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- Best Practices Under Audit Standard 5
- With the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX in 2002, companies have had to dramatically ramp up regulatory compliance efforts. Based on the guidance they received, companies began factoring a compliance check list into almost every process. Controls were designed to cover every possible source of financial reporting fraud. As...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Audit, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Best Practice, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Government, Finance
- White papers 2007-10-23
- Privileged User Monitoring and Audit (PUMA)
- Striking the right balance between operational necessity, potential user misuse and fraud, and the costs associated with regulatory guidelines like SOX and OMB Circular A-123, can be the difference between a profitable quarter and staff layoffs. To achieve the most effective and least costly solution, organizations need a risk-based approach...
- Tags: Audit, Oversight Systems, Monitoring, Financial Accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Finance, Regulations, Government, Management
- White papers 2007-05-18
- Segregation of Duties in the Real World: Risk-Based SoD Management With Continuous Monitoring Lowers Compliance Costs
- Segregation of duties in the real world demands top-down management that eliminates financial risk without adding overhead costs or extinguishing ERP-fueled efficiency gains of the last decade. Fortunately, auditors and government regulators are moving beyond simple checklists of mandates to advocate a risk-based approach to SOX compliance and internal controls....
- Tags: Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Compliance, Monitoring, SOX Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2006-08-09
- A Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Program That Saves Cash: Link Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements to Business Improvement
- Successful quality - and compliance - is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Technology-enabled quality in the "Financial data factory" provides a significant ROI. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance becomes a dimension of overall quality. Continuous inspection solutions from Oversight Systems provide precise results and a leveraged environment for...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Oversight Systems, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2006-07-25
- The 2005 Oversight Systems Report on Corporate Fraud
- From the conviction of former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers to the acquittal of HealthSouth's Richard Scrushy, corporate fraud continues to make headlines. Four years after Enron's collapse, financial integrity remains a key issue for corporate America. This paper surveys certified fraud examiners to report the trends, risks and major concerns...
- Tags: Oversight Systems, Fraud, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Litigation, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-10-20
- IT's Role in Financial Process Improvements
- Those responsible for financial business processes face increasing pressure from government regulation such as Sarbanes-Oxley. Growth and corporate acquisitions only increase the risk of financial errors by creating complex environments with multiple ERP systems running throughout most companies. CIOs and IT managers can improve financial business processes...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Oversight Systems, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers
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- Guide for Financial Management Oversight
- To meet the new requirements for performance-based management while ensuring adherence to the CFO Act and other financial management legislation, it was recognized that a comprehensive but flexible approach for effective financial management oversight was needed. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive model of effective financial...
- Tags: Financial, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-03-24
- Congress is working to make electronic surveillance more pervasive
- Oversight already exists for such programs.It's called the Constitution of the United States of America.RE: Retroactively making companies immune to litigation for illegally providing any government agency with information...Do we really want to set this kind of precedence? Does anyone really think we should let the government break the...
- Tags: Litigation, U.S. Congress, Andy Moon, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
- Financial Management Solutions
- Financial management within a Federal agency touches every organizational element and every person as they do their jobs. The systems used to support financial management in an agency provide financial visibility and accountability to Congress and to executive oversight organizations. From supporting the preparation and justification for the agency budget,...
- Tags: BAE Systems Plc., Financial, Agency, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-05-04
- How Cisco IT Controls Building Security Over the Enterprise WAN
- Several years ago, faced with security systems that were deployed with minimal or no managerial oversight, Cisco began searching for a way to address the need to centralize and improve physical security management. The solution had to address global integration and service and support issues for all these disparate system,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., WAN, Security
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators' Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
- The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. In 2003, Washington State Patrol recognized that its voice systems required significant upgrades. The existing phone systems also lacked productivity features such as voice mail -...
- Tags: Network, Agency, Cisco Systems Inc., Washington State Patrol, Networking
- Case studies
- Oversight System Sentinel (zip)
- A proactive real-time protection against spyware, adware, keyloggers, hidden dialers, malware, trojans, browser hijackers, and other malicious programs. System Sentinel defends your PC via a safety network of all System Sentinel's and updates spyware definitions daily with no annual fees. When new spyware is detected on one computer it automatically...
- Tags: Registry, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2007-07-18
- VA Senate Joint Oversight Committee hearing today
- V.A. Sec. Jim Nicholson is testifying before the Senatesjoint oversight hearing. Hear it online (CSPAN-3) NOW at: http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30 The audio and video feed will also probably be available in C-SPAN archives later._______________________Equifax has offered special services to everyone who may havebeen affected http://www.equifax.com/siteAssets/productPromos/veteran/veteran_breach.htmTo place an initial fraud alert on...
- Tags: U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- An introduction to enterprise data storage
- Storage often doesn't get the attention it deserves in system architecture, which can turn out to be a costly oversight. George Ou provides this overview to get you up to speed on the various storage subsystems and the devices and technologies that support them. This download is also available...
- Tags: George Ou, Storage, Hardware
- Download resources 2007-04-16
- Lock it down: Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your Web applications -- Part 3
- What about parameters?I've read other articles that list use of SQL parameters as the best way to prevent SQL injection attacks. Was this a simple oversight in your article or are parameters not really that effective?
- Tags: Programming languages, Scott @..., Web application
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Federated Model for Consolidated Pipeline Forecasting and Reporting (Level 100)
- Diversified enterprises often need tailored Customer Relationship Management CRM solutions to reflect the sales processes in different Lines Of Business LOBs. However, consolidated pipeline forecasting and reporting are essential for managing the overall enterprise. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the federated model can help business units operate...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Forecasting, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Digital Media, Sales, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- How do you keep your sys admins from stealing company secrets?
- Administrators of your network resources are valuable assets, assets that keep services flowing to your business users. But proper oversight of these critical employees, and their network rights and permissions, is an important part of security management. by Tom Olzak
- Tags: Security, Administrator, Password, Network, Information Technology, Network Resource, OWASP, Networking, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Error Correction
- I recently failed to award points correctly to Oz. Thus, this is 1000 points as an apology for that oversight.Awwww, and I was having so much fun giving you a hard time!I thought it was just a joke due to my reply, honestly I didn't takt it seriously though. :)I...
- Tags: BFilmFan
- Q&A 2005-03-18
- FBI chief blames computers for privacy flap
- interesting...So basically he's telling congress, "We have a big reporting problem, but there's nothing we'll let you do about it". Also, the Sentinel upgrade mentioned, has NOTHING to do with the rest of the article. He specifically said they would not be putting all the data there, so there will...
- Tags: Litehouse, FBI, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
- The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. The agency needed to improve service effectiveness of state crime labs and reduce support requirements for telephony system. The challenge was to enable interoperability with other...
- Tags: Agency, Cisco Systems Inc., Washington State Patrol, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies 2005-11-01
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