Like it or not, the clock is ticking for non-US companies that need to be compliant to one of the most talked-about elements of the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act established in 2002. A direct reporting line to the executive board was established and an...
On the face of it, there seems to be little for the security industry in Sarbanes-Oxley, which aims to make corporate accounting more transparent, or in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which deals with health care...
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...
There are other frameworks in the pipeline as part of the 27000 series. There are also frameworks for the risk assessment element that Lobel describes. You can adopt a compliance-based approach and tick every box in the Sarbanes Oxley rule book, or...
Some regulations span all sectors, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the US public accounting legislation that was introduced in 2002 after the Enron scandal and impacts any international firm with a stock exchange listing in the US.
Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other laws will force CEOs to invest in back-end systems. In regard to radio frequency identification tag technology for inventory control, IDC said: "By year-end...