Change and Configuration Management (CCM) tools and processes have become rather commonplace in today's business community as an effective way to gain control of dynamic IT environments. However, traditional change management and configuration management tools do not comprehensively address all aspects of the vast configuration details inherent in complex IT infrastructures.

As businesses have instituted internal, industry, and government mandated regulatory compliance, the need for audit data to prove conformity has also become a necessity. Configuration audit and control provides a single, independent source for enforcing and reporting on a change policy across an organization.

Read this whitepaper and learn ten key elements of a configuration and audit control solution, such as:

• Ensuring configurations meet organizational standards
• Detecting all changes across the entire IT service stack
• Capturing detailed configuration change data in a timely manner
• Auditing configuration changes independent of automated tools