Professional Services

SOx Readiness Compliancy Assessment

“Reinforce accountability in corporations by implementing security control measures to re-establish the trustworthiness and integrity of financial reporting”

Future Com will help clients prepare for their SOx audits by:

Reviewing current security controls
Identifying areas for remediation
Creating a strategic roadmap to prepare the client for SOx compliance

Companies need their IT department to be involved in the SOx effort to determine whether the current IT monitoring controls, IT security general controls and application controls exist and support the objectives of the compliance effort. A sample of the challenges the IT department faces include:

Mapping the IT environment (IT services and processes) that supports internal control and the financialreporting process to the financial statements
Identifying risks related to the identified SOx IT systems
Designing and implementing security controls designed to mitigate the identified risks and monitoring them for continued effectiveness
Documenting and testing IT and systems-based controls
Maintaining IT controls as updates and changes are needed in coordination with updates and changes in internal control or financial reporting processes
Costs of adding additional security controls
Identifying mitigating or compensating controls

Being in the industry for over fifteen years, Future Com recognizes the challenges faced by today’s IT and compliance managers and administrators and the need for proper evaluation of SOx security controls. Too often companies spend a great deal of money on equipment that is installed and configured utilizing basic features and evolved network architectures. With certified network engineers, Future Com can address these issues through professional services that help clients prepare for SOx audits, reduce the risk, improve security controls, and ensure correct deployment,tuning and knowledge transfer. IT administrators live in a “Perception is Fact” world and when companies spend money on solutions that is what they expect…. solutions, not equipment. Future Com is ready to help you comply with your SOx readiness, maximize resource utilization, simplify your operation and improve network security.

Scope of Engagement

Future Com will provide this service up to 8 week(s) of onsite service for the assessment and a follow up meeting for presentation of analysis and recommendations.

Tasks

To sufficiently evaluate the SOx readiness level across the client’s enterprise, Future Com conducts an assessment identifying gaps to evaluate the client’s readiness to meet SOx compliance.

Future Com‘s Security Technical Analyst(s) will work with your executives, IT and IS staff, and business units to assess the current security health of the implemented security controls and to make best practices recommendations for security improvements including SOx specific requirements. This engagement will consist of the following:

Discover SOx security controls in the current environment
1. Identify the scope of the SOx readiness assessment
2. Review and understand the current security controls implemented
Review current SOx identified security controls environment
1. Analyze ineffective security controls and recommend an action plan for remediation
Recommend improvements
1. Create a strategic roadmap that will be a blueprint regarding the necessary steps needed to prepare for a SOx review and maintain that compliance

Deliverables

SOX Readiness Report & Roadmap to Compliancy

Professional Services Ordering Information
FCS-PROFSVCS-SOx-40

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PCI Compliancy Assessment
HIPAA Compliancy Assessment
Network Optimization Assessment
Wireless Site Survey & Security Planning
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