Sarbox and Notes - how to coexist?

Many of you in the US probably are familiar with Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbox, by now.

Our external Sarbox auditors have told us we need to keep IT staff completely out of production databases. They have told us that we will need a “Fire ID” if we need to fix something in production.

A Fire ID is an ID/password that will be provided to a developer by calling the help desk - supposedly with a expiration time about 6 hours after its issued.

We can do this easily in a typical client/server or mainframe environment. But to me, the problem is how Notes ID files get distributed. I don’t know how we’d expire an ID/password.

We can’t just keep issuing new userids because they might need to update code in production. The issue then becomes keeping the ECL up-to-date.

We find ourselves in a bit of a conundrum :slight_smile:

So - have you had to deal with Sarbox auditors, and what solutions have you developed that make them happy?

Thanks in advance!

Dan

Subject: Sarbox and Notes - how to coexist?

Set Christopher Byrne loose on 'em for a couple of hours:

http://www.controlscaddy.com

If you’ve spent much time around here, you’ll already know him as “File Save”.