The federal government has strict and comprehensive regulations on how agencies handle constituents’ personal information. This is just as true for tax information. The IRS leans on established guidelines associated with federal security to dictate regulations for agencies that handle tax information and, by and large, treats that information as a sensitive and critical part of operations. These guidelines are housed in the robust regulatory document called IRS 1075.
Following the continuous rage of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations face a difficult task to secure the workload and devices of the employees scattered around the world.
As a home has become the new office, it unveiled serious organizational cybersecurity gaps. Experts say that simply installing antivirus software or encrypting traffic on a company-issued MacBook is not enough – companies need to actively monitor their attack surface and be aware of the risks they are exposed to.
To discuss enterprise security, we invited Michael Peters, the CEO of Continuum GRC. Michael explains that to ensure that business operations are secure, organizations must be able to eliminate oncoming threats and have a clear view of their own cybersecurity landscape.
Corporate compliance is a major undertaking for a few reasons–IT systems become complex, work forces grow to hundreds of individuals with different levels of access to information and public corporations must file difficult financial and security attestations annually to prevent fraud.
One of the essential forms of financial and IT compliance for publicly-traded companies in the U.S. is SOX 404 compliance, or compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Learn more about SOX 404 and how it might impact your company.