Automating Controls

As organizations stabilize their Sarbanes-Oxley efforts from frantic projects to stable, repeatable processes, teams responsible for compliance are facing significant pressure to rationalize and reduce the costs of instituting and running controls.

Controls are not only expensive to put in place and operate, they create further downstream costs such as increased audit hours and a decline in process throughputs. This article discusses some ideas on automating controls and reducing costs.

This article was published by ISACA (isaca.org) in their "Control" journal, Vol 2, 2007, and the copyrights to this piece already belong to ISACA.
Here it is - as published, in PDF format


Automating Controls.