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Compliance burdens

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As challenging as the security demands imposed by some new regulatory requirements have been, they've also presented IT managers with a golden opportunity to make network improvements.Of particular influence have been the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act's financial reporting standards for publicly traded companies and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal security rules for patient data that take effect next month for healthcare organizations.

For companies that spent several months striving to understand SOX or HIPAA, the requirements brought good news: For some IT departments, upper management generously opened purse strings to acquire new auditing and security protections.

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