Information Assurance

How NETconsent helps

Information assurance and IT security remain a high priority for all organisations. The requirement to comply with regulatory requirements is essential to avoid reputational damage, fines and the high costs of litigation and putting issues right.

• NETconsent electronic acceptance of policies at logon is a practical, reliable and cost-effective method of ensuring that all users read and accept information assurance and other IT usage policies.
• NETconsent records information about when a user accepted or declined a policy, so there is no ambiguity over policy version control.
• NETconsent shows how well someone has understood each policy by testing their understanding, thereby identifying knowledge gaps and enabling risk mitigation.
• NETconsent reports show who has yet to sign up to policies, without the administrative burden associated with more traditional record keeping.
• NETconsent provides real-time management reports showing overall levels of compliance, crucial to improving IT governance.

Information Assurance Challenges

The pace of technology keeps accelerating and it is becoming impossible for IT departments to keep one step ahead of new security threats through technology enforcement alone. The growing importance of social networking applications such as facebook, twitter and wikis are changing the computing habits of employees and opening up ever more threats to information assurance.

Information Assurance Requirements