IT General Controls for SOX Best Practices

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About this course

Adopt industry-proven best practices for it general controls for sox.

  • 7 lessons
  • 45 min
  • intermediate

What you'll learn

  • Define IT General Controls and explain their purpose within a SOX compliance program
  • Identify the four primary domains of ITGCs: access to programs and data, program changes, program development, and computer operations
  • Explain how ITGCs support the reliability of financial reporting and the overall control environment
  • Describe the key controls for user access provisioning and de-provisioning
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of authentication mechanisms, including password policies and multi-factor authentication
  • Design a periodic user access review process that meets SOX audit requirements

Finishing the course

  • 28 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
  • Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.