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RSS secInternal Controls Over Financial Reporting - The SEC's Rules Under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
White Paper The Securities and Exchange Commission issued on June 5, 2003, its Release No.containing final rules (the 404 Rules) implementing Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The 404 Rules define standards for assessing internal controls over... [03 Jul 2008]
Regulation S-P Implicates Third-Party Service Agreements
White Paper In response to last year's Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial services legislation (the "Act"), the SEC on June 22 adopted Regulation S-P (the "Regulation"), which establishes rules to prevent disclosure of non-public personal information to... [03 Jul 2008]
PNNI Version 1.0 Signaling Security Addendum
White Paper The ATM Security Specification, Version 1.0 [SEC 1.0], specifies a collection of security services for ATM VC/VPs. The concepts and reference models for ATM security services and their impact on PNNI signaling are described in detail in the [SEC 1.0]. [03 Jul 2008]
Off-Balance Sheet Financing: U.S. and Canadian Securities Law Developments
White Paper In the U.S.the SEC has taken the lead in dictating required disclosure of off-balance sheet arrangements. GAAS, in Canada, disclosure of off-balance sheet arrangements will be dependent upon individual issuers voluntarily agreeing to follow the... [03 Jul 2008]
Securities and Exchange Commission Releases Rules of Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys Under Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
White Paper On January 29, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Release No. These Rules prescribe minimum standards of conduct for attorneys who appear and practice before the SEC in any way in connection with the representation of an issuer. [03 Jul 2008]
Life in the Post-SOX World - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: What Corporate Directors and Executives Need to Know
White Paper There can be no mistaking the basic intent of Congress and the SEC to get to the bottom of the scandals that have rocked Corporate America and to punish wrongdoers, and to minimize abuses going forward. [03 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Video Coding for Mobile Wireless Networks
White Paper The coding algorithms we are developing are based on subband decomposition using integer coeffi- cient filters, and adaptively deliver video at rates between 60K bits/sec and 600K bits/sec in accordance with the available bandwidth. [03 Jul 2008]
Trusting Software: Malicious Code Analyses
White Paper Army Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center (SEC), in support of the U.S. This paper discusses SEC’s activities - from the current, primarily manual analysis at the source code level, to plans for semi-automated tools and a... [03 Jul 2008]
Risk Management, Compliance and Technology White Paper
White Paper The SEC's vigilance keeps the US rulings in the headlines, but firms in Europe and Asia Pacific now realize they can't shrug off compliance as an issue just for their American counterparts. Regulators everywhere are tightening up and applying... [03 Jul 2008]
Choosing a Tax Advisor in Light of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
White Paper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and the SEC rules recently published under that Act, have many companies and individuals rethinking whom they look to for tax planning and tax advice. Public companies are now required to consider whether seeking tax... [03 Jul 2008]
InfiniBand* Architecture Forges Ahead
White Paper Gbit/sec wire speed connection with one-, four- or 12- wire link widths. InfiniBand Architecture utilizes point-to-point connections with a 2.5 This offers scalable performance through multi-link connections, and a host of interoperable link speeds. [03 Jul 2008]
Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001
White Paper For example Sec.that would amend the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a National Maritime Advisory Committee. This paper discusses about Port and Maritime Security Act of 2001. [03 Jul 2008]
IT's Influence on Sarbanes-Oxley
White Paper Under the current SEC rules, companies can potentially comply with Sarbanes-Oxley without any changes to IT. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is designed to protect the public from fraudulent and misleading accounting practices by regulating financial... [03 Jul 2008]
Sarbanes-Oxley and Security Collide: How Insight for CONTROL-SA by Consul Can Accelerate Your Compliance Effort
White Paper As a result of SOA, new SEC regulations were created and most became effective in late 2002 and early 2003. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOA") was enacted in 2002; born out of the stock market crisis created by the Arthur Andersen/Enron and WorldCom... [03 Jul 2008]
Case Study: ITSM in 12 Months or Less
White Paper With SOX, COSO, SAS55/78, HIPAA, BASIL2, Bill 198 loaming over every SEC regulated corporation, it is even more critical to show internal controls as quickly as possible. The hardest part of any ITSM program is demonstrating to customers and... [03 Jul 2008]
