New compliance and accounting regulations are helping to drive down the number of firms who use unlicensed and counterfeit software, according to Microsoft. However, while licensing compliance is getting better at the top, Baker said there is still...
If you are engaged by a US subsidiary in the UK, that company will be bound by those compliance rules (which include auditing and security clauses) - and therefore so will you. With the increased focus on compliance, things are about to get worse.
The word compliance means different things to different people and now it seems that - after the excesses of the tech bubble that led to so much wrongdoing - we are now in an era where stringent financial and other rules and regulations have many...
Compliance might be good for keeping lawyers and regulators happy but it's having the opposite effect on the nation's CIOs, making them more stressed; causing them to question their future as techies and siphoning off valuable budget.
Companies are choosing to spend more money this year on compliance regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, in preference to combating viruses and worms. These are the findings from the accounting firm Ernst and Young's annual security report, which...
On the first anniversary of one of the most controversial sections of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, many companies are only now starting to take stock of the huge amounts they spent on compliance - and many are starting to wonder whether it was...