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Check your inbox in a few minutesEnterprise ITGC assessments aligned to financial reporting and governance frameworks. Ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your critical IT systems.
IT General Controls (ITGC) are the foundational policies, procedures, and practices that ensure the secure and stable operation of an organization's IT environment. They form the basis for the overall IT control environment, directly impacting financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance.
Our enterprise ITGC assessments evaluate your controls against established frameworks to ensure they are designed appropriately and operating effectively. We help minimize the risk of unauthorized access, system failures, and data breaches, paving the way for seamless external audits.
Controls Evaluated:
We begin by defining the boundaries of the ITGC assessment. This involves identifying critical business processes, the underlying applications that support them, and the supporting IT infrastructure (operating systems, databases, networks).
Proper scoping ensures that our testing aligns with your specific financial reporting, SOX compliance, or internal governance requirements, preventing wasted effort on low-risk systems.
We rigorously evaluate how users are granted access to your critical systems. This includes reviewing the provisioning (onboarding) and de-provisioning (offboarding) procedures to ensure only authorized personnel have access.
We test password policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement, and the management of privileged/administrative accounts to prevent unauthorized access and data manipulation.
Unauthorized or poorly tested changes to IT systems can cause massive disruptions. We review the end-to-end Change Management lifecycle, from the initial request to testing, approval, and deployment into the production environment.
We ensure that developers do not have the ability to move their own code into production (Segregation of Duties) and that all changes are appropriately documented and authorized.
This phase evaluates the daily IT operations that keep your business running. We verify the configuration, scheduling, and monitoring of critical batch jobs and automated processes.
Crucially, we review backup and recovery procedures. We ensure backups are executed successfully, stored securely off-site (or immutably), and that restoration tests are performed regularly to guarantee business continuity.
We compile all findings into a comprehensive ITGC report detailing the Test of Design (ToD) and Test of Operating Effectiveness (ToE) for each control evaluated.
We don't just point out the flaws; we provide practical, prioritized remediation recommendations to help your IT team close the gaps and dramatically improve your internal control effectiveness before formal external audits occur.
The foundational elements required to maintain a secure and compliant IT environment
Ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to critical systems and data. This domain covers the lifecycle of user identities, the enforcement of Segregation of Duties (SoD), and the strict control over super-user or administrative accounts.
Controlling how modifications to applications, databases, and infrastructure are handled. This ensures that all changes are properly requested, tested, approved by management, and migrated to production without introducing errors or vulnerabilities.
Guaranteeing the reliable processing of financial and operational data, and the ability to recover that data in the event of a failure. This includes monitoring scheduled jobs, managing IT incidents, and rigorously testing data backup and restoration capabilities.
Proactively identify and fix control deficiencies so you can pass external statutory and SOX audits smoothly and without stressful surprises.
Ensure your designed security policies are actually operating as intended in the real world, preventing unauthorized access and data loss.
Secure the underlying IT systems that process your financial data, ensuring accuracy and reliability in your corporate financial reporting.
Reduce operational risks by enforcing strict change management and ensuring robust backup and disaster recovery processes are in place.