Consul, BMC Team Up

At this stage, Consul's InSight Security Manager and BMC's Control-SA products are not being integrated, but the duo kept bumping into each other on customer deals, said Koen Bouwers, CEO of Consul, Herndon, Va.

"It makes sense because Control gives users authorization, and we measure what people actually do and what they are allowed to do against security policies and regulatory compliances," Bouwers said.

Dubbed as a marketing alliance, the companies will offer centralized enterprise security administration and auditing. Over time, Bouwers is not ruling out integration between the products.

In addition, Consul added a regulatory compliance module for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to its InSight Security Manager product.

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The module offers out-of-the-box policy templates, a dashboard and dozens of reports tailored to security and management activities related to Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed by Congress in the wake of last year's corporate accounting scandals, requires that public companies disclose more financial information than in the past and holds corporate officers more accountable for the accuracy of those disclosures. Sarbanes-Oxley's impact on IT comes from its requirements that company executives certify the effectiveness of the internal controls they use for financial reporting.

Down the line other regulatory modules will be added, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which aims to protect consumers' personal financial information held by financial institutions, and the USA Patriot Act, an antiterrorism bill that expands the government's surveillance authority, and ISO 1799, a data privacy best practices guide, said Marc van Zadelhoff, vice president of marketing strategy at Consul.