Compliance and IT Controls

Process Management: With sophisticated workflow and process control capabilities, Quest solutions help you control and track changes to your production applications and system configurations from the time the change is requested through its automated deployment to production. With these solutions, you can implement effective, secure, and auditable internal controls over the change management process.

Release Management: Quest solutions fully automate the deployment of approved changes to production systems. With these solutions you can rest assured that the right changes are deployed to the right systems at the right times.

Change Audit: Quest solutions provide a complete, detailed audit trail of all changes to your systems. Moreover, Quest provides mechanisms for detecting any unauthorized or unrecorded changes that result from circumventing the normal change management process. With these solutions, you can easily audit all changes to production systems to ensure that they comply with your change policies.

Change Rollback: Your risk from implementing bad or inappropriate changes to production systems are dramatically reduced with Quest solutions. For those rare cases where a problematic change makes it into production, however, Quest provides the ability to quickly roll the system back to its previous good version. With Quest solutions, you can be assured of a quick and effective recovery from the deployment of a problematic change.

Quest Value
Change Function	Value	PeopleSoft & Oracle E-Business	Windows & Unix Configuration
Process Management	Complete process management including automated workflow
	Complete process management including automated workflow for changes to Microsoft Group Policy
	Extension of Microsoft Group Policy to Unix and Linux configuration settings
Release Management	Automated, controlled, auditable deployment of changes to production
	Automated, controlled, auditable deployment of changes to Group Policy
	Extension of Microsoft Group Policy to Unix and Linux configuration settings
	Extension of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to Unix and Linux
Change Audit	Complete audit trail of all changes
	Ability to detect unauthorized or unrecorded changes to production applications
	Complete audit trail of all changes to Microsoft Group Policy
	Ability to detect unauthorized or unrecorded changes to Microsoft Group Policy
	Detailed tracking, reporting and alerting of changes to Active Directory including Group Policy
	Extension of Microsoft Group Policy to Unix and Linux configuration settings
	Extension of Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to Unix and Linux
Change Rollback	Automated rollback to previous good version
	Automated rollback to previous good version
	Extension of Microsoft Group Policy to Unix and Linux configuration settings

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  White Paper: Meeting Change Management and Monitoring Compliance Needs in a Microsoft-Centric Network

  In this white paper writen by the leading industry expert on Windows Security Randy Franklin Smith, we look at the main compliance frameworks, identify the common change management and monitoring elements, and call out important differences where they occur.

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  White Paper : Best Practices Guide for the Compliance Lifecycle

  This white paper provides an overview of how organizations can assess their environment and controls, audit and alert on unapproved user activity, and develop remediation procedures.

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  White Paper: Meeting Your Compliance Goals with Stat® for PeopleSoft

  This datasheet explains how the Quest Compliance Suite for Windows helps you baseline who has access to critical data; track what was done with that access; alert the business when access is inappropriate and consolidate information to provide a single compliance view.

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• Next Steps

  • Change Control for Compliance:
  • Change Control for PeopleSoft: Stat for PeopleSoft
  • Change Control for Oracle E-Business Suite: Stat for Oracle E-Business Suite

• Additional Resources

  • Webcast: Stat for Oracle E-Business Suite Web Demo (Bi-weekly Sessions)
  • Webcast: Stat for PeopleSoft Web Demo (Bi-weekly Sessions)
  • White Paper: Implementing Federal Information System Controls with Quest Products

• Related Solutions

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