Customers

Here are some of our many customers who rely on CA to provide a unified view of risks and compliance across their organizations.

State Agency

One state's human services agency oversees more than 50 county departments and works with thousands of community-based service providers, all of which had handled their own compliance efforts. The agency turned to CA to streamline its risk and governance projects.

Challenges

  • Comply with 50 HIPAA rules and 20 state IT security policies.
  • Track adherence to policies and regulations across disparate departments and service providers.
  • Assess the agency's overall compliance levels.

Solution: CA GRC Manager

  • Aggregates policies related to various regulations and internal security and governance mandates.
  • Centralizes information from disparate departments and service providers to provide a more complete view of the agency's risk posture.

Read the “Smart Enterprise article: A Better Handle” for more information.


Power Company

A major power company runs more than 80 plants throughout the U.S. and follows standards set by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). NERC is responsible for ensuring the reliability of the bulk power system in N.A. and is subject to oversight by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and governmental authorities in Canada.

Challenges

  • Comply with NERC reliability standards.
  • Standardize governance procedures and centralize information across plants.
  • Control mounting expenses associated with maintaining multiple control environments.
  • Avoid substantial NERC penalties for non-compliance—up to $1 million per day.

Solution: CA GRC Manager

  • Manage compliance with the NERC mandates and other external regulations and internal policies.
  • Proactively mitigate risk through a unified view across all of its plants, the company can drill down into the state of NERC compliancy at the plant level.

Read this white paper for more information on developing a sustainable NERC compliance program.

Read this article entitled “How Governance, Risk and Compliance Helps One Company Avoid Million-Dollar Fines.”

Read this white paper to learn how to leverage CA solutions for an effective NERC compliance program.


CA

CA is one of the world's largest independent software companies. We rely on CA GRC Manager for our own governance initiatives.

Challenges

  • Comply with a broad range of regulations and internal policies that come with having operations in 45 countries and customers in virtually every country in the world.
  • Streamline processes that had resulted in the monitoring of hundreds of controls for Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations.

Solution: CA GRC Manager

  • CA automated and centralized its key compliance processes and reduced the cost of testing controls by 50% for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

For more information, read this Technology Brief by CA's Sumner Blount: “Reducing Cost and Complexity with Global Governance Controls: CA halves the cost of testing IT controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with unified processes.”