The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002

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Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Chapter 2 for me was the staggering number of breaches, and the purely reactive method of legislation to deal with these events. It is unfortunate, but laws seem to be changed as a matter of reaction to incidents, rather than a proactive method of anticipating those incidents. For example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which was in response to the widespread corporate corruption scandal of Enron. It seems that many of the points regarding transparency in accounting were common sense, and could have been implemented prior. However, in the cybersecurity and business world, I suppose it is hard to anticipate corruption before it happens. From chapter three, what stood out to me was the huge amount of meticulous

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