Regulatory audits have grown increasingly complex as the number of human and non-human accounts accessing a growing number of applications continues to rise. Ensuring access reviews are complete and accurate from an audit perspective is crucial for organizations to maintain compliance, protect their data, and streamline operations. However, with so many variables to manage, producing and compiling the evidence required by auditing teams has become time-consuming and prone to human error.
To better address the evidence needs of both internal stakeholders and auditors, Zilla Security has introduced several new features designed to enhance the evidence collection and presentation portion of access reviews with audit completeness and accuracy in mind.
These new features enable our Zilla customers to:
- Further automate the collation of evidence bundles and share with auditors or internal teams.
- Include additional application-specific reports and data granularity as part of the audit evidence bundle, all automatically generated by Zilla and packaged in an auditor-friendly format.
- Account for stakeholder context when reassigning review items to prevent reassignment to someone who is not in the correct job function or reporting organization.
Zilla automates and simplifies the audit collection and packaging process, making it more manageable for organizations of all sizes to maintain and report on User Access Review compliance.
Common Evidence Package Challenges Related to Audit Completeness and Accuracy
Audit preparation and completion is rife with challenges. Each auditor (whether internal or external) may operate under different standards or even personal preferences for how to conduct each step of the audit and review evidence. We’ve seen how this can lead to misaligned expectations regarding the type and depth of evidence needed. As different auditors conduct reviews, they may request additional information, leading to more delay in a process that can already be cumbersome and time-consuming.
Additionally, the collection of materials to produce an evidence package is a tedious process. Many organizations still rely on spreadsheets, manual screenshots, and ad-hoc reports to gather and share evidence. Adding to the frustration is the fact that once teams complete the time and labor-intensive process of gathering this evidence package, it is almost immediately rendered incomplete and potentially inaccurate due to the ever-changing nature of roles, permissions, apps, and users within an organization. This puts the organization at risk, but also increases the likelihood of an audit finding.
Ultimately, these challenges slow the audit process and greatly increase the risk of an audit finding. This is where Zilla comes in with our automated, comprehensive, and simplified tools for audit evidence collection and packaging. Zilla’s automation eliminates many of the manual efforts required for collecting and packaging evidence for your access reviews, while increasing audit completeness and accuracy.
Zilla Simplifies Audit Completeness and Ensures Accuracy
Zilla’s latest features for audit completeness and accuracy were implemented based on feedback from customers, advisors, auditors, and even our own internal compliance teams. We’re excited to make it easier than ever for compliance teams to complete reviews and generate comprehensive evidence packages. With Zilla, teams can:
- Generate a comprehensive evidence package once an audit is complete. No more collating various spreadsheets, documents, and audit logs – Zilla collates a comprehensive bundle complete with all of the documentation needed. This can be easily shared with internal and external auditors alike.
- Provide application-specific evidence at a granular level. Because of Zilla’s ability to connect to all your apps, it is a seamless process to generate before-and-after screenshots (whether uploaded by a customer or captured by Zilla Universal Sync).
- Control review reassignment based on reviewer context. App owners and managers need the flexibility to reassign a review to a more relevant party – but not without governance. Zilla now enables admins to only enable reassignment within the current reporting chain or scope of responsibility.
All of these features have been integrated into Zilla’s end-to-end audit preparation tools, including the readiness checklists that walk compliance teams through every step of the review preparation process. Powered by our breakthrough automation, Zilla’s audit and evidence capabilities continue to give teams the information and tools they need to achieve and report on compliance, without requiring hours of manual effort or hundreds of spreadsheets.
Zilla’s user access review solutions are designed to handle every stage of the audit process, from initial readiness checklists to post-audit follow-ups. We are committed to helping organizations navigate the complexity of audits with confidence and ease.
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