This white paper focuses on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regulations relevant to data protection, and describes both best practices and automated tools used by today's leading storage managers and backup/recovery teams to meet the mandates of SOX. Information has been drawn from real-world SOX audit experiences and demonstrates how leading companies are benefiting from the use of data protection management software to streamline compliance-related testing and demonstrate documented control over data protection.

A specific set of tests to determine if your data protection processes can meet a SOX audit is also provided herein. The paper concludes by outlining key features in data protection management software that can automate aspects of compliance and reduce the cost for both internal and external SOX audits.