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In the end, public companies perhaps got lucky in unforeseen ways. Many executives love to portray the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley news) as the bane of Corporate America. It's a... Read more...

He's not out of jail yet. But the Supreme Court has seemingly handed a victory to Jeff Skilling, the former CEO of Enron (Enron news), the man most responsible for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (... Read more...

A recent post at Harvard Business Online makes an interesting point: Lots of controls rise from incidents that have already occurred, even if there is little chance of an exact repeat of the original... Read more...

Nonaccelerated filers are probably still giggling about their eleventh hour gift from the Obama Administration. Recall it decided at the last minute that compliance with 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley... Read more...

Recall that Boeing ended up in something of a public relations nightmare back in 2007, when some IT compliance auditors employed by the aviation giant went to the media about some perceived lapses in... Read more...

Sarbanes Oxley was supposed to be a boon to whistleblowers. But it hasn't really worked out like that. There were some administrative rulings that resulted in a situation where the provisions were... Read more...

Security managers have to justify their projects like all other managers. And it's become a common refrain to couch their programs' benefits in the rhetoric of compliance. This has been going on... Read more...

We probably will not know exactly what the Supreme Court justices think about the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board until spring, when a decision is revealed. If you were the gambling sort,... Read more...

Recall that the FTC issued disclosure guidelines for bloggers, as part of its recent guidelines on advertising and endorsements--its first new missive on the subject in almost 30 years. Some have... Read more...

The problem with cyberthieves is that they tend to be a resourceful, fast-reacting bunch. So the Internet Security Alliance--an alliance of companies working with Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity... Read more...