As with many things Sarbanes-Oxley, barrels of ink were used to describe the law’s effect on records management until about 2003. Then there was relative silence—as if Sarbanes-Oxley somehow went away, or was revised with a giant “never mind” with respect to record retention.
The impression is misleading. SOX is far from the only compliance issue facing records management professionals, but among compliance officers and managers formulating document retention strategies, it remains an elephant in the room that specialists say fuels the need for a strategic approach to records management.
