Most companies have found that Sarbanes-Oxley compliance is confusing, expensive and time consuming.  Any solution that offers compliance must tackle the gaps that exist and/or were identified by auditors. ESS takes on compliance challenges with  a strategic advantage, sustainable compliance mechanisms are built-in, the solution is uniquely flexible and evolves with your ever changing auditing requirements !
 

Key Factors for IT Compliance

• Audit Lessons
  - Develop a strategy
  - Plan ahead
  - Challenges (documenting & testing)
  - Automation
  - Permission Controls (who is doing what)
• Testing Your Processes
  - Validating controls
• Importance of Change Management
  - Focus Change Control
• Control Management
  - Access Management
  - Focused Compliance Requirement
• Control Verification & Assessment
  - Segregation of duties
• Leveraging Compliance
  - Opportunity gained by compliance
• Ten Steps to Sustainable Compliance

1. Automate
2. Evaluate
3. Self-assess
4. View Compliance as an Opportunity
5. Be Practical
6. Understand financial flows and business effect
7. Manage your controls
8. Leverage existing tools and processes
9. Use metrics to test controls
10. Don't re-invent the wheel

 

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