Ready to Build a Cloud and Analytics Strategy of your own?

We can help! Leveraging the cloud and analytics to fuel future growth is a process. The first step? Adopting policies and procedures that improve operational and data management maturity.

 

The oracles of opportunities

Getting the right answers from your data, processes, and operations starts with asking the right questions.

  • How accurate is the data?

  • Where was it collected?

  • Is it accessible by those who need it?

  • How are we protected from those who might misuse it?

  • What is our process?

  • Does it match our policies?

We use the answers to help clients in heavily regulated sectors use data to avoid the traps of human bias and bad information and insulate themselves from the potential for penalties and reputation risk arising from compliance audit deficiencies.

Augmented by tools like machine learning and predictive algorithms, the results can lead to extraordinary outcomes, including more agile business processes, and asymmetric strategic advantage.

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Planning

Analytics

  • Define & Confirm Problem Statement

  • Define & Confirm Project Objective

  • Develop Data Analysis Plan

  • Confirm Access to Data

  • If Applicable, Evaluate & Tests Data Privacy, Data Security, Access Rights and other regulations

Risk and Compliance

  • Evaluate Executive Management Buy-in

  • Confirming Review Period and Scope of Audit

  • Definition of Key Supporting Documents

  • Evaluate Target Organization’s Ability to Support Audit (Executive Management Buy-in)

  • Determine Applicable Best Practices/Rules/Regulations

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Understanding

Analytics

  • Data Blending

  • Data Profiling

  • Process Capture

  • Imputation & Null Analysis

Risk and Compliance

  • Evaluate Organization’s Controls

  • Evaluate Supporting Documentation

  • Obtain Supporting Documentation

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Testing

Analytics

  • Prescriptive & Recommender Systems

  • Develop & Execute Tests of Controls

  • Document Test Results

  • Document Test of Controls

Risk and Compliance

  • Data Cleanup & Preparation

  • Predictive Analytics

  • Quick Descriptive Analytics

  • Predictive Modeling

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Reporting

Analytics

  • Dashboard & Visualizations

  • Reports & Insights

  • Recommendations

  • Documentation

Risk and Compliance

  • AT 101 Reports & Attestations

  • Summarize Test Results

  • Categorize Deficiencies

  • Develop Corrective Actions

Project Management Methodology

We employ a project management process tailored to deliver our services with the highest levels of efficiency, quality, and defensibility. Drawn from years of experience managing Information Technology and Data Security of all types coupled with Lean Six Sigma efficiency methodologies, our Project Management Process governs all aspects of our services, including:

 

  •  Project Documentation

  • Quality Control

  • Team Selection, Roles, and Responsibilities

  • Communications Strategy

 

  • Change Management

  • Preliminary Project Planning

  • Team Training and Communication Plans

  • Detailed Budget Forecasting

  • Knowledge Transfer to Corporate Staff

Continous Quality Control

We recommend the implementation of Continuous Quality
Control processes on each project.

Using a combination of statistical sampling, data analytics, and infrastructure optimization, our team can closely monitor and adjust each project's phases progress from initiation through completion.

This allows us to immediately flag ambiguities or issues requiring additional clarification – before the team invests significant time in the project.

Integral to our Continuous Quality Control process is rigorous documentation and record-keeping throughout each review to demonstrate the defensibility of the project management efforts.

Project Management Staff

In our experience, projects are most successful when a project manager is fully focused on a project’s success.

Therefore, we typically allocate a project manager to work full-time on one project, tackling different responsibilities as the demands of the project shift.

Occasionally, as a project is ramping up or winding down and the overall work requirements are minimal, a project manager may shift a portion of their time to one or more other matters.

We may also assign more than one project manager to a project in the event that the team size becomes particularly large.

 Assessment Framework and Standards

  • AICPA TSP

  • GAPP

  • HIPAA/HITECH

  • HITRUST

  • PCI DSS 2.0

  • PCI DSS 3.0

  • PCI DSS 3.2

  • FEDRAMP - LOW IMPACT

  • FEDRAMP - MODERATE IMPACT

  • ITAR

  • SHARED ASSESSMENTS 2017 AUP

  • FERPA

  • JERICHO FORUM

  • MEXICO - FEDERAL LAW ON

  • PROTECTION OF PERSONAL

  • DATA HELD BY PRIVATE PARTIES

  • NERC CIP

  • ISO/IEC 27001:2005

  • ISO/IEC 27001:2013

  • NIST SP800-53

  • NIST SP800-53

  • R4 APPENDIX

  • NZISM

  • NZISM V2.5

  • ODCA UM: PA R2.

  • CMMI