This paper begins by exploring why SOX compliance continues to be so difficult when it is treated as an annual project rather than a continuous process. Then the paper discusses how Likewise Enterprise can help your company make the shift to continuous compliance for identity and access management in a mixed network. Likewise joins Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X computers to Active Directory, providing the basis to assign each user a unique ID for authentication, authorization, and monitoring. Likewise also includes group policies for non-Windows computers so that you can centrally manage their security settings in the same way as Windows computers.
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Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley IMPROVE SOX COMPLIANCE Abstract WITH CENTRALIZED ACCESS CONTROL AND AUTHENTICATION Experts have been advising for some time that companies should change the way they approach Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and after a few trips through the . With Likewise Enterprise, you annual audit cycle, company leaders are coming to understand why. It no longer get one user, one ID - even in makes sense to treat SOX compliance as a recurring project that needs to be mixed networks. accomplished repeatedly at a particular point in time. A better approach is to . Integrate Linux, Unix, and Mac integrate the principles of compliance into regular business processes so that computers into Active Directory compliance shows up 365 days a year - not just the day the auditor comes. for role-based access control. This paper begins by exploring why SOX compliance continues to be so difficult . Authenticate Linux, Unix, and when it is treated as an annual project rather than a continuous process. Then the Mac users with the highly paper discusses how Likewise Enterprise can help your company make the shift to secure Kerberos 5 protocol. continuous compliance for identity and access management in a mixed network. . Achieve separation of duties on Linux and Unix by using Likewise joins Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X computers to Active Directory, providing sudo group policies. the basis to assign each user a unique ID for authentication, authorization, and . Control access to sensitive monitoring. Likewise also includes group policies for non-Windows computers so resources. that you can centrally manage their security settings in the same way as Windows computers. . Enforce security settings across the enterprise. . Monitor and audit security-related events such as denied sudo commands and failed logon attempts.