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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

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ALSO CALLED: SOX Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404, Section 404, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley
DEFINITION: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SOX) is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise. The act is administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sets deadlines for compliance and publishes rules on requirements.  … 
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The Changing Rules for Secure File Transfer on the IBM i
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WEBCAST: New regulations and changing enforcement policies are making compliance for System i users more difficult than ever. This webcast provides tips for creating an effective encryption strategy and reducing complexity of compliance and data security.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2009


Change Management: Reduce the Chaos by Taking Control
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WEBCAST: This webinar discusses the challenges in designing a change management process, defining approval workflows, and conforming to IT governances such as Sarbanes-Oxley and SAS70. It also shows you how quickly Numara FootPrints Change Management helps effectively change, ensure compliance in IT, as well as other functional areas of your business.
Posted: 19 Feb 2009 | Premiered: 19 Feb 2009


Numara® FootPrints Change Management: Solutions for Automating and Managing Change
sponsored by Numara Software
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to explore the challenges in designing a workable change management process, defining approval workflows and to hear examples of creating audit trails for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with respect to IT changes.
Posted: 28 Mar 2008 | Premiered: 28 Mar 2008

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SARBANES-OXLEY COMPLIANCE DEFINITION (continued): …  Sarbanes-Oxley is not a set of business practices and does not specify how a business should store records; rather, it defines which records are to be stored and for how long. The legislation not only affects the financial side of corporations, it also affects the IT departments whose job it is to store a corporation's electronic records. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act states that all business records, including electronic records and electronic messages, must be saved for "not less than five years." The consequences for non-compliance are fines, imprisonment, or both. IT departments are increasingly … 
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