The big news in this month's issue is the announcement of the winners of the fifth annual Security 7 Award. Other featured articles present tips for preventing future incidents and also explain how SOX compliance is hitting smaller public companies harder than the big guys. Read on for these great articles and more. 

This article discusses some aspects of a new regulation -- 201 CMR 17:00 -- and offers suggestions on how data security best practices can help with compliance. Companies should discuss the regulation in detail with their legal consul to examine how it affects their unique circumstances and the best course of action to be taken. 

This E-Guide will explain the new changes in Version 1.2 and how the standard will tackle emerging technologies such as cloud computing and virtualization. Specific topics include avoiding audit trouble, wireless encryption, tokenization, and more. 

This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop remediation plans. 

This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations. 

View this Webcast to explore the challenges in designing a workable change management process, defining approval workflows and to hear examples of creating audit trails for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance with respect to IT changes. 

What's arguably the single greatest barrier to the fast close has remained constant - the completion of the intercompany reconciliation process. This paper examines the issues behind intercompany reconciliation and outlines how companies can make impressive progress when they employ software solutions such as those from SAP Business Objects 

With the ever increasing compliance regulations in terms of E-mail archiving, It becomes clear that E-mail archiving is an information governance imperative. This paper presents the 3 technical challenges which should be understood when evaluating email archiving solutions 

Read this whitepaper to find out how Novell's Sentinel™ Log Management solution simplifies compliance by collecting, storing, analyzing and managing data logs from all across your enterprise. 

In August 2007, CFO Research Services launched a research program to explore the ways in which the role of the finance team has changed in recent years. This report presents the findings of our online survey of 255 senior finance executives. 

In this transcript of the webcast, TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan will discuss how you can perform Total Spend Analysis to help drive supplier consolidation, contract compliance and identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment. 

McAfee PCI Pro provides a comprehensive file integrity monitoring (FIM), audit trail and network configuration audit solution designed to help merchants and service providers quickly, easily and cost-effectively meet the following requirements of v 1.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). 

Oracle Financial Analytics provides organizations with better visibility into factors that drive revenues and shareholder value. Oracle BI Applications are powerful, pre-built solutions that enable organizations to implement more quickly, with less risk and at a fraction of the cost required to build traditional business intelligence solutions.