For most of today’s competitive business environment, it’s a manager’s cliche: “Seconds count.” But when the job is auditing an IT system, the concept applies literally.
“Having real-time access to information is absolutely critical,” says Michelle Dickman, chief executive officer of TriGeo Network Security, an IT consulting firm in Port Falls, Idaho. A post-mortem of a compliance breach, as accurate as it may be, “is not good enough,” she says. “From a compliance standpoint, good security will lead to compliance.”
