COAST Empowers Organizations to Enforce
Accountability for Online Compliance
Executives gain framework for reducing online risk
Ottawa, ON - January 12, 2005 - COAST Software, a
leading provider of online compliance technologies, announced today
COAST Compliance CentralTM the industry's most comprehensive
application for managing online compliance. In direct response to
market demand for better control over online risk, COAST Compliance
Central delivers a platform that empowers management to enforce
compliance by allowing organizations to discover, register, monitor and
resolve online compliance violations from within a common environment.
Together with COAST's online compliance management best practice, the
company delivers an end-to-end framework for reducing risk and building
trust online.
"The amount of unstructured data in an
organization is mounting every day. This represents a major exposure
for both private and public sector companies, as they struggle to
maintain control of risk." explains Dr. Larry Ponemon, Founder of the
Ponemon Institute. "Organizations require a process for managing
compliance with both legacy and new content. An end-to-end framework
for managing compliance like the one COAST is offering empowers
organizations to implement a process for reducing management and
organizational risk."
Developed for Fortune 2000 and government
organizations, COAST Compliance Central? allows customers to:
- Gain visibility into content in violation of
compliance standards
- Automate the identification and management of
compliance issues
- Prevent violations before they result in fines,
litigation or negative media attention
- Enforce standards across the organization
- Effectively manage the process of compliance
management from detection through to resolution
"Compliance is a primary concern in our client
base" explains Paul Proctor, Security and Risk Strategies Analyst with
Meta Group. "Organizations need to address business processes and use
supporting technologies to prevent, detect and manage compliance
issues."
Consistent with COAST's enterprise software
strategy, the release of COAST Compliance Central makes COAST an
innovator in the business of online compliance management, delivering
the only best practice-based framework for governing online compliance
violations from discovery to resolution.
"Organizations recognize that online compliance is
an important issue, but there is still a lot of work to be done to
implement effective compliance processes," explains Paul Saunders,
president and CEO, COAST Software. "With COAST Compliance Central,
management now has a framework for identifying compliance violations
and seeing them through to resolution. This puts them in control of
organizational content and reduces risk associated with online data."
COAST Compliance Central can be purchased
directly or through the company's international reseller channel.
About COAST
COAST Software provides executives, compliance
officers and privacy teams with compliance management solutions that
discover, register, monitor, analyze, report and manage compliance of
online properties. Established in 1996, the company is a pioneer in the
development of online compliance management solutions, serving Fortune
2000 and government organizations with over 100,000 licensed users
worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.coast.com.
Nicole Gibson COAST Software Inc. (613) 567-3201
(ext.237)
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