SOA in a SOX compliant environment

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I’m looking for examples / case studies where SOA has been implemented within the context of SOX specific governance architectures.

Does anyone have any references and/or examples from workplace where you’ve seen this first hand?

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SOA?? Whats SOA?? Is it a software or what?

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^ lol

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Faisal,

SOA is Services Oriented Architecture which basically refers to an approach to the transmission of data among various business processes irrespective of their underlying technology platforms. The services are often made interoperable using a common interface definition such as Web Services.

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Think I may be misunderstanding, but here’s such an article:

http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2914

I work for a software vendor in the SOX space, but we’ve stayed clear of SOA so far…

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UT, I have a pdf doc that shows emerging threats and their mitigations for SOA... I can send it to you... and then you can match up the relevant SOX components :D

Let me know if you want the doc.

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^ Kaleem, I just sent you a PM.

Thanks Picoico... I have that article already... and the subject matter that I'm interested in is related to what that article summarizes. I'm just interested in real-world examples or more elaborate best practices.

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For me SOA is Start of Authority (DNS). :)

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Umar,

Doucment sent to the e-mail address you provided. Let me know if it helps in your quest.

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I thought SOX was Sarbanes Oxley act. Let me read a bit more about SOA as it seems we have a similar information sharing architechure in our organization.

♥ ♥ Hum Larkay ♥ ♥
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I think the author of the linked article is being paranoid. The situation of SOX/SOA is similar to running anti-virus on a machine connected to internet. The risk is there if you don't take any action. A systematic, informed approach to implementation is required to achieve this. Our organization is using a similar approach since the SOX was enforced on the US listed companies in 2005.

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I have not read the article but it looks like a match by a quick glance.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266338.aspx