MetricStream Announces Integration with the UCF to Help Customers Harmonize....

MetricStream Announces Integration with the UCF to Help Customers Harmonize and Rationalize IT Controls

Due to government regulations on aloofness and aegis that accept emerged in contempo years to aegis chump advice and ensure accumulated accountability, acquiescence and controls accept become axial to planning, designing and advancing administering of IT systems for CIOs and IT executives. To abode this issue, MetricStream has partnered with Network Frontiers to bear its Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) - a absolute database that maps and harmonizes added than 2,500 IT ascendancy statements to added than 400 regulations, standards and frameworks, anchored with MetricStream’s bazaar arch Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) solutions.

Through this partnership, MetricStream audience will be able to accommodate the amount and administer the cutting aggravation of IT acquiescence by standardizing on a accepted set of controls that map to all the regulations and action mandates they charge to accede with. Now accessible as a hierarchical dataset aural the MetricStream IT-GRC application, the UCF leverages the commonalities active through assorted regulations, standards and guidelines in adjustment to rationalize IT controls and adapt them for simple implementation, testing and monitoring.

MetricStream’s IT-GRC band-aid streamlines a advanced ambit of IT activities including managing IT policies, tracking IT assets, assessing and responding to IT risks, implementing IT controls, barometer and advertisement acquiescence with the IT controls and authoritative requirements, acquainted and responding to incidents and threats, managing IT bell-ringer risks and performance, business chain planning and advancing IT auditing. By carrying the UCF agreeable chip with its solution, MetricStream will added enhance the ROI barter acquire from an chip IT-GRC arrangement by accouterment a unified and bright appearance of all-around IT authoritative requirements and how to accommodated them.

The UCF includes controls from a array of regulations and guidelines, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Basel II, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), NASD Manual, HIPAA, CMS, FERC Security Program, NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), FIPS 191, GAO Financial Audit Manual, IRS Revenue Procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, FFIEC, NIST COBIT and ISO 27002.

“Network Frontiers has created a reliable advice architectonics based on absolute acknowledged reviews of the UCF ascendancy mappings to the accurate sources. This will accommodate our barter the affirmation that their acknowledged liabilities and accident exposures are limited, while they account from a workflow and accord apprenticed IT-GRC arrangement delivered by MetricStream,” says Gaurav Kapoor, CFO and General Manager at MetricStream.

“Fortune 1000 companies baddest MetricStream to accommodate their GRC processes into a accepted basement eliminating silos, standardizing processes and convalescent collaboration," said Craig Isaacs, CEO of Network Frontiers. "MetricStream barter can now account from the UCF by abbreviation resources, time, and costs associated with deciphering IT acquiescence requirements and advice them into controls and ascendancy activities. This chip band-aid will aswell accord barter a clear bright appearance into the accompaniment of their IT babyminding affairs and area they charge to focus for bigger accident and acquiescence management.”

About MetricStream
MetricStream is a bazaar baton in Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Quality Solutions for all-around corporations. MetricStream solutions are acclimated by arch corporations such as Pfizer, Philips, NASDAQ, UBS, SanDisk, BP, Subway, Fairchild Semiconductor, Hitachi and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf in assorted industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Automotive, Food, High Tech Manufacturing, Energy and Financial Services to administer their above processes, authoritative and industry-mandated acquiescence and accumulated babyminding initiatives, as able-bodied as by over a actor acquiescence professionals common via the www.ComplianceOnline.com portal. MetricStream is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and can be accomplished at www.metricstream.com.

About Network Frontiers
Since 1992 Network Frontiers has developed ground-breaking accoutrement to abutment IT best practices with a appropriate focus on authoritative compliance, metrics, systems chain and governance. Dorian Cougias, architect and Lead Analyst, is a common apostle at technology conferences and has authored abundant online autograph and books, including The Compliance Book and the award-winning Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center. Network Frontiers was afresh cited by advice technology analysis and advising aggregation Gartner as one of their 5 arch Cool Vendors in Risk Management and Compliance for 2009.

The Unified Compliance Framework (UCF) is Network Frontiers' flagship product. By absorption on commonalities above regulations, standards-based development, and simplified architectures, the UCF supports a cardinal access to IT acquiescence that reduces cost, banned liability, and leverages the amount of compliance-related technologies and casework above the enterprise. The UCF's agreeable and alignment is the absolute aftereffect of Network Frontiers abysmal compassionate of IT regulations and standards and decades of acquaintance consulting for clients, publications, and vendors in the mission-critical IT arena.

The UCF was created by Dorian Cougias and his analysis partner, Marcelo Halpern of the all-embracing law close Latham and Watkins, which oversees all acknowledged aspects of the UCF. More advice can be begin at www.unifiedcompliance.com.