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SOAProjects has a team of technology experts on hand to help you assess and establish appropriate safeguards for your current information systems. It is crucial to identify and understand your risks and to create a plan of action. Our solution model identifies the risks and factors affecting your Company’s IT environment and it considers your overall business requirements: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Compliance and Reliability.
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Our model identifies the drivers for success in the IT organization, ensuring value added services are aligned to the business requirements. Our model also illustrates the core processes that comprise an IT organization and the key technology components and applications needed to support the business. We provide a comprehensive technology and risk management service from a full range of capabilities with an option of providing a complete project team or appropriate staff support. Our technology and risk management services include:
We also help clients succeed by helping them manage information more efficiently and effectively than their competitors. We take our technology expertise to provide IT development services to our clients. Whether you use our turn-key solution-development services or depend on our abilities to staff a team of professionals, you can rely on our track record of success. We understand our clients’ requirements and provide professionals who have prior extensive experience. Our services provide you with the confidence and assurance that projects are in the hands of experienced, successful, and credentialed professionals.
Our team provides an independent objective assessment of a company’s risks. We help to determine the root causes for problematic risk areas, allowing effective solutions to be designed and implemented. This in turn helps companies manage risks, improve efficiency, and gain competitive advantage. It also ensures that IT initiatives are supporting business strategy. We also help build secure processes to manage change and provide business continuity, because we believe true success is achieved only when IT is effectively aligned with the business.
Management Advisory
Our technical team has served in key IT positions for both industry and consulting firms. Our team has performed roles such as CIO, CTO, IT Director, ERP Team Lead, System Administrator, Network Administrator, and IT Project Manager. We’ve also served as ERP consultants and implementers on projects of all sizes and most of our team has worked in one of the Big 4 accounting firms at a level of Manager, Senior Manager, Principal, or Partner.
We have the knowledge, experience, and expertise to provide a full range of Management Advisory services, including:
- IT Management
- IT Project Management
- IT Audit and Compliance – Management Leadership and Hands-on Consulting
- ERP Implementation Leadership and Day-to-Day support
- ERP Compliance related to Segregation of Duties, Security, Change Management, etc
- Core ERP systems include: SAP, Oracle, QAD, and other financial packages such as Solomon, Epicor, Great Plains, and QuickBooks.
IT Audit and Assurance
We are proud to have a core team of consultants with expertise in Audit and Assurance services which includes the following areas:
- Sarbanes–Oxley IT Controls Assessment, Testing, Gap Analysis, Remediation Action and Reporting
- Information Technology Risk Assessment and Scoping
- Operating System, Database and Network Security
- Assessment of ERP Application Controls
- IT Governance and Enterprise Risk Management
- Solutions for Regulatory Compliance ( SOX, PCI, GLBA and HIPAA)
- IT General Computer Controls Assessment
- System Development Life Cycle Assessment
- Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning
- Computer Aided Audit Techniques
- IT Internal Audit Outsourcing and Co-sourcing
Our dynamic team consists of some of the world’s top auditors, including senior team members from the Big-4 public accounting firms. We have extensive experience with internal and external audits. Our systematic approach involves partnering and working seamlessly with all levels of IT staff without disrupting normal operations. We have successfully demonstrated our capability to work in very complex environments and in situations where little or no specifications are available. Our client base of more than 60 small, medium and large companies is a testimony to this fact.
Information Security
At SOAProjects, we recognize that the risks associated with information security are increasing with the ever-changing world of technology and its continued integration into the infrastructure of critical business functions. Our professionals assist our clients in assessing and establishing appropriate safeguards for their existing information systems, identifying security-systems gaps and vulnerabilities and provide value-added industry best practices recommendations to manage the risks. Our Security Assessment capabilities include:
- Information Security Management - ISO 27001
- Identity Management
- User Provisioning and SOD Assessment
- Data Protection and Data Privacy
- Development of best practice Information Security Policies and Procedures
- Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Services
Information Security Management - ISO 27001
Information Systems are prone to potentially expensive security risks and threats leading to high client concern for information protection. An effective information security management system will be able to substantially reduce the information security risks. Our information security management service will lay a strong foundation for your company as we have:
- Deep understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of your enterprise-wide security practices
- Alignment with internationally recognized security standards
- Confidence that your security resources are being allocated appropriately
- Benchmarking of your organization against industry and geographic peers
- Enhanced communication with your Board and other stakeholders on security
Our approach to ISO 27001 compliance:
Identity Management
With increasing trend in complexity of IT infrastructure, multiple applications to meet the business requirements, managing users across organizations, end-user resistance to being held responsible for managing credentials and security requirements to preserve privacy and prevent identity theft, many large companies are struggling to unify the identity management process with a limited budget allocated to them.
Our consultants with extensive experience in the user management process and deep understanding of the complex IT infrastructure will be able to support the Identity Management requirements.
User provisioning and SOD Assessment
Segregation of Duties is a critical control issue for many companies which can result in fraudulent activities and errors as multiple conflicting tasks are performed by one individual. Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002 has placed a requirement on the publicly traded companies to increase the priority and visibility of segregation of duties. Our methodology implements Segregation of Duties by identifying sensitive tasks or authority which when combining can result in fraudulent activities.
Our SOD assessment solution examines the relationship between user provisioning and SOD and provides full lifecycle provisioning management for user profile attributes entitlements and approvals. The automation and integration of provisioning enables consistent application of business rules across complex enterprises which will help automate and centrally manage tasks. Our solution considers all core business processes and across all enterprise applications in addressing segregation of duties and compliant provisioning.
Our consultants have hands on experience in market leading SOD tools like Virsa, Approva, LogicalApps, etc. and will help you in effective and efficient implementation.
PCI Compliance
 The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard is the program which outlines and addresses vendor requirements for retention and protection of consumers’ sensitive data. It applies to merchants, payment service providers (PSPs) and other vendors that provide service or technologies to facilitate transaction processes.
Currently we are providing the advisory service to our clients for the PCI compliance pre-assessment and readiness. We also understand the core technical fundamentals of PCI and how it can correlate to your SOX and other compliance programs. In next few months SOAProjects Inc. is planning to obtain Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and Approved Scanning Vendors (ASV) certification from PCI Security Standards Council.
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