Mitigate Internal Risks & Achieve Compliance with Internal Controls
Keep employees in line without wasting company time.
- Issues such as privacy, fraud, security, and corporate accountability mean that every organization should already have some process in place to monitor and limit employee actions in the workplace.
- Internal controls must be balanced with their impact on business process and the heavy investment required to deploy them.
- Balance controls with risks by learning how to assess and communicate risks, determine appropriate control measures, and get started deploying controls with Info-Tech’s tools and templates.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Internal controls are like a surgeon’s scalpel. When wielded with precision, they can remove unsightly risks, but when brandished without care, they can bleed the business of time and money.
- Stakeholder feedback is critical to developing a strategy for internal controls – without it you may do more harm than good.
- For controls to succeed, they must be linked with employee understanding of the desired outcome.
Impact and Result
- Spend the risk management budget effectively by prioritizing internal control efforts using Info-Tech’s control prioritization process.
- Avoid unnecessary risk and overcompensation of controls by assessing the organization’s current internal controls processes and determining the process most appropriate for your organization’s risk tolerance profile.
- Get your team on their way to improved internal controls with tools and templates for data classification and access management controls.
About Info-Tech
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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
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Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Contributors
- Uri Tkachenko, Security Consultant
- Rafael Fabius, CISA, CRISC