Compliance by Design: IT Controls that Work

CHAPTER 16: EMBEDDING INTO PROCESS

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Figure 57: Managing yield loss

In manufacturing, we do all we can to minimize scrap and defects (see Figure 57). The outcome is strength in numbers: an improvement in first-time yield. When it comes to employing general computer and application controls to manage IT and business processes, the correlation between work performed, and the outcome, is less obvious.

Figure 58: Managing transaction integrity

As illustrated in Figure 58, an absence of restricted access, field validity and configuration controls, ...