Five Years After Sarbox, Is IT Better Off?

The article focuses on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on the information technology (IT) sector in the U.S. For the past five years since the implementation of the Act, chief information officers (CIO) have dealt with being micromanaged by colleagues outside of IT. According to Lee Dittmar, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley made an impact on technology departments by forcing more detailed reporting about how computer software projects affect a company's financial data.