The solution follows the trend of adding reporting functionality for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and Department of Defense Directive 8100.2, among other government regulations.

The solution comes with predefined business rules for such requirements and checks the data against those rules to determine conformity to the regulations.

The channels on which the data was running, encrypted data, and other access points that were available but not on the system might be of interest to a government audit.

Siemens is licensing its compliance technology from AirTight Networks.

While assuring compliance with multiple regulations is becoming more important, Richard Conover, research director for Current Analysis, said the quality of the embedded business rules that check for compliance are only as good as the person who wrote them.