IT's Role in Successfully Managing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Leading CTOs and CIOs on Communicating with Management, Reducing Risks, and Controlling the ... (Inside the Minds)

IT s Role in Successfully Managing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance is an authoritative, insider s perspective on the ins and outs of SOX compliance. Featuring CTOs and CIOs representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for managing, monitoring, and measuring Sarbanes-Oxley success. Fundamentally a financial legislation enacted in response to corporate and accounting scandals, the first step to satisfying Sarbanes-Oxley requirements lies in partnering with finance and developing a crystal-clear vision for compliance. Driven by the need to not only meet SOX specifications but also to improve the overall audit program, these authors offer tips for minimizing potential risk and optimizing the compliance process by using prior knowledge to design compliance into existing and new systems. From ensuring an evolving vision to laying a solid foundation to instituting high control components, these authors explain how to establish a leadership position in managing SOX compliance. This book provides valuable insight for those striving to institute the checks and balances and accountability integral to SOX success while simultaneously remaining disciplined about business continuity by leveraging existing processes in place to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley. Highlighting the importance of taking a proactive approach to compliance rather than sitting on the sidelines, these authors demonstrate how to tackle Sarbanes-Oxley using a long-term perspective. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of the leading technology minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to improving IT governance by communicating with management, reducing risks, and keeping an eye on costs in short, by running IT like a business.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world s most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters include:

1. Rajan Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Swift & Company - "Reducing Risk Associated with Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance"

2. Norbert J. Kubilus, Chief Information Officer, Sunterra Corporation - "Implementing General Controls for System Management"

3. Andrew C. Maychruk, Director, Information Technology, The PrivateBank and Trust Co. - "Keeping Up with Both Quality Control and Regulatory Compliance"

4. Arlin B. Goldberg, Executive Vice President, Information Technology, Eschelon Telecom Inc. - "Key Components of Achieving Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance"

5. Bennett Cikoch, Vice President, Information Technology, Midas International Corporation - "Setting the Tone for IT Compliance"

6. Ed Eskew, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Bernard Chaus Inc. - "The Cost of Compliance"

7. Jorge de Cardenas, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, American Campus Communities Inc. - "Involving the Entire Team in the Process"

8. John Petrone, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Autobytel Inc. - "Using Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance as an Enabler of High-Speed Growth"

9. Jay Bahel, Chief Information Officer, Brunswick New Technologies - "Managing Compliance and Developing New IT Processes"