Audit Assist

It's important to realize there is no such thing as "out-of-the-box" compliance solutions. Governance, Risk and Compliance has three core sectors, Finance & Audit, Business Operations & IT GRC. While the regulations maybe be different for each core area, the foundations are built on common sense, best practices and ethics. It is important to tackle the three areas concurrently. IT is both an enabler and driver for GRC. The sheer number of moving parts in the enterprise makes IT GRC challenges difficult. Disparate systems, point solutions, people and silos of projects and process make the audit process time consuming, costly, and painful. From an auditor's perspective it is often difficult to develop the evidence that processes are being followed and security events are properly delt with.

Audit Assist is program designed to help you work through the language and process issues that often arise between operations and auditors. Breaking down the challenge into five components immediately addresses key risk areas as well as helping to build a solid foundation for the next step in the process. Each step advances your organization towards a Microsoft Core IO Model, reducing manual intervention and workloads, reducing risks and ensuring positive control.

Compliance Alignment

What strategic corporate and external objectives do I need to meet?

Policy and Governance

What rules, standards and procedures are needed to support these strategic objectives?

Scope Objectives

What are the important components I should be auditing?

Audit Automation

How can I automate this and make it repeatable?

Security Operations

Are the policies, objectives and tools effective?

The output of step five would flow back into Compliance Alignment as a validation of an effective security program. This would complete the lifecycle by beginning the process again.

Whether you're a security officer, IT Operations or an auditor, contact our auditing team to discuss how we help our customers prepare for audits and assessments.