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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.

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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.

Mitigate Internal Risks & Achieve Compliance with Internal Controls Research & Tools

1. Get a clear picture of internal controls.

Understand how to develop an internal controls strategy.

2. Track the organization's progress.

Assess internal controls maturity and prioritize the process.

3. Classify the organization's data.

Make controls count.

4. Develop a policy for network/system administrator conduct.

Hold IT staff accountable for their system privileges.

5. Develop a process for issuing and tracking access rights.

Demonstrate compliance to auditors and quickly deprovision access for departed employees.

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Author

Refael Keren

Contributors

  • Uri Tkachenko, Security Consultant
  • Rafael Fabius, CISA, CRISC
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