Sustaining SOX Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs

To successfully sustain SOX compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Management must be more accountable and aware of the need for a continuous and proactive operational risk management environment that recognizes the links between its technology infrastructure, business processes, reputation, compliance, and internal controls. It is vital that Tripwire configuration audit and control solutions are used as an integral element of sustained compliance initiatives.