JAT’s Risk Assessment and Assurance Services help you answer these questions affordably. We provide clear, concise recommendations with cost-effective safeguards to mitigate and prevent these risks from occurring.

• Help you understand what specific risks pose the gravest and most immediate threat to your information technology infrastructure, business process models, and business assets.

• Audit and attest your information technology, operational process, compliance controls and identify risks to your total infrastructure, individual business units and enterprise while quantify exposures.

• Provide meaningful and researched recommendations for cost-effective safeguards to mitigate and prevent risks. Bringing confidence throughout your processes and entity.

Risk management and assurance disciplines are not new, but many of the threats that confront your business are new and are constantly changing, increasing in complexity and impacting larger integrated and more interdependent targets. JAT risk assurance consultants are skilled at adapting risk assessment and management methodologies to meet the specific needs of your business. Our assessments will help you identify immediate and future business vulnerabilities. We’ll examine potential impacts and evaluate, recommend and assist where needed to implement cost effective safeguards.

Occurrence of all risks certainly cannot be prevented, however our consultants and advisors will apply experienced-tested methodologies for accepting, reducing, and managing your risks. We can also provide advice on how you can transfer the ownership and resulting management of specific risks to external entities, thereby reducing exposure to your company. Every engagement’s strategic goal is to properly educate and assist your company to define and take timely, appropriate, and effective actions that minimize or eliminate exposure to your business from risks that can disrupt or defraud your operations.

JAT’s Risk Assessment and Assurance Service helps identify and evaluate operational and interdependent technology reliant risks, with an emphasis on physical and logical IT assets, business processes and financial data. Our assessment scopes are client dependent and may include a review of your operational and technology processes, systems and facilities. It may also include a quantitative or qualitative assessment of your business, process, and IT disciplines currently in use, and the security and embedded continuity assurances of certain logical and physical elements. This assessment provides a better understanding and defines your level of assurance that the exposures presented pose specific and quantifiable risks to the interruption of your business or to the accuracy and reliance of your processes, so that appropriate mitigation techniques, technologies, and policies can be prioritized and properly implemented.

JAT’s Risk Assessment and Assurance Service is tailored to meet each client’s specific needs. The assessment as an example may include the following issues:

• Physical: review of electrical, mechanical, and structural elements of the facility

• Logical: review of business, operations, and IT processes and disciplines that are used to manage the business

• Security: review of logical security of your data and information, as well as the physical security of the site

• Executive and personnel protection and accountability considerations such as physical security, access and logical security methods, confidentiality, and security of data and technologies

• Business Impact Analyses and Business Continuity and Resumption Planning for both information technologies in use and business unit processes required for entity wide business continuity assurance to shareholders, management, board of directors, auditors, and regulators

• Risk Self Assessment and Sustainability – bringing efficiencies through self administered checks and balances within your processes and maintaining revision control over future assessment reliance

• SOX preparation processes that encourage early identification and resolution of issues, saving companies public scrutiny and costly government enforcement.

JAT assures each review relates the values of the assets of your organization, to the threats that could negatively impact your business continuity and information accuracy, and your management’s and shareholder’s reliance (availability of accurate data) on processes and data. Our deliverables reflect your needs. From a presentation to identify risks and help their prioritization, to proactively implementing specific mitigation and remediation techniques and safeguards, to implementing on-going self-certification processes. Depending on the scope of analysis requested our findings, recommendations and associated cost/risk-benefit analyses are included to aid management in making the right decision reflecting acceptable risk.

• Identify events or threats that could impact continuity of business operations and technology infrastructures, and the probability of occurrence

• Establish plans to remediate risk mitigate exposures to losses, erroneous information and fraud

• Define detailed threat analyses and perform unit, division or enterprise tests and identify cost effective plans to mitigate risks and exposures

• Examine the strengthen how new business initiatives and technologies impact the enterprise, identifying and removing points of failure or conflict with business goals

• Identify applicable regulatory compliance exposures and assess (HIPAA, SOX, FDA, FCPA, BSA, GLBA, FFIEC, Basel II, CFR 11, COSO, ISO 17799, BS 7799 and Homeland Security) controls, and risks aligned properly with your business model

• Identify exposures and assess applicable US Government security standards (OMB A-130, FISMA, NIST 800-30, NIST 800-53, California 1386, CalPers, DITSCAP/NIACAP) and Foreign government standards where applicable (PIPEDA, Safe Harbor Act, UK Combined Code).

• Align remediation actions to required returns on investment expected values such as HIPAA FDICIA, BSA and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

As information risk management has become a greater responsibility of the board, JAT advises clients on their continual responsibility to balance business risks to strategic business goals on a local, national, and international understanding.

We understand your need to be in front or keep pace with improved processes and technology and to be proactive towards the tremendous opportunities offered by their innovation to best manage your risks.

If you are undergoing or foresee rapid growth, have large, complex information systems or are implementing new technologies or e-commerce solutions, JAT Proven Risk & Compliance Strategies is your best partner to help you identify and manage the associated risks so you can meet your financial goals.