Using Compliance Guardian Online
As a standards based system, Compliance Guardian Online may be operated via your favorite browser. It is not dependent on any browser-specific features. A scan can be configured and run in as few as four steps once your account is set up. Compliance Guardian Online is ready to go in seconds, eliminating IT complexity with no additional hardware and software installations needed.Steps to Run Your First Scan
- Get an account by visiting https://complianceguardianonline.com/account/signup (a free, 14-day trial is available)
- Create a New Scan
- Select your Test Suite
- Set your Spider (Scanner) Rules
- Save and Run your Scan
Screenshot of a report run in Compliance Guardian Online.[/caption]Test Suites
The Test Suites can help Identify many quality issues including but not limited to:- Broken links
- Missing files or images
- Misused alternative text
- Misused company names or logos
- Words or phrases used that are outside of website usage policy.
- Privacy
- Accessibility
- Secure Sensitive Information/Operational Security
- Site Quality
- Custom
All Testing is Not the Same
When testing static content, just grabbing the HTML may be good enough, but for dynamic content and some static content you need to test what is rendered by the HTML. With this in mind, Compliance Guardian Online provides the ability to test what is rendered via our embedded browser (a headless browser) that operates automatically with no user interactions. By testing this way, you are assured a complete test. Compliance Guardian Online does not stop there, of course. You can test much more than HTML, including Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, zip files, and much more. Simply refer to the user guide for a full list of supported document formats. Beyond web servers, you can test SharePoint Online sites as well.Web Applications
Web applications provide a more complex testing challenge. All of the above support is required, but the targets for validation cannot be found without some predefined user interaction. Some examples include: searching for a flight, booking a hotel room, adding a product to a shopping cart, or logging into a bank account. This complexity is handled in Compliance Guardian Online by simply recording your transaction and then playing it back. The steps to run your scan are almost identical except for one item. Instead of entering a starting URL to scan you enter the transaction script to run. Absolutely no programming knowledge is required. You literally record your steps and then these can be played back over and over as required for monitoring.Summary
Public brand and reputation management are important facets of any organization. Poor accessibility, privacy violations, leakage of secure sensitive information, improperly configured web servers, or applications that are not accessible by all can impact a company and brand negatively if not monitored. This is a topic that is in the news almost daily, with large companies experiencing brand damaging events as well as threats such as the HeartBleed security vulnerability. It is also almost proverb at this point that monitoring content helps to deter visitor violations of the acceptable use policies of a website. Monitoring is a sure way to mitigate exposure to risk from a company and brand perspective, and Compliance Guardian Online can assure that your site works how you want, for whom you want, and that all of your content complies with internal and external policies.Guidelines
- WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
- Usability: http://guidelines.usability.gov/
- Section 508: http://www.section508.gov/Section-508-Of-The-Rehabilitation-Act
- Privacy and Data Protection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy
Resources
- AvePoint Privacy Impact Assessment System: https://www.privacyassociation.org/resource_center/avepoint_privacy_impact_assessment_system
- Compliance Guardian Online: https://complianceguardianonline.com/account/signup