 IT Compliance Whitepapers
From The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and IT whitepaper to Making Compliance Work for You with Lifecycle Management, this section provides a library of IT compliance related whitepapers from industry experts.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted in July 2002, is a direct result of the large accounting scandals that had occurred over the last several years and shaken the very foundation of public accounting. Simply stated, Sarbanes-Oxley is a reform designed to institute stricter financial controls and reporting, and assure that financial reports are written in easily understandable language. Reports must be certified by the CEO, the CFO and signed off by independent auditors. As the full name, the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act implies, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is designed to avoid the rampant irregularities and surprises that were discovered in 2001 and 2002, and to protect the public and investors.
Although Sarbanes-Oxley is designed for public companies with a market capitalization of over $75 million (U.S.), the expectation is that small companies will not be exempt, specifically companies with the hopes of eventually going public. As a result, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is going to have far-reaching repercussions for many companies and its effect will be felt throughout the organization across many different departments.
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Business is growing increasingly reliant on IT. In fact, IT now has the power to make or break business. Users no longer accept interruptions in service due to outages, coding errors or routine system maintenance. As the world grows increasingly connected, and as more and more businesses seek to meet customer needs through automated services, IT is under pressure to respond more adeptly to business strategy.
To keep pace with these rising expectations, a different kind of IT department is required – one that is proactive instead of reactive, one that can anticipate and solve problems before they occur and adapt to changes in the business as quickly as the business itself must. To significantly improve the delivery of IT services across the enterprise, organizations are increasingly turning to best practices.
The Capability Maturity Model (CMMI), Six Sigma, Cobit and ITIL are all frameworks to bring consistency, measurement and rigor to IT shops. But which process or methodology is the right one? The answer is ITIL, the most widely used best practice framework for IT service management in existence.
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In addition to the traditional challenge of remaining competitive, today’s organizations must also contend with growing regulatory requirements just to remain in business. Fortunately, while achieving regulatory compliance is challenging, doing so can offer significant -- and unexpected -- rewards for the enterprise. Mastering compliance gives companies a springboard to a myriad of process improvements that can directly and positively impact a company’s bottom line.
In this white paper, we examine regulatory compliance requirements, their effects on IT and the business, and how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) can not only simplify the task, but can also turn those compliance efforts into a powerful business advantage.
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C-level business executives, SOA architects, developers, controllers and compliance managers are all searching for ways to secure the crucial data in their IT systems. Regulated industries such as finance, manufacturing and healthcare, as well as anyone outsourcing intellectual property, are especially vulnerable. In addition, organizations are under increasing pressure to prove to a host of regulatory compliance bodies that they have control of their IT shops. Aldon HUALMUH with built-in Identity Access Management (IAM) for application development provides crucial structure to internal data access without hindering business development efforts.
In the old days of dumb terminals, protecting applications and data wasn’t so daunting. To secure an application, an administrator simply limited access, confining users to a set of menu options. Today, however, a number of trends are making security the buzzword of the day, and for good reason.
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