How does Absolute help with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance?
A. Absolute’s products help organizations comply with Sarbanes-Oxley in 2 distinct ways: Section 1102 of Sarbanes-Oxley mandates stricter controls on financial data. Since ComputraceComplete provides information on who is accessing information, when and on what machines, ComputraceComplete can assist companies in placing stricter controls on access to financial data. Secondly, Sarbanes-Oxley mandates that organizations report all company assets. Since IT assets are a significant portion of any organization’s total asset base, ComputraceComplete is necessary to help assist in locating and reporting on those IT assets – especially those hard to track remote assets. All asset information collected with ComputraceComplete is stored, forming historical records and an accounting audit trail. Storing historical records of assets and providing an audit trail is also mandated under Sarbanes-Oxley.
A. Absolute’s products help organizations comply with Sarbanes-Oxley in 2 distinct ways: Section 1102 of Sarbanes-Oxley mandates stricter controls on financial data. Since ComputraceComplete provides information on who is accessing information, when and on what machines, ComputraceComplete can assist companies in placing stricter controls on access to financial data. Secondly, Sarbanes-Oxley mandates that organizations report all company assets. Since IT assets are a significant portion of any organization’s total asset base, ComputraceComplete is necessary to help assist in locating and reporting on those IT assets – especially those hard to track remote assets. All asset information collected with ComputraceComplete is stored, forming historical records and an accounting audit trail. Storing historical records of assets and providing an audit trail is also mandated under Sarbanes-Oxley. Since Gartner claims that standard asset tracking tools only account for approximately 60% of IT a
