Hugh Taylor is vice president of marketing at SOA Software, a provider of management and security solutions for enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture. He is the co-author, along with Eric Pulier, of Understanding Enterprise SOA (Manning, 2005). Taylor has written more than a dozen papers and articles on the subject of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture.Taylor received his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is at the heart of many major IT
initiatives and vendor offerings. However, while SOA has the potential to
deliver business value through streamlined application integration, as well
as integration with partners and suppliers, the open nature of SOA has the
potential to cause problems with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. This article will
look at compliance issues inherent in developing an SOA. Using a practical
example, we'll examine COSO Control Objectives, Risks, and their supporting
IT systems from the perspective of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
This article is meant to help IT professionals, corporate managers, and
auditors understand two complex and interconnected sets of activity in the
world of corporate computing: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX... (more)
Governance is the tail that wags the SOA dog. An organization that deploys
Web Services without a solid governance program is headed for serious trouble
in terms of reliability, security, and cost.
While governance is a necessity for any IT endeavor, the open and
potentially chaotic nature of SOA makes governance either a showstopper or a
magic bullet for success, depending on how it's a... (more)
Hugh Taylor is vice president of marketing at SOA Software, a provider of management and security solutions for enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture. He is the co-author, along with Eric Pulier, of Understanding Enterprise SOA (Manning, 2005). Taylor has written more than a dozen papers and articles on the subject of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture.Taylor received his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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