The compliance imperative

HiSoftware has released Version 4.0 of Compliance Sheriff, the company’s enterprise compliance automation solution. V. 4.0 includes a new compliance performance management console consisting of scorecards, reports and dashboards; an application program interface (API) for enterprise system integration; and the addition of several new out-of-box compliance checkpoints for privacy (HIPAA), accessibility (Section 508, WCAG) and search engine optimization (SEO).

HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff provides content compliance testing, monitoring and reporting against standards-based policies for privacy, accessibility, social computing, brand integrity, site quality and operational security (OPSEC). It enables organizations to automate compliance with their Web governance standards for public sites, intranets, extranets, blogs, wikis, forums, etc., as part of their best practices and corporate risk management strategy.

Key new features of HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff V. 4.0 include:

• Compliance Insight, a new compliance performance management console consisting of scorecards, reports and dashboards);
• an API for integration with clients’ enterprise systems such as enterprise content management (ECM), Web content management (WCM), e-mail, etc.);
• the addition of several new out-of-box compliance checkpoints for privacy (HIPAA), accessibility (WCAG and Section 508) and search engine optimization (SEO) for easy adoption of new regulatory standards and best practices; and
• more than 50 new checkpoints including PII/HIPPA checks for family status, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, zip code, age, address, and more.

These new features are also included in HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint, the company’s integrated solution for the Microsoft SharePoint Server platform.