Saturday, December 10, 2005

A Gaping Hole In Compliance Efforts


Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance regulations, companies have gone to great lengths to ensure they’re not breaking the law when it comes to information security and reporting.

But in spite of their best efforts, the vast majority of organizations have left a gaping hole in their compliance efforts by ignoring the database and database administrator (DBA).

At the heart of this issue is a very important question that many CIOs, CFOs and CEOs of large enterprises should be asking, but aren’t: Who controls the data? If they were, they would realize that the person with the greatest unimpeded power over their data integrity is the administrative-level DBA.

See full Article.