Corporate Governance Listing Requirements

FRCP Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Sarbanes-Oxley HIPAA Corporate Governance CA's Information Practices UK Freedom of Information UK Data Protection Act '98

While Section 406 of Sarbanes-Oxley only requires public companies to adopt codes of conduct governing senior financial officers, companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are required to have their codes of conduct apply to directors, officers and employees. The NYSE also requires the CEO of each listed company to certify that he or she is not aware of any violation by the company of the NYSE corporate governance listing standards.

The NYSE rules specifically require a listed company to address confidentiality as a goal of its compliance program. In order to comply with the listing requirements companies must:

Ensure employees, officers, and directors maintain the confidentiality of information entrusted to them
Implement procedures and compliance standards that will facilitate effective protection of confidential information

Workshare software helps organizations implement internal controls to protect data and audit information usage by:

Stopping out-bound email that contains financial or other sensitive information and alerting users to the violation
Enforcing usage policies that control content
Enabling companies to define rules for content control and protection and who can override existing policies
Providing audit reports of content changes
Supporting compliance activities without changing the way your users work

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