EthicsPoint, Inc is a US

United States

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-based corporation

Corporation

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 dealing in regulatory compliance

Regulatory compliance

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 software. As of 2010, EthicsPoint ranked as the 24th largest company in the Silicon Forest

Silicon Forest

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. In 2011, Ethicspoint was selected as the top technology-service company by TechAmerica.

History

EthicsPoint was founded in 1999 as a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) vendor leveraging expertise in fraud, ethics and technology. Guided by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 , also known as the 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act' and commonly called Sarbanes–Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002, which...

 and the United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines, EthicsPoint initially revolutionized incident reporting with the first integrated telephone- and web-based hotline mechanism.