Risk Management Solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 IT Compliance

John S. Quarterman has previously coauthored The 4.2BSD Berkeley Unix Operating System1 and its successor edition, as well as The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide2 and other books. Mr. Quarterman is CEO of InternetPerils, Inc., an Internet business risk management company that is extending risk management strategies available to business into new areas such as insurance, catastrophe bonds, and performance bonds. He has 26 years of experience in internetworking, beginning with work on ARPANET software at BBN. In 1990, he incorporated MIDS, which published the first maps of the whole Internet and conducted the first Internet Demographic Survey. In 1993, he started the first series of performance data about the entire Internet, visible on the web since 1995 as the Internet Weather Report, which together with the Internet Average and ISP Ratings, were some of the most cited analyses available.

About the Author.Preface.Acknowledgments.Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: The Risk: Big and Growing Fast.Chapter 3: Solutions and Providers.Chapter 4: Strategies for Affected Verticals.Chapter 5: Banks and Basel II.Chapter 6: Financial Institutions Beyond Quantification.Chapter 7: Large Enterprises: Big Risks, Big Solutions.Chapter 8: Small Enterprises: Surviving Risks.Chapter 9: Internet Service Providers: Bonded and Insured.Chapter 10: Governments: Guarantors of Last Resort.Chapter 11: Insurers and Reinsurers.Chapter 12: Summary: Managing Internet Risk in a Scale-Free World.Index.