The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was passed in 2002 in response to a series of high-profile corporate scandals and requires that public companies implement internal controls over financial reporting, operations, and assets; these controls depend heavily on installing or improving information technology and business methods Written by one of the most visible personalities on the tech-biz side of the SOX discussion, this highly readable, engaging book provides a clear road map for integrating SOX compliance into the fabric of everyday IT infrastructure and business practice Shows the reader how to leverage and use service-oriented architecture (SOA), a set of technologies that enables interoperation of heterogeneous computer systems, to achieve the level of internal controls over IT that SOX mandates

Taylor, Hugh, 1965-

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley Pub.

Spectrum Publications

Halsted Press

United States, United States of America

1., Auflage, New York, NY, 2006

New York, New York State, 2006

Indianapolis, Ind, ©2006

Hoboken, 2006

June 2006

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Includes bibliographical references
Cover -- About the Author -- Credits -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Challenge and Opportunity of Sarbanes Oxley -- On a Practical Level, This Concerns IT -- How This Book Is Organized -- Who Should Read this Book -- Summary -- Part I: The SOX Paradox -- Chapter 1: The Trouble with DexCo -- The Curse of the Adequate Performer -- A Functioning Mess -- Financials -- Hidden Time Bombs -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Agility: The Do or Die Mandate -- New Blood, New Operating Environment -- Moving Targets -- Agility for DexCo -- The Wilde Plan -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Ramifications of SOX 404 -- SOX 404" Definition and Context -- SOX 404 and the Audit Process -- COSO at DexCo -- Why Linda Is Freaking Out -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Between SOX and a Hard-Coded Place -- Internal Controls and Business Processes -- Internal Controls and Information Technology -- The FAST Track to a Control Breakdown -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Commit to COBIT? -- This Is a High Stakes Game -- Strong Medicine: COBIT -- COBIT and Sarbanes Oxley -- Summary -- Chapter 6: COBIT for Mere Mortals -- The 80/20 Heat Map -- COBIT Implementation -- COBIT and People -- Paying the Tab for COBIT -- DexCo's Next Steps on COBIT -- Summary -- Chapter 7: The Pain of SOX -- COSO, COBIT, and Controls versus the Wilde Plan -- The Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition -- Non-Compliance Penalties -- Jim's Big Question -- Summary -- Part II: Thinking Outside the SOX -- Chapter 8: What If? -- Back at the Ranch -- Defining Agile Compliance -- Compliance as a Driver of Positive Change -- It's Happened Before -- Summary -- Chapter 9: The Technology of Agile Compliance -- Living Up to Potential -- The Four Questions -- Mapping Business Process and IT Architecture -- Is Flex-Acturing Under Control? -- Will It Flex? -- Answering Dale's Questions -- What It Will Take to Flex -- Summary -- Chapter 10: The Organization of Agile Compliance -- Challenges to the Agile, Compliant Organization -- Requirements for an Agile, Compliant Organization -- Summary -- Chapter 11: The Walk-Through -- Dale's Need for an Overview -- Troubleshooting -- Summary -- Chapter 12: The Pay Off -- Investing in Agile Compliance -- Return on Agile Compliance Investment -- Realizing the Wish List -- Summary -- Part III: Actually Doing It" For Real -- Chapter 13: IT Solutions for Agile Compliance -- Defining SOA -- The Promise of SOA for Agile Compliance -- Even a Magic Bullet Can Kill You -- Summary -- Chapter 14: SOX Software -- Taxonomy of SOX Packages -- Putting the SOX Packages into a Compliance Architecture -- SOX Packages and the DexCo Agile Compliance Plan -- Summary -- Chapter 15: FAST or Slow? -- SOA for DexCo's Agile Compliance -- The Agile Compliance Scorecard -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Conclusion -- Consensus -- The Future -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Resources -- Government Bod
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