Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

Chapter 1. Starting the Compliance Process for Small Businesses

This chapter covers the initial planning tasks to be worked through before you start with your compliance program. The recipes for this chapter are as follows:

• Planning the scope of the basic compliance program
• Understanding possible controls for compliance
• Evaluating the efforts of controls
• Bringing it all together into a basic compliance program

Introduction

All companies must adhere to regulatory requirements and as such, require a compliance program. For example, when a company trades, it must adhere to its local tax requirements; even a small company must have certain controls in place to ensure it remains compliant. Also, if a company accepts credit card payments, it must have controls ...