Log Management & Intelligence

SOX Deadline

Are you ready?  Forty-five percent of IT executives responding to an August poll said their companies are unlikely to meet the message retention requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley by the July 2006 deadline. 

Links & Blinks:: Sep 26, 05

• Basel II Falls Flat:: Compliance Pipeline
  

• Metrics Fall Short of Mark on Security:: Computerworld.

"Most metrics only indicate that a security program is doing the things it needs to do," said Scott Blake, chief information security officer (CISO) at Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. "It doesn't get us to a point where we have a real understanding of the risks to the data."

• Credit Card companies can keep data ID theft secret:: The Register

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