SAS 70 Services

You tell your customers your internal controls are working. Your SAS 70 report helps them to trust you.

As a third-party service organization, many of your prospective customers will want to review the results of a SAS 70 audit prior to making a decision to outsource work to you. A SAS 70 audit helps establish your credibility and enables your customers to gain comfort with your level of commitment to protecting their information. And in many cases, a documented understanding of your control environment is required by client auditors, chief compliance officers, and others. To remain competitive, you need to demonstrate that adequate internal controls are in place and working.

SAS 70, or Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70, Service Organizations, is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants that provides guidance to enable an independent auditor to issue an opinion on a service organization’s internal controls.

BBD, a PCAOB-registered CPA firm, partners with Chief Security Officers, LLC (CSO), professionals who specialize in analyzing complex technology environments, to provide seamless SAS 70 audit services for small and medium-size third-party service organizations across the country.

Services provided include:

• SAS 70 Readiness Assessments
• SAS 70 Type I Audits
• SAS 70 Type II Audits

Which service is right for the needs of your organization?

Why work with BBD and CSO?

• The combined strengths of CSO’s background in information technology security, as well as BBD’s ability to assess controls designed to achieve specified control objectives, offer clients a service team with unparalleled SAS 70 expertise. You, and your clients, can feel assured that your internal controls are being evaluated by an expert team that understands the critical importance of your SAS 70 audit to your business operations.
• Your SAS 70 audit is not a training ground for junior professionals. All BBD team members have the CPA designation, and all CSO team members have the CISA designation. All team members have extensive experience in the SAS 70 arena. An expert team works more efficiently and effectively and is less disruptive to your daily business operations.
• The partnership between BBD and CSO enables small and medium-size service organizations to have access to expert SAS 70 audit resources previously available only to larger companies who could afford big firm fees. Our cost-effective services offer you access to the competitive advantage of a SAS 70 audit.
• The team’s extensive experience with SAS 70 audits creates an opportunity to add value beyond the SAS 70 opinion. Each engagement will conclude with suggestions to strengthen your control environment, where necessary. Making continuous improvements to your control environment demonstrates that you are serious about protecting data and information.

Learn more about our SAS 70 audit methodology.

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