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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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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Reports
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Mortgage Company Uses DataFlux Technology to Improve Reporting, Manage Compliance
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Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | Published: 14 Jan 2009


Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs
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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


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Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008


Numara® FootPrints Change Management: Solutions for Automating and Managing Change
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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


Bitpipe Industry Guide: Financial Services Industry
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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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