Meets all criteria:

• Explains the events that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and provides two examples.
• Explains the goals that the legislation seeks to achieve.
• Explains how audits and assessments help achieve compliance.

Meets two criteria:

• Explains the events that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and provides two examples.
• Explains the goals that the legislation seeks to achieve.
• Explains how audits and assessments help achieve compliance.

Meets one criterion:

• Explains the events that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and provides two examples.
• Explains the goals that the legislation seeks to achieve.
• Explains how audits and assessments help achieve compliance.

Does not meet any criteria.

Meets all criteria:

• Explains IT’s role in SOX compliance.
• Elaborates on the consequences of non-compliance and provides two examples.
• Analyzes whether SOX is achieving its intended goals.
• Discusses an organization’s biggest challenge to complying with SOX.

Meets three criteria:

• Explains IT’s role in SOX compliance.
• Elaborates on the consequences of non-compliance and provides two examples.
• Analyzes whether SOX is achieving its intended goals.
• Discusses an organization’s biggest challenge to complying with SOX.

Meets two criteria:

• Explains IT’s role in SOX compliance.
• Elaborates on the consequences of non-compliance and provides two examples.
• Analyzes whether SOX is achieving its intended goals.
• Discusses an organization’s biggest challenge to complying with SOX.

Does not meet any criteria.

Meets all criteria:

• Applies current APA style to in-text citations and references, and document formatting if appropriate, with minor to no errors.
• Writing is focused, concise, and organized and articulates at a college level, with minor to no errors.
• Uses resources from reliable and/or scholarly sources.

Meets two criteria:

• Applies current APA style to in-text citations and references, and document formatting if appropriate, with minor to no errors.
• Writing is focused, concise, and organized and articulates at a college level, with minor to no errors.
• Uses resources from reliable and/or scholarly sources.

Meets one criterion:

• Applies current APA style to in-text citations and references, and document formatting if appropriate, with minor to no errors.
• Writing is focused, concise, and organized and articulates at a college level, with minor to no errors.
• Uses resources from reliable and/or scholarly sources.

Does not meet any criteria.

Student work indicates the ability to assess cybersecurity industry standards, compliance, regulations, and laws and use the knowledge gained to successfully complete all of the assignment.

Student work indicates the ability to assess cybersecurity industry standards, compliance, regulations, and laws and use the knowledge gained to successfully complete most of the assignment.

Student work indicates the ability to assess cybersecurity industry standards, compliance, regulations, and laws and use the knowledge gained to successfully complete more than half of the assignment.

Student work indicates some ability to assess cybersecurity industry standards, compliance, regulations, and laws and use the knowledge gained to successfully complete some but less than half of the assignment.

Student work indicates little ability to assess cybersecurity industry standards, compliance, regulations, and laws.

Student work demonstrates no understanding or progress towards achievement of this outcome.