Security Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance: Authorization, Authentication, and Access [Paperback]

Dennis C. Brewer (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764598384 | ISBN-13: 978-0764598388 | Publication Date: October 21, 2005 | Edition: 1

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires public companies to implement internal controls over financial reporting, operations, and assets-all of which depend heavily on installing or improving information security technology
• Offers an in-depth look at why a network must be set up with certain authentication computer science protocols (rules for computers to talk to one another) that guarantee security
• Addresses the critical concepts and skills necessary to design and create a system that integrates identity management, meta-directories, identity provisioning, authentication, and access control
• A companion book to Manager's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (0-471-56975-5) and How to Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (0-471-65366-7)

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From the Back Cover

Your step-by-step guide to creating authentication processes that assure compliance

To comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, you must design an information technology infrastructure that can protect the privacy and access integrity of your data, particularly online, while not restricting business activity. This book shows you how to do that, explaining what you need to know every step of the way.

• Recognize eight concepts that constitute privacy of information
• Apply the security basics—identification, authentication, authorization, access control, administration, auditing, and assessment
• Use features already present in directory technology, directory schema, and meta-synchronization to improve security profiles
• Integrate a security architecture into legacy, current, and future applications
• Create security domain definitions that will stop data predators cold

About the Author

Dennis C. Brewer is IT Security Solutions Specialist for the Information Technology Department of the State of Michigan. His responsibilities include identity management and privacy protection initiatives for the state.

Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764598384
• ISBN-13: 978-0764598388
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,636,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dennis C. Brewer is a graduate of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration. His varied career path includes both military, government, and private sector experience.

His military service includes the U.S. Navy having attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer; Interior Communications Electrician with sea service on the USS Bristol and USS Prairie, and nearly six years as a Navy Recruiter for the Milwaukee Recruiting District stationed in Houghton, Michigan.

After serving in the Navy, he attended Michigan Tech and co-enrolled in the Senior Army Reserve Officer Training Course and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1981 in the Combat Engineer Branch, U.S. Army Reserve. The Governor of Michigan accepted his transfer request to serve the Michigan Military Establishment in the Michigan Army National Guard where he served honorably for twelve years in many engineer units and retired as a Captain in 1992.

His work experience highlights include loan officer, electrician, federal facilities management specialist, and information technology solutions specialist. Dennis retired from the State of Michigan; Department of Information Technology, Office of Enterprise Security in 2006 and returned to the Copper Country in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where he writes books and magazine articles and runs an independent consulting practice.

He and his wife Penny enjoy the Michigan outdoors and travel extensively in their class C motor home.