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Some of direct or indirect benefits of ITIL/ITSM for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) 404:

1. Sarbanes Oxley Act or SEC give no clear guidance for IT, so most of the CIO will enable the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), to ensure that their processes for supporting financial data are sound.

2. Sarbanes Oxley Act is about assessing risk. While risk assessment is an element of ITIL, it isn’t the framework’s primary focus.

3. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires only that companies establish controls over the systems relating directly to financial reporting. ITIL, Cobit and other frameworks for IT help companies put in place general controls for IT a good thing to have, but much broader than the narrow scope required by law. (more…)

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Download Free ITIL (Information Technology and Infrastructure Library) Maturity Assessment Report Templates. This Template could be used as part of your SOX/Sarbanes Oxley Assessment for IT Readiness

This ITIL Assessment Report focusing on ITIL area such as: Service Desk, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Service Level Management. The result of this report which contain observation and finding result explained below, such as: (more…)

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