VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Best practices to follow for compliance regulations

Compliance regulations and internal auditors tend to focus on a core set of typical control objectives and control activities. Control objectives specify the actions that must be performed to be in compliance with the standard or requirement. Objectives state what needs to be done, but not how to do it. For example, an objective might state, "All administrator actions on the financial production application will be reviewed on a daily basis and correlated with approved change requests."

Control activities are the set of actions that you implement in order to meet the control objective. Activities state how to accomplish objectives and describe exactly how actions are done on a periodic basis ...