Contact:
Dan Nickchen
920-277-4049
dan.nickchen@dbsyslog.com
Greenville, WI, October 19, 2005 – DARAD Corp, has introduced a database auditing tool that assists public companies with Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance.
Dan Nickchen, co-founder of DARAD, said, “After months of research and development and a very successful beta trial at Plexus, we’re pleased to be introducing the DBSysLog database auditing tool. Our new tool addresses a critical issue in Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance – database integrity assurance.”
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002 “to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws”.
One area of concern is the integrity of a company’s database where most of the data driving these disclosures are stored and maintained. Corporate auditors want strong assurance that this data has not been compromised in some manner.
The DBSysLog database auditing tool offers this assurance by providing auditors with summary and detailed reports of system and user activity within the database. Access to these reports is completely isolated from the individuals responsible for database creation and maintenance – even the main administrator of the database.
Steve Seidl, Director of Global IT 404/SOX Compliance at Plexus, a Neenah, Wis.-based public company where the product was beta-trialed, said “The DBSysLog database auditing tool addressed a Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance problem for which we had great concern. As part of our effort to become SOX compliant, we needed the ability to monitor activities related to our Oracle databases. Specifically, we needed to monitor and report on schema changes, data changes and activities of user accounts with elevated database access privileges. The software developed by DARAD provides us with those capabilities, so we are now able to identify if any unauthorized activities have occurred.”
DARAD Corp (www.darad.com), based in Greenville, WI, provides IT tools to streamline and manage information technology. One of these solutions is a database auditing tool to address concerns about data integrity within corporate databases (www.dbsyslog.com). Several factors are driving demand for the company’s products, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and anxiety about the privacy and security of personal data.
