Compliance Testing

What is compliance testing? Its basically an audit of a system carried out against a known criterion. A compliance test may come in many different forms dependant on the request received but basically ca be broken down into several different types:

• Operating Systems and Applications: A verification that an operating system and/or applications are configured appropriately to the companies needs and lockdown requirements thus providing adequate and robust controls to ensure that the Confidentiality Integrity and Availability of the system will not be affected in its normal day to day operation.

• Systems in development: A verification that the intended system under development meets the configuration and lockdown standards requested by the customer.

• Management of IT and Enterprise Architecture: A verification that the in-place IT management infrastructure encompassing all aspects of system support has been put in place. This is to ensure effective change control audit business continuity and security procedures etc. have been formulated documented and put in place.

• Interconnection Policy: A verification that adequate security and business continuity controls governing the connection to other systems be they Telecommunications Intranets Extranets and Internet etc. have been put in place have been fully documented and correspond to the stated customer requirements.