Be ready for when the Auditors come - and they eventually do come.
SamanthaTM Controls 1) help you adhere to your control and maintenance activities, 2) save time in verifying your,
governance activities and 3) give you proactive reporting that proves your compliance posture.
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We all have controls, goverance routines, preventive maintenance activities - or we should. They appear as recurring tasks to do things like:
- For Sarbanes Oxley, perform steps and report quarterly that all changes to the financial systems are approved by Business Owners and
verified by Business Owners.
- For PCI Compliance, take steps and report quarterly to protect credit card holder data by limiting the storage and retention of charging
information.
- For preventative maintenance, reboot all servers quarterly.
- For inventory control, account for all unused equipment over $5,000 in value every 4 months.
- For security, conduct a vulnerability test bi-annually.
- For disaster recovery, perform recovery drills annually on all key systems.
What happens next is either the activity is forgotten to be performed, or not tracked when complete, or performed manually. When these procedures are eventually audited, an additional amount of work
then ensues to verify that the governance activities actually took place.
Instead, let SamanthaTM alerts you
and your staff when a control is due. Out of the box, Sarbanes Oxley, PCI and HIPAA controls come with standard templates.
If you forget to perform your test or do the prescribed preventative maintenance, Samantha gently reminds you.
When manual tests
must be performed (i.e. conducting an inventory), they are documented in SamanthaTM contemporaneously, as the tests are Passed or Failed.
If the tests can be performed electronically, use the Jobs feature
and let SamanthaTM do the testing for you.
Then, when the Auditors come, and they do, reporting is as easy as pressing a button.
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