In this session Sharon Kaiser, CIO at Abiomed and Scott Goolik, ControlPanelGRC chief technology officer, explore how Abiomed reduced the time, expense, and distractions associated with compliance and preparing for audits.
Like many smaller, regulated enterprises, medical device manufacturer
Abiomed is required to operate its SAP systems under the mandate of
Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. With a small IT staff and numerous other
initiatives achieving SOX compliance is no small task. However Abiomed was able to turn "pain into gain" with several strategies to
lower its total cost of compliance.
Take a behind-the-scenes look at how Abiomed overcame the challenge of identifying and managing segregation of duties on a global basis to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- Explore how Abiomed reduced the time, expense, and distractions associated with its audits.
- Get tips on how the company automated its data gathering, monitoring, and reporting activities and streamlined its user and role maintenance activities in SAP.
- Examine the challenges Abiomed overcame, including the compiling and distributing of manual, quarterly SOD reports, which required constant and repeated follow-up to obtain approvals.
- Take home best practices to define key preventive and detective access controls and leverage key controls over emergency access and SAP transports.
