Governance, risk & compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) 2002

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 — US federal law requiring publicly traded companies to maintain internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR).

Sections 302 (CEO/CFO certification), 404 (internal control assessment and audit), and 409 (real-time disclosure) drive IT security requirements including access controls, change management, audit logging, data integrity, and backup/recovery for financial systems. Enforced by the SEC and PCAOB.

Non-compliance penalties include fines up to $5M and 20 years imprisonment. Often implemented using COSO and COBIT frameworks.

How Lavawall® helps you get to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance

Most of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) comes down to technical controls you have to run and prove: keeping systems patched, hardening configuration, detecting breaches early, backing up what matters, controlling access, and keeping evidence that all of it actually happened. Lavawall® runs those controls across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace from one console, maps them to Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and tracks your posture continuously instead of once a year at audit time.

• Assess your current state against Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in the Lavawall GRC module, with the questionnaire and control set built in.
• Remediate the gaps with the same platform — automated patching, configuration fixes, backups, and access review — not a separate project.
• Evidence everything with timestamped, exportable records auditors, insurers, and clients accept.

Training courses for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

The Lavawall® training catalogue has a course that covers it. Assign it to the people it applies to and keep the completion records with the rest of your compliance evidence.

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) — IT Controls and Financial Reporting (30 min)

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Related

Lavawall® supports Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) as part of a built-in catalogue of compliance frameworks. Framework requirements are summarized for planning purposes; always confirm the current official text before certifying.