This new role comes at a time when regulatory mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel II, GLBA and PATRIOT Act are key contributors to driving IT direction, spending and market growth. Furthermore, these regulatory mandates have emerged as...
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...
Firms processing more than 20,000 transactions per year will be required to scan their networks each quarter and conduct annual audits of their compliance with the standards in order to qualify for certification.
According to Metzger, SAP is now undergoing half-year SOX 404 audits by its external auditor KPMG, and expects to obtain the first certification of compliance early next year. A direct reporting line to the executive board was established and an...
McAfee has announced a foray into the increasingly crowded market for products to stop data loss in businesses. McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host, or DLP Host, is a hardware and software package designed to help companies lessen the chances of their...
Security for compliance purposes has to be considered in the wider corporate context of roles and relationships (not least because when considering broader enterprise risk, you’re looking at internal controls that focus around people, rather than...