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Audit Serve’s Partial List of Entity-Level Controls
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All employees are
required to review and formally accept the corporate Code of Conduct
Policy. |
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All employees are
required to review and formally accept the corporate Security
Policy. |
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3 |
All employees and
contractors are required to sign corporate confidentiality
agreements. |
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4 |
Continuous audit
monitoring process is in place to detect out-of-compliance
conditions. |
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All material
entities are subject to an annual Risk Assessment. |
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A compliance
function is established within each critical entity. |
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A Data
classification standard is established and required to be used
throughout the company to identify and classify all components. |
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A Systems
Development Methodology is utilized by all software development
areas. |
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A workflow
management system is deployed for all software changes. |
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All employees are
required to attend corporate ethics training as part of the new hire
process. |
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Employee transfer
policy requires that all employee security access to corporate
systems to be removed and establish security access using the new
hire process. |
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An annual security
access entitlement review is performed which includes all known
security resource components. |
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Access requests to
all security resource components are required to be processed
through a formal security request handling process. |
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Data owners are
defined for all sensitive resources within the company. |
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Job Descriptions
are established for all corporate-wide job functions. |
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All external
parties which host corporate data are required to have an annual
independent assessment to ensure the effectiveness of their
controls. |
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An Internal Audit
function is established which review corporate adherence to
corporate standards. |
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All employees and
contractors are required to attend annual security awareness
training. |
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An independent
third party vendor performs quarterly vulnerability assessments of
all external facing and internal network components. |
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An organization
wide analysis is performed on an annual basis to ensure that a
proper level of separation of duties exists for all key business and
IT processes. |
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All buildings which
contain corporate data centers are manned by 24 hour security with
video surveillance cameras monitoring all data center access points. |
For additional information and to obtain a
Free Proposal of Services, Detailed Project Tasks and Cost Estimate,
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Phone: (203) 972-3567 FAX: (203) 972-3367 email:
Levinemh@auditserve.com
27 Pine Street, Suite 700
New Canaan, CT 06840 USA |