SOC 3 SysTrust and WebTrust Services | What you Need to Know

Heard about SOC 3 and SysTrust | WebTrust, commonly known as the "Trust Services"? If not, you are about to start seeing SOC 3 reports surface, due in large part to...
SSAE 16 vs. SAS 70 | Here’s What You Need to Know

SSAE 16 vs. SAS 70 seems to be a hot phrase as of late and for good reason. After approximately 19 years of faithful service of reporting on controls at service organizations, the SAS 70 auditing standard is being effectively replaced by SSAE 16. There's much to...
SSAE 16 | Description of the “System” | What you Need to Know

Enter SSAE 16 and it's new requirement for service organizations to provide a description of its "system". As for out with the old...
SSAE 16 Management Assertion | What you Need to Know

SSAE 16, put forth by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), requires that the service organization provide a
ISAE 3402 and SSAE 16 | Say Goodbye to the SAS 70 Auditing Standard

ISAE 3402, The International Standard on Assurance Engagements,“Assurance Reports on Controls at a Service Organization” and SSAE 16, Statement on Standards for Attestation...
SSAE 16 Readiness Assessments | The Transition from SAS 70 Begins

SSAE 16 Readiness Assessments will without question become a hot "to do" list for many service organizations who are effectively transitioning from SAS 70 to the new SSAE 16...
SSAE 16 | Preparing your Organization for the New Changes

SSAE 16, put forth by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), will force a large number of service organizations to fundamentally re-address many of the compliance issues that they...
SSAE 16 | Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 16

SSAE 16, the new attestation standard put forth by the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), will effectively replace Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) as the primary standard used for...
ISAE 3402 | A New Standard Has Arrived for Reporting on Service Organizations

ISAE 3402, put forth by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), will play a large and ever-expanding role for reporting on controls at service organizations....
ISAE 3402 | The New Global Standard for Assurance Reporting on Service Organizations has Arrived!

ISAE 3402: The International Standard on Assurance Engagements, “Assurance Reports on Controls at a Service Organization”, is the new global standard for assurance reporting on service organizations. What's interesting to note about...