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RSS actAct now: bosses urged to meet Human Rights deadline
News One of the principle effects of the Act will be on companies who have a policy of monitoring their employees' use of email, internet and the telephone. Ian Kirby, partner at legal firm Arnold & Porter, said: "Contracts and terms of employment... [29 Sep 2000]
Hanu Software Case Study: ACT! Attachment Search
White Paper The customer develops and distributes highly functional "Recruiter friendly" software based on ACT! The objectives were to develop the ACT! Attachment search tool, which would have features to search documents and files attached in the ACT! [23 Feb 2006]
International Accounts Payable Professionals CAPP - Study Paper: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002
White Paper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is named after its primary inventors: Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Maryland), and Representative Michael Oxley (R-Ohio). The Act ensures internal controls are validated by a repeatable management assertion process... [23 Mar 2005]
ACT: A Low Power VLIW Cluster Coprocessor for DSP Applications
White Paper The ACT (Adaptive Cellular Telephony) coprocessor architecture is described and analyzed using a set of widely used DSP algorithms. Performance and power are compared to equivalent implementations on ASIC and embedded processor platforms. [23 Aug 2007]
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the FTC Safeguards Rule: Technical College Information Security Plan
White Paper The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) requires "financial institutions" as defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to protect and secure customer information such as names, social security numbers, addresses, account and credit card information. [27 Sep 2005]
Disgorgement of Compensation and Profits Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
White Paper Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the "Act"), which became effective on July 30, 2002, provides that if an issuer is "required" to prepare an accounting restatement "due to" material noncompliance with securities law financial... [19 Dec 2004]
The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002
White Paper The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) provides a framework for enhancing the effectiveness of information security in the federal government. This means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized... [23 Aug 2005]
Proposed Rules Under the Sarbanes - Oxley Act: Changes to Internal Controls, Ethics Codes, Use of Experts and Auditor Interference
White Paper These rules have been mandated by Sections 303(a), 404, 406 and 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and set out new requirements with respect to: internal controls, codes of ethics, "financial experts" on a firm audit committees, and auditor... [19 Dec 2004]
Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA): Using GuardedNet's neuSECURE to Facilitate Compliance
White Paper The importance of FISMA in the overall Electronic Government Act cannot be overstated. In fact, unless agencies demonstrate that they can meet the IT security criteria, they cannot receive a positive status on the annual report card regardless of... [23 Aug 2005]
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Implications to Oil and Gas Marketing
White Paper Created as a result of the Enron/WorldCom fallout, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) takes CEO's and CFO's to greater depths of personal responsibility and accountability for the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls. [23 Mar 2005]
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Compliance Management Framework
White Paper The act not only legislate additional controls - it significantly increases penalties. Sarbanes-Oxley (Public Law 107 - 204) is a reaction to the many corporate accounting scandals that have plagued Wall Street in recent years. [05 Jul 2006]
Reform of the Financial Services Industry - Analysis of Gramm-Bliley-Leach Act
White Paper What has changed in the financial services sector is the use of less visible strategic alliances or marketing agreements subject to the privacy disclosures required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. A broad perspective of the U.S.financial services... [27 Sep 2005]
How to Comply With the Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
White Paper The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act seeks to protect consumer financial privacy. Its provisions limit when a "financial institution" may disclose a consumer's "nonpublic personal information" to nonaffiliated third parties. [27 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998
Cheat Sheet The Act is based on a European directive which requires member states "to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data". [28 Aug 2007]
The National Archives Meets Customer Targets Set in Freedom of Information Act
White Paper The Freedom of Information Act, which came fully into effect in January 2005, gives people the right of access to information held by public bodies. In order to comply with the Act, The National Archives required a system that would provide access... [15 Mar 2006]
