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Technology and Security Risk Services

Today, the health and viability of most businesses is heavily dependent on the strength and security of their information technology (IT) infrastructure.

As a result, IT has become a high-priority issue in executive suites and corporate boardrooms, driving top management to provide proactive sponsorship for efforts that will ensure adequate IT security and availability. And create an operating environment that effectively manages — and mitigates — risks.

We can help you focus on fundamental as well as emerging IT issues as you develop and execute plans to respond to stakeholder expectations. Our services are based on insights into how leading organizations prioritize their efforts to ensure that IT investments provide maximum security and risk mitigation in the most cost effective manner.

Our services are backed by extensive technical competencies, which include:

  • Helping to protect IT assets against external viruses, cyber terrorism and other malicious attacks and internal security threats
  • Advising on software application controls integrity
  • Improving IT processes
  • Addressing regulatory compliance on IT applications

Our areas of focus include:

IT for Assurance: Third Party Reporting, Application Controls and Security, Information Security

IT for Risk: Third Party Reporting, Application Controls and Security, Information Security, IT Effectiveness, Program Advisory Services

IT for Performance: Information Management and Analysis, Application Controls and Security, Information Security, IT Effectiveness, Program Advisory Services

Going 'live' with IFRS: the role of IT

While accounting changes drive IFRS conversion, there are significant implications for IT as well. In fact, the IT organization will be integral to any IFRS adoption initiative. Inside IFRS The opportunity for IT (pdf, 617kb) discusses the potential complexities of IFRS conversion and the effects on applications, reports and data.

Information technology: matters of privacy
In the last decade, privacy issues for organizations have shifted from unwanted marketing solicitations to potential fraud and identity theft. Ernst & Young’s IT trends: top privacy issues in 2009 (pdf, 408K) adds to these concerns the effects of the global economic crisis. Read how the critical investment in new technology risks privacy and what organizations can do to protect personal information.
IT Trends: Cost reduction through virtualization and cloud computing

In today’s turbulent environment, many organizations are looking for ways to drive costs out of the IT function, but others are looking for ways that technology can help rationalize costs across the enterprise. Virtualization and cloud computing (pdf, 443 kb) are two important IT cost-reduction opportunities that organizations should consider.

Information Technology risk management’s critical role

A survey asks nearly 150 risk management and IT executives at global financial institutions for their feedback on the framework, processes, and drivers of information technology risk management (pdf, 3.4mb) and the role it plays in an organization’s overall risk management structure. The results and analysis focus on four key areas: convergence, common understanding of risks and controls, IT risk management investments, and risk reporting.

Moving beyond compliance

Organizations are moving beyond regulatory and corporate compliance to protect their brand and reputation. Ernst & Young's "2008 Global Information Security Survey" looks at the current state of information security, and offers recommendations for creating an improvement agenda for the future.

Continuous controls monitoring (CCM)

An effective CCM program can help drive compliance efforts, identify potential processing errors, and detect fraud. Learn the three key considerations (pdf, 133kb) for building a CCM program, written by professionals from Ernst & Young US and published in SAP Insider.

Outlook for privacy, security and compliance

This three-part series, written for CIO.com by risk professionals from Ernst & Young US, outlines the top information technology issues companies should be thinking about in the areas of privacy, security, and compliance:

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XBRL

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL),is designed to improve the reporting process for those sharing business information internally or trading documents across company lines. Our publication Addressing XBRL (pdf, 919kb) explores key questions including:

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Benefits and return on investment
  • Investor relations
  • XBRL and IFRS

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