Companies looking to automate the processes involved in verifying the effectiveness of their controls have sometimes found they can jumpstart this by extending existing process automation in other areas of the IT management infrastructure. Verifying the effectiveness of internal controls is now a requirement of for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance (Section 404), and while automation has begun reducing the cost of other compliance processes, automating the verification of controls is still a fairly untapped area of compliance management.
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