Dating to the early days of computing, garbage-in, garbage out (GIGO) is a simple idea used to describe how computers when fed flawed or nonsensical data would dutifully perform their tasks and produce results that were equally flawed or nonsensical. Over the years as computers have become more sophisticated and intelligent, the focus on GIGO has waned.
Though the notion of GIGO may have been relegated to obscurity in recent years, it has a role to play in helping explain the damaging consequences that bad data can play in a company's efforts to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).
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