The survey polled corporate officers in 47 different countries and across all industries. The top reason for the increase in funding security programs was to satisfy legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which holds executives accountable for...
While professional indemnity insurance can protect a company, directors and officers' (D&O) liability insurance can also protect company executives against personal liability suits, he says. Some regulations span all sectors, such as Sarbanes-Oxley...
If your security provisions are not up to date and there is a breach, you, the individual responsible, could face liability," he said. Recent research from Compuware revealed that a third of IT directors believe they will miss important compliance...
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. With the passing of the critical 15 July milestone for foreign...
In Perkins' view, HP's board was split between two types of directors: "guidance" directors like himself who wanted to spend board meetings concentrating on ways to beat Dell and IBM, and "compliance" directors who were obsessed with the Sarbanes...
That's something that might give the DPA as much impetus as section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which covers internal controls supporting financial reporting. The act confirms directors' duties to run their companies responsibly - something that...