How Control Compliance Suite works

The Control Compliance Suite Console lets you create written policies and distribute these policies to users. The console also lets you track user acceptance of policies and manage exceptions to those policies. The console also lets you define evidence of your compliance with the policies.

When you define policy evidence, you use the Control Compliance Suite Console to create jobs to collect data from your network. Servers and other computers on your network are referred to as assets. Data collectors process jobs and gather information from the assets on your network. Collected data is stored in an SQL Server database. The collected data can then be evaluated against the parameters that you specify. Evaluation results are stored in the database. These evaluation results can be reviewed within the Control Compliance Suite Console. Evaluation results are also synchronized to the reporting database immediately or on a schedule that you specify. The evaluation results in the reporting database can be processed into reports and printed or displayed in the dashboard.

Figure: Using the Control Compliance Suite outlines the steps to install, configure, and use the Control Compliance Suite.

Figure: Using the Control Compliance Suite

Installing and using the Control Compliance Suite