Compliance Issues
It is a term used in IT for any application or transmission of data, relied upon for business processes, which is not under the jurisdiction of a centralized IT or IS department. The IT department did not develop it, or was not aware of it, and does not support it. This creates ‘unofficial’ and uncontrolled data flows, which makes it difficult to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (USA) and many other compliance-centric initiatives, such as:
- Basel II (International Standards for Banking),
- COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology),
- FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002),
- GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles),
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act),
- IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards),
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library),
- PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard),
- TQM (Total Quality Management), etc.
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