Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools

Whether you work for a publicly traded or pre-IPO company or an IT consultant, you are familiar with the daunting task of complying with The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. You have no doubt seen the hour and dollar estimates for compliance go up and up. Now, you can re-grain control. This ground-breaking, fully integrated book and bootable, live CD provide all of the information AND the open source tools required for you to achieve SOX compliance the cheap and easy way. This book illustrates the...
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Whether you work for a publicly traded or pre-IPO company or an IT consultant, you are familiar with the daunting task of complying with The Sarbanes-Oxley Act. You have no doubt seen the hour and dollar estimates for compliance go up and up. Now, you can re-grain control. This ground-breaking, fully integrated book and bootable, live CD provide all of the information AND the open source tools required for you to achieve SOX compliance the cheap and easy way. This book illustrates the many Open Source cost-saving opportunities that public companies can explore in their IT enterprise to meet mandatory compliance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. This book will also demonstrate by example and technical reference both the infrastructure components for Open Source that can be made compliant, and the Open Source tools that can aid in the journey of compliance. Although many books and reference material have been authored on the financial and business side of Sox compliance, very little material is available that directly address the information technology considerations, even less so on how Open Source fits into that discussion. The format of the book will begin each chapter with the IT business and executive considerations of Open Source and SOX compliance. The remaining chapter verbiage will include specific examinations of Open Source applications and tools which relate to the given subject matter, and last a bootable live CD will have fully configured running demonstrations of Open Source tools as a valuable technical reference for implementation of the concepts provided in the book.