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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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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance White Papers (View All Report Types)
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Fast, Affordable SAP for Mid-market Chemicals: Advance your Business Agility
sponsored by Atos Origin
WHITE PAPER: This product brochure highlights how mid-market Chemicals companies now have a full SAP solution specifically designed for them through the collaboration of Atos Origin and SAP. The solution is a rapid implementation of SAP and ongoing support services with per-user pricing that fits the budget of this target market.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


Secure and Compliant Collaboration and Access
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As part of its comprehensive security framework, IBM offers a broad, unified array of integrated access authorization and identity management solutions that enable organizations to secure their collaboration and access processes in alignment with their overall business needs.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Deliver Effective Governance for Identity and Access Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Organizations should consider a thorough approach to IAM governance that meets the requirements of discovering, documenting and analyzing user access; establishing a process for user access governance; ensuring that constraints help manage business conflict; enforcing policies; and continuous monitoring.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Mining the Cloud to Ease the Enterprise Compliance Burden
sponsored by VeriSign, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at some common regulations (SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, Basel II, and NERC) and presents the argument for in-the-cloud authentication as the most advantageous response to access control related requirements. It also presents a practical solution for complying with these regulations.
Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009


DATA ARCHIVING The first Step toward Managing the Information Lifecycle
sponsored by Dolphin Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best?practices approach to an effective, long?term ILM strategy.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009


Emerging Opportunities for Accounting Firms in a Changing Economy
sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER: In this research report, we examine five of the critical issues that are creating new opportunities for the accounting profession and nine key strategies for obtaining competitive advantage.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


The Information Governance Imperative
sponsored by RSD
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how information governance is becoming more important in today's business world and learn why your organization needs to implement an information governance strategy today and how to go about implementing one.
Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Aug 2009


Understanding Data Governance ROI: A Compliance Perspective
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009


Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report - An Update on Global Security Threats and Trends
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The Cisco 2009 Midyear Security Report presents an overview of Cisco security intelligence, highlighting threat information and trends from the first half of 2009. It also includes recommendations from Cisco security experts and predictions for how identified trends will evolve.
Posted: 23 Jul 2009 | Published: 23 Jul 2009


Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards
sponsored by Information Builders
WHITE PAPER: A new standard file format, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), for submitting financial reports to the SEC in the United States is being mandated for June 2009. Both the creation of, and reporting from XBRL, are functions performed by the same new tool described in this paper.
Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009


Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is required to manage complex multivendor infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation.
Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009


Building a Best-Run Finance Organization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009


Improving Intercompany Reconciliation For A Faster Close: Driving Financial Excellence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009


A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Strong data security to protect critical assets: A focus on security yields compliance for free
sponsored by Thales
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers thought leadership to help you address challenges surrounding information security and compliance issues. It will also introduce you to the value and importance of a hardware security module as a key part of any successful information security program.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009


The HIPAA Solution: Meeting the Security Standards Set Forth in Section 164
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Meeting the requirements of HIPAA requires most businesses to set up strong process, methods and controls to assure auditors that security and integrity of Protected Health Information is assured. This whitepaper outlines solutions that support secure processes as dictated by HIPAA.
Posted: 31 Mar 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009


Addressing Compliance Initiatives with Center for Internet Security Benchmarks
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper details the background you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. You'll learn about the benchmarks specified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which are often used as a starting point for creating a compliance initiative.
Posted: 30 Mar 2009 | Published: 30 Mar 2009


Banking on Confidence: 5 Core Competencies of Compliance
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to learn how Rothschild Bank in Zurich has achieved banking and financial reporting regulatory compliance by getting a handle on change and getting down to basics - the five core competencies of compliance.
Posted: 30 Mar 2009 | Published: 30 Mar 2009


Buyer’s Guide for Compliance Solutions
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This document presents an overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB), and Health Insurance Portability & Accountability (HIPAA). It then translates these mandates into identity management requirements and challenges; defines and describes the reference model, and applies the reference model to the mandates.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009


Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs
sponsored by Tripwire, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: To successfully sustain compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Check out this white paper to learn how Tripwire solutions enable organizations to achieve and sustain SOX compliance.
Posted: 08 Jan 2009 | Published: 08 Jan 2009


Get the Facts on Information Availability: Essential Data Protection, Recovery and Resiliency for Banks
sponsored by Vision Solutions
WHITE PAPER: The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of value-producing business uptime.
Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008


Reduce Compliance Costs with an Integrated Program of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Learn how an integrated program of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) can reduce compliance costs, build valuable stakeholder trust and increase transparency for improved decision making and opportunity awareness.
Posted: 20 Nov 2006 | Published: 20 Nov 2006


Bitpipe Industry Guide: Financial Services Industry
sponsored by Bitpipe
WHITE PAPER: The Financial Services Industry pervades the entire IT industry. This guide gets you up to speed on essential financial areas such as Regulatory Compliance, Business Continuity, Financial Reporting, and Financial Management.
Posted: 22 Jan 2006 | Published: 22 Jan 2006

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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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