REGULATORY OVERVIEW:

Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandates that executive management of a publicly held company report on and evaluate the effectiveness of their internal controls over financial reporting, and provide an additional report from independent auditors attesting to the effectiveness of the companys internal controls and procedures for financial reporting. In addition, Sarbanes-Oxley mandates reporting of material events that impact company assets, such as exposure of trade secrets and intellectual property.

Publicly held enterprise require a comprehensive data security solution that:

• Safeguards the integrity and confidentiality of financial information
• Protects valuable electronic assets such as intellectual property and trade secrets from exposure
• Provides audit capabilities for data access and separation of duties
• Delivers cost-efficiency through minimizing burdens on IT resources and infrastructure.

VORMETRIC SOLUTION:

Vormetric Data Security Expert provides a comprehensive, centrally-managed solution that enables corporations to enforce control objectives for financial information and applications across a widespread, heterogeneous IT infrastructure. The integration of advanced host and application protection, context-aware data access control, high-speed data encryption, and audit, alert and reporting capabilities enables companies to protect the integrity of the enterprise IT environment, enforce security policies that define the appropriate use of information, and audit all attempts to access that information. In addition, the Data Security Expert can enforce change management policies for all servers and workstations that process sensitive information.