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Microsoft 365 SOX Compliance Management

Enhance your Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance audit by utilizing AdminDroid’s report bundle, dedicatedly
curated with cutting-edge insights, making you well-prepared for your IT audit.

SOX Compliance
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Microsoft 365 SOX Compliance Management Using AdminDroid

The SOX Act mandates publicly traded organizations in the U.S. to implement and maintain internal controls over all financial information, including the information systems that store and process it.

With its plentiful reports, AdminDroid is a perfect SOX compliance auditing solution for Microsoft 365.

Our tool provides enhanced visibility into your Microsoft 365 Environment across all services.

With AdminDroid, you never have to worry again about generating the right reports for your SOX IT audit on time.

Office 365 SOX Compliance Management using AdminDroid

What is SOX?

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) is a piece of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in the year 2002. It was a response to the public outcry against some high-profile financial frauds at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco International, and other organizations in the early 2000’s.

The main objectives of the SOX Act are to:

  • Improve auditing standards and
  • Foster corporate transparency and responsibility

The Act was brought into effect with the goal of increasing investor confidence in public corporations.

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Does your Microsoft 365 Environment Need to be SOX Compliant?

The SOX Act does not cite any specific platform or technology while talking about compliance. It is commonly understood that all IT systems used by your organization for storing and processing financial data must be SOX Compliant. Therefore, if you use Microsoft 365, it is necessary for you to prove to your auditor that your Microsoft 365 environment is secure and that the policies, procedures and controls for ensuring the same are in alignment with SOX standards.

Does your Office 365 Environment need to be SOX Compliant?

Managing Microsoft 365 Compliance with Native Tools

While Microsoft offers great features and tools for simplifying Microsoft 365 SOX compliance management, it lets us down when it comes to some critical needs:

No Compliance Reports Mapped to Regulatory Standards

Microsoft 365 doesn’t offer native compliance reports mapped to the SOX Regulatory standard. This complicates the job of the IT Team because they would simultaneously have to undertake the time-consuming tasks of going through the SOX Regulation and generating reports.

Limited Retention of Audit Data

Microsoft 365 does not retain audit data older than 90 days. SOX emphasizes and checks for internal controls which means that your organization needs to hold on to an audit trail for up to 7 years.

No Easy Way to Navigate through Audit Data

The Compliance Search tool only allows one to search for specific content and not specific events. During a SOX audit, it is essential that you are able to provide specific audit data when asked for.

How AdminDroid can help you with your SOX Audit?

AdminDroid offers customizable reports for SOX on all Microsoft 365 Services without any data retention restrictions.

With our trove of reports, you can breathe easy about generating the right ones on time for your SOX Audit. Our reports are customizable, meaning that you can drill down the report for specific data. They are easy to manage and can be scheduled in the format you desire. We have a dedicated search tool, so you don’t have to waste time searching for a particular report.

SOX stipulates that audit data must be retained for a maximum of 7 years. Set your worries aside because, with AdminDroid, you can retain your audit data for as long as you want.

To make your job easier, we have mapped our compliance reports to the COBIT Framework, the de facto standard for SOX IT compliance.

Learn how AdminDroid Report Collections can help you to maintain IT internal controls for SOX

We have compiled and mapped AdminDroid’s Microsoft 365 Reports to the SOX Regulatory Standard to make your job easier.

  • Understand your Microsoft 365 environment’s relationship with COBIT and COSO Principles.
  • Align your organization’s internal controls with insights into your Microsoft 365 environment.
SOX COMPLIANCE CHECKLIST PDF

How can you ensure SOX readiness using AdminDroid?

Monitor and keep track of user login events

Audit user activity across all Office 365 services

Monitor and review users having special access permissions

Collect and identify information associated with the audit events

Analyze and investigate on breach activity

Review database activity and ensure secure access to sensitive resources

Report Board for SOX

AdminDroid offers a dedicated Report Board for the centralized management of SOX Reports.

With AdminDroid, you can...

Monitor and audit the changes to
                                           your files

Monitor and audit the changes to your files

  • Gain visibility into your SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Systems.
  • AdminDroid offers customizable reports that let you monitor and audit file activity on both of these platforms.
Keep a tab on login activity

Keep a tab on login activity

  • AdminDroid can generate reports on login activity in your Office 365 environment.
  • They provide data on login failure, logon time, and even a monthly summary of login activity.
 Review critical access rights and permissions across Office
                                     365
                                     services

Review critical access rights and permissions across Microsoft 365 services

  • You can use AdminDroid to know who has access to critical information, permissions to modify information, and other privileges in your Microsoft 365 environment.

Retain audit data for as long as you want

Retain audit data for as long as you want

  • With AdminDroid, you can retain your audit data for as long as you want.
Search and navigate through Audit data with ease

Search and navigate through Audit data with ease

  • AdminDroid’s Search Tool allows you to navigate through our countless reports with ease and generate the right ones for your SOX audit on time.

Monitor and report on what your users are doing

Monitor and report on what your users are doing

  • AdminDroid offers reports on user activity across all Microsoft 365 components.
  • They can be used to monitor and audit all activity.
  • Generate and maintain an audit trail for as long as you like.
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