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All successful businesses integrate technology (IT) into their organizations’ operations. Whether your business is large or small, you are exposed to internal and external risks due to your information technology solutions.

Information technology risks are ever changing and must be managed for an organization to remain confident in the security and control environment.

RubinBrown professionals have vast knowledge and expertise in the information technology audit area. We can help you manage your risks and provide an evaluation of your organization's information system's availability, confidentiality, and integrity.

• Data Analysis
• Information Technology Risk Assessment
• ERP – Pre and Post Implementation Review
• Information Technology Policy and Procedure Assessment
• Network and Operating System Platform Specific Services (AS/400, UNIX, Windows)
• Regulatory Gap Analysis

Services Transparency of financial reporting and operational results has become imperative to enable effective decision-making.

If you are concerned that there are high risk areas that have not been identified, unrealized cost saving opportunities or find analyzing data difficult to due to the volume of data supplied, then Data Analysis Services may be an effective solution to determine the savings you may be missing out on. RubinBrown prides itself on adding value to companies by finding cost savings and determining how to leverage assets to gain the most benefit.

RubinBrown’s Data Services team combines the industry experience, service line specialists, and state of the art analysis and extraction tools, such as IDEA and ACL, to extract, consolidate, and analyze your company’s data.

Our Data Services team has the expertise and experience to perform customized and complex analyses that provide you with insightful and fresh perspectives about your business, division, process or control.

• Cost reclamation
• Key control and process compliance testing
• Vendor compliance reviews (service level agreements and service level management)
• Special investigation support
• Process and control trending/testing
• Segregation of duties analysis
• Data centric risk assessment
• Continuous auditing setup and implementation
• Business activity measuring for performance and improvement
• Key performance indicator measurement

Information technology (IT) is a fundamental backbone to every organization. When organizations grow and change, information technology becomes increasingly important to the overall operations.

A risk assessment determines what information resources require protection, then understand and document potential risks from IT security failures which can create a loss of information confidentiality, integrity, or availability. The rationale for a risk assessment is to assist management in developing suitable strategies and controls for protection of information assets.

IT risk affects the entire business – specifically, the business risk associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, influence and adoption of IT within an enterprise. Business performance depends on reliable information systems.

A risk assessment is vital to ensuring the business understands the IT risks and helps coordinate the efforts of compliance and internal audit to focus on the greatest risks.

RubinBrown offers IT Risk Assessment services that help you identify, understand, and communicate IT Risk beyond those within the IT organization – in terms the business can understand.

• Security threats
• Gaps in regulatory and legislative compliance
• Unexpected disruptions to system availability

Our experts will help you understand internal and external security policies, document your current compliance posture, identify vulnerabilities, and outline a remediation plan. By combining the guidance from several frameworks, our deliverables will be encompassing for both IT and internal audit services.

Implementing an ERP system is a significant undertaking as such a project impacts employees, customers, suppliers, and potentially investors.

Providing insight to project stakeholders on the intended and actual results for their project at key milestones allows them to get comfortable significant issues did not occur, or were identified and addressed in a timely manner.

• Business process changes
• Project planning and risk identification
• Testing development and execution
• Data conversions
• Migrations and integrations
• Training and documentation

RubinBrown offers an assessment services methodology that is tailored to your needs. Applying our top-down approach combined with our independent expertise, you can be assured you will receive a balanced report that provides valuable insight into the cause of problems and corrective actions.

Our experts will provide you process performance improvement and identify training needs. Our team of experienced individuals will provide you with an objective assessment of an in-process project or completed project.

Effective information technology governance clearly communicates management’s aims and direction. This includes defined processes, roles, and responsibilities which serve as guidelines for day-to-day activities.

Information technology policies and procedures provide the structure for the delivery of technology services to the organization and demonstrate due diligence and due care. Policies and procedures should reflect the organization’s culture, mission, level of risk tolerance, and customer expectations for confidentiality, integrity and availability.

We have an experienced team that can assess the quality and effectiveness of your organization’s information technology policies and procedures to identify gaps, inconsistencies, need for clarity, and offer best practices.

• Obtain an understanding of IT policy and control environment
• Inventory policies in place and note completeness
• Validate maintenance of content
• Understand policy communication
• Validate enforcement
• Prepare report comments

Automated environments supporting key business applications typically have layered security architecture. At the heart of this security architecture is an operating system which provides the link between data and business applications. Weak security at the operating system level presents a threat to the security, integrity, and control over your data as an intruder can bypass application controls and directly access data.

Our well-trained team includes dedicated IT auditors. Our top-down approach results in the development of an individually designed audit, which assesses, tests, documents, and reviews a specific platform and allows for a comprehensive evaluation.

Our team, on average, possesses more than 18 years of experience in IT audit services, providing experience across many operating environments (e.g., z/OS, Windows, NT, OS400, Linux, Unix) and database packages (e.g., Oracle, SQL, DB2, Access) in a variety of industries.

RubinBrown can tailor a solution specific to your environment, whether it involves analysis of external auditor, automated script interpretation, custom coding scripts for your environment, or performing testing around your network and operating system platforms.

A company’s ability to demonstrate compliance with application laws and regulations is a key feature in maintaining consumer confidence and avoiding governmental sanctions.

The scope of any regulatory gap analysis will vary based on the nature and extent of existing compliance efforts.

RubinBrown has experienced staff capable of guiding you through the regulatory maze. We gain an understanding of your compliance history, issues you face, and recommend solutions to remediate compliance gaps.

Your RubinBrown team brings significant experience with financial services regulation and the associated testing resources needed to remain compliant.

• FTC Information Security Rule
• FTC Red Flags Rules
• HIPAA
• PCI
• Various ISO Standards

Leveraging our understanding of your compliance program, we develop and execute risk based tests of transactions designed to confirm the operating effectiveness of your program.

If you are a financial institution, our tests focus on examiner areas of focus such as customer identification, suspicious activity, currency transaction reporting (including reporting exemptions.)

If you are a commercial enterprise, we can help guide you in assessing your need to comply with regulations such as the FTC’s Red Flag rule for identity theft of your customers’ personal information.