Managing compliance
Compliance settings provide you with the ability to define, monitor, enforce, and report a configuration's compliance. Compliance settings can handle the following scenarios, which all IT organizations have to deal with:
Regulatory compliance: Regulatory compliance is a key scenario in many IT organizations. Regulatory compliance requires IT organizations to specify the security and privacy policies for corporate and user data as well as for IT systems. The difficult part for IT is to enforce and report on the enforcement of the set standards. Some IT companies find it difficult to enforce these policies and rely on scripts and tools that provide results on demand.
Change verification: This scenario is used to verify a system's configuration before and after the planned changes have occurred. It allows you to confirm whether you are applying the changes to the specified systems.
Configuration drift: This scenario is very common and known to IT personnel, but most IT companies...