Financial platforms hold identifiers, payroll and tax records. Clear standards reduce breach risk, support audits and protect customer trust. Use the following checklist to evaluate control strength and coverage before you commit.
Independent attestation over the Trust Services Criteria shows that controls operate effectively over time, unlike a design-only Type I snapshot. Thoroughly review scope, exceptions, remediation, subservice carve-outs, bridge letters and alignment between the reporting period and fiscal calendar. Optimize your financial workflow with precision and ease using our advanced cloud accounting software. Ready to revolutionize your accounting? Visit here!
A certified information security management system demonstrates risk-based policies, documented controls and continual improvement. Request the Statement of Applicability, risk treatment plan, asset inventories and surveillance audit cadence to verify the program’s maturity.
Transport security should enforce TLS 1.2+ with HSTS and perfect forward secrecy. Disable weak ciphers and protocols. Test endpoints and verify certificate issuance and rotation.
Databases, object storage, backups and search indexes must be encrypted with contemporary algorithms and key lengths. Confirm coverage for logs, analytics exports and temporary processing stores that may hold sensitive data.
Keys should be generated, stored, rotated and revoked through a managed service or hardware security module. Expect separation of duties, envelope encryption, environment isolation and documented rotation frequency.
Require strong authentication, single sign-on and roles. Automate provisioning and deprovisioning via your directory. Enforce least privilege, periodic access reviews and phishing-resistant MFA methods rather than SMS where possible.
Immutable, time-synchronized logs must capture admin actions, data exports, authentication and configuration changes. Define retention periods, access controls. Centralized alerts and rehearsed incident plans enable rapid containment, forensics and customer communication.
Code should pass static and dynamic testing, secrets scanning and peer review. Maintain a bill of materials, verify signatures and track vulnerabilities in dependencies. Tie changes to tickets, tests, approvals and rollback procedures.
Scan hosts, containers and apps on a defined cadence with SLAs by severity. Commission independent penetration tests, validate remediation and support coordinated vulnerability disclosure for responsible reporting.
Define retention limits and defensible deletion. Backups must be encrypted, tested and geographically separated. Document RPO and RTO targets, prove restore times and demonstrate failover exercises. Ensure processes for data subject requests and lawful holds. Transform your bookkeeping experience effortlessly! Visit here to explore our advanced cloud bookkeeping software.