Remote Government IT Tips
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IT Solutions to Aid in HIPAA Compliance
Is your health care organization still working on HIPAA compliance? You're certainly not alone, and in recent years various IT and network security specialists have produced solutions specifically to aid health care providers in reaching hippa it compliance.
One industry leader that should definitely be considered is Symantec. They are the industry leaders in security software and have amassed a lot of experience dealing specifically with HIPAA compliance.
For more information on Symantec's HIPAA solutions, see:
http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/industry/healthcare/article.cfm?articleid=1896&EID=0
For more general information on reaching HIPAA compliance, you should certainly check out the resources of HIPAA.org:
http://www.hipaa.org/
SOX Compliant IT Solutions
Are you trying to figure out how to automatically get SOX IT compliance for your systems? Then you should get a software package to take care of the remote IT compliance question for you.
ManageSoft keeps and audit trail of your IT software installations so that you don't have to. If you use their software for you IT software deployment needs, it'll also perform automatic software updates for security purposes as well as keep track of licenses of all software on all of your systems, so it could make more than you audit life that much easier.
KnowledgeStorm is Only a Breeze for Remote Government IT
If you're a government agency searching for a solution to your remote government it administrative needs, you've probably run across KnowledgeStorm's technology indexes. If so, you should consider that they are woefully incomplete with regards to remote system administrative software indexing, as they are omitting several industry leaders, including Symantec's pcAnywhere and NetworkStreaming's SupportDesk Pro and AccessDesk products.
Depending on the size of the organization, your budget, the types of systems the organization is running, and whether your employees are local or mobile, the right remote administration for your government IT needs will differ. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, so make sure you explore all the possibilities before committing.
SOX Compliance Software
Companies are still struggling to comply with the ramifications of the Sarbanes/Oxley Act of 2002. Fortunately, there are now software solutions that will enable your company to easily be SOX compliance.
KeyMark, Ketera, Serena TeamTrack, and others offer process management and team accounting management solutions that aid your organization in maintaining your SOX compliance in the event of a 404 audit.
Money spent on a sox IT compliance solution could end up saving your company money and embarrassing publicity, so it's well worth looking into.
How to Check a Remote System for Hotfixes
Although frustrating, an important aspect of a sysadmin's job is to ensure that all the machines under his jurisdiction are up to speed with the latest security hotfixes. This can be especially troublesome in mobile corporate groups or in remote government it where the computers in question are moving or geographically separated.
Fortunately, to check whether a hotfix has been installed on a remote machine, you don't need any special remote it compliance software, but can simply rely on a built in system command.
cmdinfo \\
will spit out the list of hotfixes on a remote system, and:
cmdinfo /ht:
will check ask the remote system whether it has a particular hotfix.
Of course, for this to work the remote system must be online, but that problem cannot be fixed by anything short of a pestering phone call.
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