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Find in-depth analysis of important developing issues affecting IT Asset Management and related disciplines.
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Service That's Above and Beyond...
Geac engaged in consulting services with Animus Solutions to help us deploy the Peregrine AssetCenter solution to all our global sites.... the Animus team worked hard to stay on schedule and ensure the Geac employees received the required knowledge transfer needed to support this application into the future.
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Legislation
Privacy, copyright and other laws directly apply to how IT assets are managed and used. As professionals managing IT as a business, it is important to
understand the legal use of IT assets and the requirements to prove compliance.
This section is provided to help IT business professionals obtain the
information necessary to develop standards, policies and processes. Below is a
list of important legislation with definitions. To continue to research these
laws, click on the title of each to link to more information.
Several pieces of legislation give teeth to enforcement efforts and define organizational responsibilities:
U.S. Code Title 17, the federal copyright law.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as DRM) and criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, even when there is no infringement of copyright itself. It also heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.
UCITAThe United States Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is a proposed law. It intends to set up consistent rules to govern software licensing, online access, and other computer information transactions. UCITA has been extremely controversial and is opposed by some consumer groups and state attorneys general, because they believe it is too favorable toward software producers.
NETThe 1997 "No Electronic Theft (NET)" Act strengthens the copyright and trademark laws. It ammends Titles 17 and 18 of the U.S. Code to clarify the law’s application and penalties.
Sarbanes-OxleyThe Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 made far-reaching reforms of U.S. business practices. The legislation establishes new standards for all U.S. public company boards, management, and public accounting firms. The impact for IT management is the increased focus on controls on processes that involve the assets of the company. Sarbanes-Oxley has led to increased focus on COBIT®, Control Objectives for Information and related Technology published by ISACA, http://www.isaca.org/ as well as ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library®, published by The Office of Government Compliance (OGC) http://www.ogc.gov.uk/guidance_itil_4438.asp.
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