Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Many companies are struggling with their initial compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This Act has forced all public companies to analyze and document their process of creating and managing corporate financial information. For some companies, SOX has caused them to adopt entirely new internal business processes.Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley relates to identifying users and controlling their access to sensitive information and applications. Despite its importance, this section actually does not prescribe any particular technologies or procedures that must be adopted. Many companies have begun to look to the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) framework published by the IT Governance Institute to provide the details to support the required IT controls assessment and design activities to meet Sarbanes-Oxley. SOX and User Provisioning Previous articles Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: SunTrust Banks May Not ...
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