TRACESECURITY EXTENDS BEST-IN-CLASS COMPLIANCE SOFTWARE WITH THE RELEASE OF TRACESECURITY COMPLIANCE MANAGER VERSION 4.5

TSCM 4.5 Provides Advanced Policy Management Capabilities and Key Features Organizations Can Use to Augment their IT Security Controls and Meet Regulatory Mandates.

BATON ROUGE, La. – (June 9, 2008) – TraceSecurity, a leading SaaS provider offering security compliance and risk management software and services, today introduced the newest version of their TraceSecurity Compliance Manager (TSCM). TSCM 4.5 is packed with improved functionality that boosts an already powerful offering including auto creation of policies and policy change management and support for Identity Theft “Red Flags,” NERC CIP Standards, and NIST. With these new enhancements, organizations from a variety of vertical industries can achieve greater security and compliance control over their network, while providing the protection and peace of mind they crave for their customers.

“The newest version of TSCM provides greatly enhanced functionality and features that strengthen the security and compliance controls of organizations,” said Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity. “Features such as the ability to create comprehensive policies on demand for numerous departments throughout an organization allow our customers to quickly and easily meet and exceed regulatory requirements. Since all components of Compliance Manager are fully customizable, customers will actually be able to use the policies in day to day operations.”

The new TSCM 4.5 version delivers on TraceSecurity’s initiative to bring best-in-class functionality to the security and compliance market and includes:

• Upgraded Policy Management features in the TracePolicy Module
  • Automatic and individualized policy creation based
    on industry specific regulations and best practices
  • Board approval of policies before distribution to employees
  • Policy change management and maintenance
  • Full customization of policy distribution and
    acceptance expiration
  • LDAP support for enhanced user authentication
• Expanded Compliance Support
  • ID Theft “Red flags” support. Evaluate your alignment with published regulations addressing the ID Theft "Red Flags" rules ensuring that your ID Theft prevention program properly addresses all requirements.
  • NERC CIP Standards support. Assess and recommend controls to meet the requirements defined in the NERC (North American Electrical Reliability Corporation) Cyber Security Standards CIP 002-1 thru CIP 009-1.
  • National Institute of Standards (NIST 800-53) controls support. Assess and recommend controls to meet the various requirements defined in the published standard.
• Improved functionality and feature set
  • Ability to create patch alerts to notify individuals of network patches needed
  • Fortified system scanning with ARP sweeps to locate live machines on your network
  • Additional controls and security over assets on IT network

For more information about TSCM 4.5, visit www.tracesecurity.com or call (877)-275-3009 for demo.

About TraceSecurity
TraceSecurity is a leading provider of security compliance and risk management solutions. The company helps organizations of all sizes to achieve, maintain and demonstrate security compliance while significantly improving their security posture. Key to TraceSecurity’s success is the company’s comprehensive patent-pending methodology that helps clients address all of the critical components of a successful security compliance program: people, process and technology.

TraceSecurity delivers its solutions through an integrated software-as-a-service platform backed by expert professional services and comprehensive security awareness programs. The company’s flagship offering, TraceSecurity Compliance Manager, is the first comprehensive solution to automate regulatory compliance audits, board level reporting, policy management, vulnerability assessment, and employee education and testing. The company’s expert professional services include onsite security audits and social engineering. The security awareness programs include an exhaustive set of standard offerings as well as custom designed courses. With over 800 clients, TraceSecurity supports the risk management and security compliance efforts of organizations in financial services, healthcare, energy, government and other regulated sectors. For more information, please visit
www.tracesecurity.com.  

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