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How Bloombase helps enterprises achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)? |
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Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, passed in year 2002, has huge impact on how enterprises are managed. The Act requires enterprises to change their business processes to adapt to assurance of finance data at high integrity. The act was enacted in response to numerous accounting fraud caused by enterprise top-management that arose public attention worldwide.
Sarbanes-Oxley RequirementsSection 103"an evaluation of whether such internal control structure and procedures... include maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer... [and] provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary.
Section 302"the signing officers have dsclosed... all significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the issuer's ability to record, process, summarize, and report financial data and have identified for the issuer's auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the issuer's internal controls."
Section 404"each annual report... contain an internal control report, which shall... contain an assessment... of the effectiveness of the internal control structure and procedures of the issuer for financial reporting."
Bloombase SolutionBloombase created Bloombase security platform to address compliance requirements suggested by Sarbanes-Oxley to maximize IT governance in corporations. Bloombase security appliances protect encryption and digital signing keys inside hardware security module (HSM) from disclosure and duplication. Bloombase appliances encrypt data with NIST certified AES, 3DES and DES cryptographic algorithms and create digital signatures to assure data integrity by international standards including Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), X.509 digital certificates and W3C XML digital signature.
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