Why, Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley Became Law, IT Executives Are Better Off

For the past five years, CIOs have dealt with being micromanaged by colleagues outside of IT and suspected a conspiracy by CFOs to undermine them. They've been inundated by vendors with fabulous claims of compliance-in-a-box and have listened to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan decry Sarbanes-Oxley as a "nightmare" that should be rewritten.

But because technology enables the production of nearly all of the financial information under scrutiny, now senior executives see that "what happens in IT is strategic." Read the entire story.