IT Risk and Control Assessments
- Completed approximately 100 IT risk and control assessments over a 20+ year period.
- Industries include:
- Financial Services - major tier banks, smaller tier banks, insurance, funds management, pension admin, FX
- Manufacturing - international and Canadian wide food processors, steel, mining, brewing, wine, jewelry, autos, CD/DVD
- Retail - Canadian wide grocery, department store, international fast food, photography, pharmaceutical, toys, books
- Services - hospitals, government, electric and water utilities, printing, courier, property management, payroll/HR, lottery and gaming, schools and universities
- Information Technology - global network systems provider, software providers, hosting providers, global personal device provider
- Communications - national telecommunications and media provider
- Business processes examined include:
- Mortgage, retail banking, capital markets, trust accounting, defined benefit/defined contribution, health and welfare administration, FX administration
- End to end supply chain distribution, manufacturing, inventory management, procurement, sales, receivables, payables, asset management, payroll, revenue assurance
- Technologies include:
- SAP, Oracle Financials, JD Edwards, Great Plains/MS Dynamics,
- Unix and Linux variants, iSeries, Windows, Mainframe (OS/390, RACF)
- Oracle database, MS SQL, Progress database
- Process/methodologies include:
- COBIT - full and partial
- ISO 27001/27002
- Customized approach using various IT risk and control methodologies as necessary for the client situation
- NIST cybersecurity framework
- PMBOK
- ITIL, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD
- Project scopes:
- Large - team lead for significant size engagements - example 7,000 hours using up to 15 personnel over multi-locations and multi-environments and processes
- Small to Medium - team leader or solo on extensive range of assignments
- Types of engagements:
- Support for the external audit
- Internal audit
- Special purpose advisory engagements
- Special purpose compliance related for regulator, contractual compliance, accounting standard based
- SOC1, SOC2 service provider assessments
- ISO 27001 preparation and implementation
- IT due diligence
- SOX/ICFR assessments - management advisory and as auditor
- ERM
- Revenue assurance