Sarbanes Oxley [SOX] Compliance

“An ongoing Strategy, not a Project”

The 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002', otherwise known as 'Sarbanes-Oxley Act' is the result of a number of recent corporate fraud cases including the infamous 'Enron Scandal'. The fundamental purpose of the Act is to protect the financial interests of a company's investors. Any company with international interests must comply with the Act.

The significant legislative changes to financial practice and corporate governance regulation has implications for IT departments. All systems responsible for holding or protecting client information or funds are subject to compliance with the Act.

Whether your software is developed in-house, outsourced, or a combination of both, we can help you prepare a Test Strategy that ensures compliance and risk mitigation.

The Sarbanes Oxley [SOX] compliant Test Strategy will ensure changes to software systems go through a pre-defined and fully documented process that can be audited to determine:

What was tested,

Who tested it,

How they tested it.

The system failures found.

How failures were resolved.

When failures were re-tested and the result.

When the code was implemented into production.


Click here to view a copy of the Act.