Using Likewise Enterprise to Boost Compliance With Sarbanes-Oxley

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 company make the shift to continuous compliance for identity and access management in a mixed network. 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 annual audit cycle, company leaders are coming to understand why. 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.