Existing software applications that monitor systems for compliance requirements and business rules focus on the security and regulatory requirements for information technology systems (e.g., BindView, SecureInfo). These applications monitor the organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure that they are compliant with permissions, security, back-up and recovery etc. They do not provide a real time view of the data in systems across the enterprise. A few business systems do provide reporting and other monitoring tools but they have limited capabilities. Most organizations rely on individuals to review transactions and information in business systems and enforce regulations. However, this leaves the organization vulnerable to reacting to issues rather than monitoring for them before there is an issue. Desktop automation and integration solutions such as Cicero provide a compliance monitoring solution that is easily configurable and deployable and that can monitor multiple applications across platforms to provide real time compliance monitoring.
Solutions such as Cicero empower corporations and government agencies to effectively monitor information in applications and business systems to meet compliance and security requirements. Ideal for Compliance Managers, Risk Managers, and other compliance-related positions, they provide real time information for identifying compliance issues and enforcing regulations. It does this by using business rules that actively monitor system transactions and publishes the results in a variety of formats.
The compliance monitoring solution such as Cicero contains a set of rules that are configured and installed on desktops or servers within an organization. These rules contain the business processes that need to be monitored in applications and the actions that need to occur once these rules are invoked such as notifying a compliance officer or reporting information on a web page. The results can be completed in real time or saved to a database for further analysis. In addition, it effectively takes existing applications and extends them to provide real time information that can be displayed in a new application such as a website or a service such as Rich Site Summary (RSS). Finally, organizations can also provide the capability to display several applications in a composite view that show the results of monitoring each business system.
- Proactively monitor systems to identify potential problems before they occur
- Create rules to monitor specific compliance and business requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, and Basel II
- Enforce business rules such as those required in banking and securities transactions
- Report on information in business systems in real time
- Publish data on web pages, RSS, email notifications, or in other applications such as reporting systems
- Augment applications and create composite views of systems for compliance
- Deploy at the desktop and/or server level and monitor any application running on any platform including Windows, 3270, Java, Web, Citrix and others
- Store data in a database for future analysis
- Reduces the need to review data in business systems by providing the information that is needed based on rules
