CCPA Cybersecurity Audit: Choosing the Right Path to Defensible Assurance
California's cybersecurity audit regulations are now in effect. Understand the key decisions that can help organizations prepare for a defensible cybersecurity audit.
Organizations meeting certain revenue and data-processing thresholds may be required to complete an annual independent cybersecurity audit, with the first audit period for some organizations beginning as early as 2027.
Our latest paper, CCPA Cybersecurity Audit: Choosing the Right Path to Defensible Assurance, provides practical guidance for boards, executives, privacy leaders, Internal Audit, and assurance stakeholders evaluating how to meet these requirements.
This paper explores:
- Applicability and timing: Understand which organizations may be subject to the audit requirement and key certification timelines.
- Internal Audit vs. External Audit: Compare available audit pathways and the independence, governance, evidence, and stakeholder considerations associated with each approach.
- Readiness before the audit period begins: Learn how readiness assessments can help organizations identify gaps, define scope, and establish a strategy for full-period operating effectiveness testing.
- Leveraging existing assurance activities: Explore how SOC, ISO, SOX, cybersecurity, and Internal Audit efforts may be leveraged while addressing potential gaps in scope, period coverage, criteria, and evidence.
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CCPA Cybersecurity Audit Choosing the Right Path to Defensible Assurance
Organizations have important decisions to make now: Should Internal Audit serve as the audit vehicle? Does an external audit approach make more sense? How can existing assurance activities be leveraged? Download the full paper to learn how to evaluate your options and prepare for a defensible cybersecurity audit.
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