Written personally by Javed Peeran. No ghostwriters, no syndicated content, and no article that exists only to hold a keyword.
Published bimonthly. Each article answers a question clients actually ask.
Usually one that has no honest answer available elsewhere, because the honest answer involves a number, a limitation, or a situation where the service is not needed, and most firms prefer not to publish any of the three.
Most SOC 2 projects slip for the same handful of reasons. Here is what a readiness assessment actually covers, the gaps that turn up almost every time, and honest numbers on cost and timeline.
Read the articleA badly scoped first-year SOX programme costs roughly three times what a well-scoped one costs, every year, indefinitely. The decisions that determine which you get are made in the first quarter.
Read the articleThe vendor pitch implies an agent that audits your company. The sceptical response is that none of it counts as evidence. The useful territory is in between, and it is narrower and more specific than either.
Read the articleMost California privacy programmes fail on the data inventory long before they fail on the legal analysis, and most companies that are confident they do not sell data are already sharing it.
Read the articleEvery cloud cost engagement produces a saving. Most of it erodes within two quarters, because the behaviour that created the cost was never addressed.
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Licensed by the California Board of Accountancy and the author of every article published here. Thirty years of practice covering external audit of banks, insurers and mortgage companies, fifteen years as CFO and Corporate Controller inside technology companies, and IT governance and security compliance work spanning SOX 404, SOC 1 and SOC 2, ISO 27001, FISMA, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, CCPA and GDPR, plus Oracle ERP migrations and, more recently, generative-AI audit automation.
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Treat them as an informed starting point, not as advice for your situation. They are written from real engagements and the specifics are accurate, but an article cannot know your entity structure, your contracts or what your auditor has already accepted. Nothing here creates a client relationship, and the articles say so where a detail commonly turns on facts they cannot see.
Irregularly, and deliberately so. Articles are written when an engagement produces something worth writing down or when the same question arrives three times. Publishing to a schedule is how a practice ends up with posts nobody needed, which is the opposite of the point.
Javed Peeran, personally. The practice is one person, so there is no content team and no ghostwriter. That is also why an article will occasionally say that a common approach is wrong: there is nobody to overrule the view.
Yes, and it is welcome. Questions that recur usually become the next article. You get an answer either way, at no cost and with no obligation to engage.
Three decades of audit, controls and finance leadership across banking, card, mortgage, insurance, staffing and semiconductor.
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