Organized by:                  Speakers & Presentations A Perspective on ITIL®, COSO, Cobit, CMM & SAS70 in Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Niranjan Pandey, ICT Audit Incharge, ST Microelectronics   U.S. Securities exchange Commission requires ,as per Sarbanes oxley act (2002) ,the organisation to provide internal control over financial reporting .This has brought a see change on the IT framework landscape the way it was looked earlier . The focus has increased with SOX for internal control within IT for greater assurance on financial results to external world including investors.   Since IT is gaining more and more importance implementing financial processes and other key systems like SAP/ERP having direct financial impact so are other IT- aspects like infrastructure and access controls etc, hence IT-becomes a key candidate for internal control . SOX compliance must be achieved in an IT assisted organisation through various frameworks while COSO is the favoured framework for SOX (as recommended control framework) others popular and widely accepted frameworks are also permitted for internal control like COBIT,ITIL®,CMM etc ..for various control design and implementation which depends from organization to organization. The paper here gives a perspective on  the role and significance of all mentioned frameworks including SAS70 ( for service organization ) in achieving the SOX compliance focusing ITSM.   Meet Niranjan pandey Niranjan Pandey, ICT audit incharge has over 9 years of IT experience. He is a certified ITIL® Service Manager, Information Systems Auditor (ISACA,US), Lead auditor ISO-27001 (ISMS) and ISO-9001 and has also worked extensively towards the organizations CMM Level 5 journey.     Sponsor Platinum Sponsor   Supporter     ITIL ® is a Registered Trade Mark, and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce, and is Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.