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Polaris Navigator Features & Benefits

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Dashboard and Reporting
Risk and compliance scores are viewed by regulation, policy, framework and by role based on your actual polices and configuration data
Features Benefits
  • Compliance and Risk Gap Analysis and traceability Analysis to regulations and frameworks
  • Drill down of compliance by asset, regulation, and control
  • Risk Analysis on asset by Likelihood (Control Strength) and Impact (i.e. Criticality, Value, Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)
  • Automated and semi-automated test feeds and well as manual survey-based test feeds
  • Comprehensive metrics cover people, process and technology
  • Trend analysis with notification though multiple channels (i.e. email) on critical risks or control failures (by reason, location, custodian)
  • Dramatically raise risk and compliance visibility
  • Quantify and qualify the state of compliance
  • Decrease risk, improve analysis, remediation and decision-making
  • Increase efficiency of root cause analysis
  • Customize risk and control calculations with a flexible risk equation builder
Workflow and Repository Management
Role-based workflow for work assignment, with review, escalation and status
Features Benefits
  • Repository of documents for evidence collection and storage in the database
  • Role-based access to evidence
  • Daily workspace for all users
  • Reduce cycle time and redundancy
  • Improve efficiencies and access
  • Facilitate reuse of test results across multiple audits
Multi-tiered People Process and Asset Repositories
Features Benefits
  • Customizable multi-tiered hierarchy by such classifications as geography, organizational unit, business process, application, technology, criticality, legislation, framework
  • Facilitate views from multiple perspectives
Automated, Continuous Risk and Compliance Audits and Assessments
Automated testing through adaptors that integrate with elemental configuration monitoring and management systems
Features Benefits
  • Integrates with Symantec ESM, NetIQ Vulnerability Management and Microsoft SMS out of the box
  • Integrates with any data source using Brabeion's custom adaptor SDK
  • Integrates questionnaires/surveys for controls (IT controls for which there is no integration, manual controls (BCP, data handling, employee background checks etc) and physical controls or an automated test with human review
  • Ability to define and customize tests
  • Exception and Remediation Management – Automatic identification and prioritization of remediation requirements – Temporary or permanent exception to accept the exposure on control (residual risk = accepted risk) – Tracking the issues by asset, custodian, status and date
  • Demonstrate value and return on investment in days, not years
  • Integrate with security, network and infrastructure solutions, Threat and Vulnerability Management, IT Configuration and Change Management and Network Systems Management platforms
  • Dramatically lower cost and cycle time
  • Enhance and formalize audit, risk and compliance programs
  • Strengthen relevance of control design and adherence to polices
Surveys for Self-Assessments
Features Benefits
  • Automated questionnaires/surveys for people (roles), processes (business and manual processes) and technology controls library of over 600 pre-built queries based on ISO27002 standards
  • Defines and customize tests, following a streamlined workflow
  • Distributes surveys to participants via web-based interface, with email notification, url links to questionnaires, authentication and tracking
  • Provides automated general computer controls collection for dashboards, reporting, remediation and exception management
  • Demonstrate value and return on investment in days, not years
  • Dramatically increase accountability, support governance mandates, lower cost and cycle time
  • Strengthen relevance of control design and adherence to policies
  • Streamline remediation, exception and prioritization process; lower costs, risk and accelerate time to compliance

 

Sidebar: Webcasts

Brabeion and PricewaterhouseCoopers:
Overcoming PCI Challenges

Is your organization struggling to meet PCI requirements and deadlines? Is the fear of potential fines making it difficult to run and maintain a successful program?

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Brabeion and Forrester Research:
Critical Steps to Automating your IT GRC Programs

The crucial need to effectively manage and mitigate increasing IT risks - coupled with the rise in government-mandated and industry-specific regulations, demand that organizations unify their governance, security, risk and compliance silos to provide a holistic view of the IT environment.

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OCEG and Brabeion Webinar:
Controls Based Risk Management:
From Auditable Policy to Understanding Risk

A unique approach for risk calculation utilizing a "component-based" method leveraging three pieces of information - Requirement, Standard and Control. Get a new understanding of risks from a compliance and controls perspective, enabling fuller visibility into business impacts and decision making.

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Rolling with the Changes:
Managing Compliance in a Continuously Evolving Industry

Financial Services companies face many obstacles due to the regulations and requirements they have to face. Learn how leading commercial and consumer finance company, CIT, has evolved their compliance programs.

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Brabeion in Enterprise:

Featuring: Chevron-Texaco, Brabeion, and Forrester Research analyst Michael Rasmussen. Learn how to efficiently and effectively identify controls to achieve compliance with GLBA, PCI, FFIEC, SOX and HIPAA.

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