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Auditors:
IT Involvement in Sarbanes-Oxley Projects Lacking
Computerworld:
Sarbanes-Oxley is an opportunity for IT divisions hoping to
improve their reputation for ignoring business imperatives, but it seems
many are blowing the chance. At a recent conference of corporate
auditors, about half raised their hands when asked whether their
companies' IT departments were hindering SOX documentation. In one case,
IT even insisted on developing its own control framework rather than
work with the auditor. But CIOs should be warned — there are
consequences for the uncooperative. An audit manager confided that one
company pressured a CIO to resign after he claimed IT was too busy to
address outstanding audit issues.
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Gartner:
Outsourcing Drives IT Services' Growth
ZDNet:
Whether it's in-country or offshore, outsourcing was the key
ingredient in raising IT services spending by 6.2 percent last year,
according to
Gartner
. IBM led the pack — again — with a 7.5 percent market share,
followed by EDS and Fujitsu. Companies outsourced a wide range of
services, including hardware support contracts, systems integration and
application development.
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Net
Providers Set Aside Dispute to Team Up Against Spam
SFGate.com:
America Online, Yahoo, EarthLink and Microsoft managed to set
aside at least some of their differences last week in the effort to stop
spam, aka the electronic kudzu that's overtaking the information
highway. Everyone agreed that the best solution was sender
authentication, but, of course, the four major Internet providers
couldn't agree on whose solution to use. Finally, they've now agreed to
work together to create technical standards and, we hope, nip this
threat to corporate infrastructure in the bud.
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