IT Compliance, Security Testing, Risk & Policy Reviews

Kaiser Experience

Kaiser Consulting's technology professionals combine a deep understanding of information technology (IT) with extensive business systems experience and financial awareness to help organizations align business and IT strategies to maximize competitive opportunities and business profitability while minimizing risks.

We understand how people, procedures, and technology can successfully interact to:

• Facilitate process improvements
• Contribute to increased productivity
• Maintain effective internal controls
• Reduce damaging technology risks

Our specialized IT knowledge plus our broader experience with large and small organizations across many industries enable us to validate controls, assess vulnerabilities, report compliance, and deliver meaningful services and solutions to solve your business and technology challenges.

KAISER ASSESSMENTS

As organizations increasingly rely upon complex IT systems to produce timely and accurate information for use by internal stakeholders, regulators, external auditors, vendors and customers for a wide variety of critical purposes, it is crucial technology strategies keep pace. IT systems must be implemented and maintained effectively and securely to meet current and future compliance and efficiency requirements.

We apply a risk-based approach to planning, executing and reporting on our IT engagements. By identifying high-risk compliance areas and assessing the associated controls, policies and procedures, we can provide practical and proven recommendations to help your business mitigate identified deficiencies and lower risks to acceptable levels.   

We utilize our diverse skill sets to test and evaluate the effectiveness of your existing controls, identify gaps for potential remediation, and devise custom solutions based on your priorities. We also provide change management guidance as your organization works to improve and transform its IT environment into a more capable, reliable and secure resource.

IT SERVICES INCLUDE:

We utilize our technical expertise helping businesses minimize IT risk and maximize IT investments to increase company productivity, drive business growth, protect information assets, and enhance regulatory compliance.

• Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) testing
• Application Controls (AC) testing
• Information technology governance
• System and Organization Controls (SOC) readiness
• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and J-SOX compliance audits
• Documentation of existing processes and controls prior to upgrade or new implementation
• Conversion of manual processes to automated processes
• Cybersecurity risk assessments
• Application system reviews
• Change management reviews
• Computer operations evaluations
• Privacy assessments
• Higher Education Cloud Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT) assistance
• Information technology policy development and reviews
• Internal audit and SOX outsourcing