SOX Compliance

cside: SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Compliance Made Simple

Keeping internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) safe client-side. With SOX, we're landing in the world of financial reporting and corporate governance. SOX is really about the truthfulness of recorded and reported data and its goal is to protect investors. It imposes rules on the accuracy, integrity and reliability of financial reporting; specifically for companies that file periodic reports under the Securities Exchange Act §§13(a) and 15(d). With critical data and workflows running in the browser, server-side controls alone aren't enough. Errors or tampering can occur before the data gets to the server. You need visibility and control. cside delivers both and adds audit-ready evidence on top.

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Overview

SOX in a nutshell

SOX is founded on internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) that must ensure that financial reports are free of misstatements. It imposes checks on the disclosure of information and sets rules for internal control and financial reporting and auditing.

On the one hand, CEO/CFO are personally accountable for quarterly and annual certifications of the reports and disclosure controls (Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 / 15d-14; SOX §302). On the other, management must assess the ICFR annually (SOX §404) and, if applicable, auditors must also provide attestation (PCAOB AS 2201). SOX also mandates independent audit committees and safe channels for whistleblowers for listed issuers. Corporate IT sits at the center. Systems that process financial data must be reliable and secure. On top of that, manual or automated controls need to be testable and documented. That puts real responsibility on companies. Compliance means solid ITGCs that keep your systems and data secure and govern how systems are modified. Violations aren't trivial: SEC actions, potential delisting pressure, and criminal liability under §906 for false certifications. SOX compliance is a top priority.

Impact

What SOX means for you

SOX applies to SEC-reporting issuers, including many foreign private issuers. Subsidiary ICFR is in scope if it affects consolidated reporting. Under SOX, auditors of issuers must register with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) which sets auditing standards, and carries out inspections.

Systems that touch ICFR need proper controls. Server-side security is essential, but client-side attacks can bypass controls and completely undermine your ICFR. Although SOX doesn't prescribe specific mechanisms, it sets the outcome: effective controls that are reliable, secure and evidenced.

Solution

How cside facilitates SOX compliance

On the client side, SOX compliance consequently includes measures such as pre-execution policy enforcement, and payload and destination inspection. It also necessitates change monitoring enforcement, CSP/SRI, secure headers, allowlist egress, monitoring of violations and all outbound requests. Finally, cside helps you map these back to your existing ITGC/ICFR framework and keep audit-ready evidence.

WITH CSIDE

Pre-execution policy enforcement for scripts/tags

Live runtime visibility & alerts

Script integrity and change detection

Destination enforcement

Audit-ready evidence 24/7

Requirements

Understanding SOX requirements

Management certification and disclosure controls

You can't certify what you can't see: cside gives you visibility and blocks unauthorized browser code that could change data. You can inspect what scripts ran, the fields that were touched and where data is sent, with exportable logs for auditing and certification.

ICFR change control and integrity

Automated and manual controls, like calculations or validations, often run in the browser along with third-party scripts. You need to catch tampering in real time. cside enforces approved paths before execution. Detailed logs and change records give management and auditors a clear trail to follow.

Current-disclosure readiness

To support rapid disclosure, cside alerts on new endpoints, exfiltration attempts, or changes on revenue pages. Everything gets timestamped so you can assess what needs immediate attention or disclosure.

Audit committee procedures

You need forensics when a complaint lands. cside records what ran and where data went so teams can reconstruct events. You can export evidence for long-term retention in your records systems.

Real World Example

Own the browser, protect the data

The Scenario

Here's what that looks like in the real world. During quarter-end, a vendor's tracking code quietly rewrites the Net Revenue widget for two countries and tries to steal order data.

With cside

cside stops the malicious code before it can run, blocks the unauthorized data connection, and immediately sends alerts with detailed logs.

The Result

Result: Users never saw any tampered data, internal controls stayed intact, no emergency disclosure was needed, and all evidence was automatically saved for compliance records.

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*This page describes product capabilities and how they may support your compliance program. It is not legal advice. Requirements vary by organization and jurisdiction.