Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Kit

Sarbanes Oxley News

05/12/2008
Sarbanes-Oxley Deadlines Delayed! Surprised?
John Bace VP and Research Director The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has extended the deadlines for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance. The move gives accelerated filers an additional five months and non-accelerated filers three m...
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05/12/2008
Stay Grounded in the Reality of Compliance Demands
Lane Leskela Research Director, Gartner|G2 A resounding misnomer in the public debate on the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements is that Section 404 compliance is the only "real" hurdle. This position is similar to irresponsibly adv...
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05/12/2008
Prosecuting Corporate Crime: Too Much, Too Late
French Caldwell Vice President, Gartner Research U.S. prosecutors Thursday filed criminal indictments against former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling on 35 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading. At the same time the Securities and Exchan...
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05/12/2008
Too Expensive? Too Much Time? Too Bad!
John Bace VP and Research Director This article, (subscription required) a page one story in Tuesday's (2/10/04) Wall Street Journal, reports that some U.S. companies are whining about how expensive and how much time it's taking to meet Sarban...
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Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requires that:

Enterprises have an enterprise wide security policy;

Enterprises have enterprise wide classification of data for security, risk, and business impact;

Enterprises have security related standards and procedures;

Enterprises have formal security based documentation, auditing, and testing in place;

Enterprise enforce separation of duties; and

Enterprises have policies and procedures in place for Change Management, Help Desk, Service Requests, and changes to applications, policies, and procedures.

To meet these needs the Sarbanes Oxley Kit, which comes in four editions (Standard, Silver, Gold, and Platinum) contains:

Security Policies (all editions);

Threat & Vulnerability Assessment Tool (all editions);

Business & IT Impact Questionnaire Risk Assessment Tool (all editions);

Safety Program Template (all editions);

Disaster Recovery Template (all editions);

Outsourcing guide update to reflect what you vendors need to do (all editions);

Software tool to monitor key data files (all editions);

Internet and IT Job Descriptions (Silver, Gold, and Platinum Editions) and;

IT Service Management Template (Platinum Edition).

Sarbanes Oxley Resource Compliance Kit

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requires that:

To meet these needs the Sarbanes Oxley Kit, which comes in four editions (Standard, Silver, Gold, and Platinum) contains:

Sarbanes Oxley Resource
Compliance Kit