SARBANES-OXLEY WILL MEAN BIG CHANGES FOR BOTH auditors and the companies they audit. The former now will be required to certify a company’s internal controls and will no longer be able to use certain ...

The increasing number of hours devoted to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, along with the COVID-19 pandemic, have accelerated the need to use technology and automation to cope, according to a new survey.

Two decades after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, public companies are spending more time and money trying to comply with SOX requirements, despite the increasing use of technology to automate the ...

The purpose of the Sarbanes Oxley Act is to prevent fraudulent accounting practices in publicly held corporations. Congress passed SOX in 2002 after a series of accounting scandals duped stockholders ...

Because Sarbanes-Oxley doesn’t specify IT controls in detail, most auditors are using COBIT to evaluate SOX IT compliance. But COBIT itself provides only control objectives; it’s up to IT managers and ...

MENLO PARK, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Protiviti, a global consulting firm and recognized leader in internal audit, risk management, and technology consulting, today ...

There’s nothing more unpleasant than a root canal, except maybe an audit of your IT operations. Yet with regular audits being a component of regulations such as PCI and SOX, there’s no escaping them.

Sarbanes-Oxley is the most sweeping legislation to affect publicly traded companies since the reforms during the Great Depression. CIOs should follow Gartner’s four-phase approach to meet compliance ...