end-user computing risk management

CIMCON Software provides the industry's most comprehensive end-user computing controls -

from discovery, risk assessment and analysis to monitoring, versioning, approvals and security.

WHAT IS AN EUC?

End User Computing (EUCs) are computing solutions and applications created and maintained by business units and embedded within business unit processes — and not managed and developed in an environment that employs robust IT general controls. Although the most pervasive are spreadsheets, EUCs also can include user databases, queries, scripts, or output from various reporting tools.

End-user computing applications are putting your business at risk. The question is “how much?”

Delivering mission-critical software and data into the hands of your staff empowers them to perform. It also creates a myriad of opportunities for mission-critical errors and cybersecurity compromises.

At best, you waste staff-hours checking data and cleaning up the constant mess. At worst, you risk hefty fines for regulatory non-compliance, wrong decisions based on bad data, customer or other sensitive data falling into the wrong hands, lost revenue, falling stock value… the list goes on.

What you can face:

Fraud and data theft
Auditing & compliance costs
Fines and penalties for regulatory non-compliance
Increased capital adequacy requirements

What you can lose:

Reputation
Market share
Revenue
Stock value

CIMCON enables you to virtually eliminate the risks

Our solutions enable you to automatically identify the location and magnitude of the risks inherent in your end user computing applications, and give you the tools to minimize them in a way consistent with your company's risk management policy.

Uncover hidden errors in models and Excel™ spreadsheets
Maintain version control and data integrity
Detect file corruption in file shares, Access™ or SharePoint repositories
Detect cybersecurity risks with unauthorized storage of critical/private data (Payment Card Information (PCI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or Protected Health Information (PHI)

Read The Times article “Spreadsheets plus human error can add up to disaster”

We selected CIMCON's software to not only support our audit and SOX-compliance activities but to provide an additional resource for aiding our business partners. The software can be used by my team with minimal training and provides a significant amount of functionality to address many of the risks associated with complex spreadsheet files.

- Vice President (Internal Audit), $16 billion Top U.S. Retailer

We have had tremendous success with CIMCON's EUC Insight Discovery Software. Unlike other vendors' products that we tested, EUC Insight Discovery provided us with an enormous amount of valuable data right out of the box, within a few days. EUC Insight Discovery gave us the information that we needed to identify and eliminate a significant number of potential opportunities for a security breach. We have successfully deployed EUC Insight Discovery globally in Paris, New York and London for a major French bank for risk monitoring with over 20 million files scanned to date. I am highly impressed with the performance and scalability of such a tool and the outstanding level of support received from CIMCON at all stages of deployment.

- Christian Delmotte, Project Manager , EUC Controls Project for $58 billion Major French Bank

CIMCON's EUC Insight Change Management provides us with more control and visibility into our high-risk spreadsheets at multiple departmental levels than we have ever had before.

- CIO, Global U.S. based Investment Management Firm

We chose CIMCON after a rigorous RFP process and were impressed by the commitment to ensure the solution delivered everything on our requirements list. The CIMCON tools have proved invaluable as we work through our “Finance Transformation” project and re-engineer processes around our spreadsheets.

— CFO, UK Insurance division of a $100 billion Global Bank

We chose CIMCON after a rigorous RFP process and were impressed by the commitment to ensure the solution delivered everything on our requirements list. The CIMCON tools have proved invaluable as we work through our “Finance Transformation” project and re-engineer processes around our spreadsheets.

— CFO, UK Insurance division of a $100 billion Global Bank