GRC Roll-up: GRC Magic Quadrant Revisited, Symantec Finally Delivers Enterprise Vault

GRC just keeps ticking away. By far the biggest thing this week was the release of this year’s Gartner’s GRC Magic Quadrant, while Symantec finally kept good on its earlier promise and released Enterprise Vault 10. Android security was also under the microscope by Lockout, while Lockpath and Network Frontiers released a badly needed dictionary of compliance. We also looked at process and policy in e-Discovery.

Magic Quadrant Identifies GRC Market Trends

Earlier on in the week, we managed to get our hands on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in the GRC space. A lot of reports and research come out every week in GRC, but this has to be the big one, in that it gives users an idea of where vendors stand in terms or products.

It also takes a look at the market, which this year Gartner says shifted from a tactical focus on regulatory compliance to a wider focus on enterprise risk management.

It also identified a number of specific trends, including the fact that many companies, in light of recent developments in areas such as finance, are looking for better corporate governance and compliance, with many of those looking to consolidate all their GRC functions onto one platform.

Companies are looking at this through the perspective of one standard, such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, or across regulations applied to specific industries. Interested in more?

Symantec Releases Enterprise Vault 10

Symantec (news, site) kept good on its promise earlier in the year to release Enterprise Vault 10 this week, which comes with data loss prevention technology to analyze Microsoft Exchange email content and metadata to help determine the archiving and retention strategy for all messages. 

For social media-obsessed companies, it also comes with the ability to archive social media interactions for compliance and e-Discovery purposes.

The Data Classification Service feature of Enterprise Vault 10 uses Symantec’s data loss prevention technology to classify the email and assign an appropriate archiving and retention policy.

Classifications can also be used as filters to speed the search and review process for e-Discovery. Additionally, customers who have implemented Symantec Data Loss Prevention can share classification policies to simplify the automated classification of information. There’s far too much in this to give it justice here, so check it out at the Symantec website.

LockPath, Network Frontiers’ Compliance Dictionary

Here’s something that has been badly needed for a long time, but, given its subject matter, will needed to be updated regularly. Network Frontiers, which came up with the Unified Compliance Framework (UCF), and GRC vendor LockPath, have jointly released the first online Compliance Dictionary.

The Compliance Dictionary is the only lexicon of its kind, online or off, the companies say. The idea behind it is that, while there are many glossaries associated with specific compliance regulations, each uses its own definitions and terminology, which can add to the confusion, cost and wasted time associated with managing compliance.

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GRC just keeps ticking away. By far the biggest thing this week was the release of this year’s Gartner’s GRC Magic Quadrant, while Symantec finally kept good on its earlier promise and released Enterprise Vault 10. Android security was also under the microscope by Lockout, while Lockpath and Network Frontiers released a badly needed dictionary of compliance. We also looked at process and policy in e-Discovery.