361 Consulting - Boulder, Colorado

Our service offerings are consistent with our consultants’ core expertise, and are geared toward improving your IT risk profile and value proposition. The following list is intended to be representative of the skill set our firm provides. Your consulting needs may not fall into one of these categories – if not, we’ll build an engagement approach that clearly fits your objectives.

Technology Risk Management Services:

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance: Whether you are preparing for your initial SOX 404 audit or conducting subsequent year maintenance, our consultants can assist you with the complex and dynamic requirements of the Sarbanes regulations. We have worked with a number of respected Colorado companies on their SOX projects, and we have interacted with all of the major audit firms during these projects. Our consultants understand the regulations and we are skilled at finding efficient and effective ways to reach and maintain compliance.
Technology Security Services: If you are preparing for an audit, striving to achieve regulatory compliance, or working to ensure that your information assets are appropriately protected, our consultants can help in a number of ways. We can assess your security environment—including Internet, Intranet, Web-based systems, wireless networks, remote access and specific application systems—from an internal or external perspective. Our assessment can include review of administration procedures, security policies and procedures, and enterprise-wide security risk evaluation. Our consultants can also help you build or enhance your security organization through development of policies and procedures, design of security components, gap remediation, strategic direction and ongoing support.
IT Audit Planning and Risk Assessment: Our consultants are experienced in planning and executing technical internal audits. We can help your Audit organization through practical risk assessments, communication with audit committees, and solution of resource allocation issues. We can also provide report-writing assistance, using our vast experience to provide well-written, thoughtful reports to your audit clients.
IT Audit Staff Augmentation: Qualified technical Internal Audit staff are difficult to find and costly to maintain. Let our staff help you meet your audit objectives, whether for one-off projects that require a technical skill set that you don’t have, or to alleviate capacity constraints on more general projects. Our staff are skilled in audit delivery in a variety of technologies and business processes. All have functioned in either internal or external audit capacities for clients in a variety of markets and industries.
Technical and Process Training: Our consultants can help you improve your audit organization’s performance through knowledge building in a variety of technologies and business processes. If your audit team faces the daunting task of a technical audit that they’re just not prepared for, our team can help them maximize the effectiveness of the audit, and minimize the in-field training overhead for nearly any project.
IT Audit Project Management and Review: If your audit staff has the universe covered, but you just don’t have time to manage the projects and review the results, our senior consultants can help. We have substantial experience in audit project management and presentation of findings to audit clients. We’ll work with your audit management and staff to ensure that reports and findings are developed and presented in the most effective way possible. And we’ll work with your team to ensure that the audit project stays on track throughout its life cycle, reporting on a regular basis to your audit management along the way.

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	Services
	Our service offerings are consistent with our consultants’ core expertise, and are geared toward improving your IT risk profile and value proposition. The following list is intended to be representative of the skill set our firm provides. Your consulting needs may not fall into one of these categories – if not, we’ll build an engagement approach that clearly fits your objectives. Information Technology Services: IT Strategy and Execution Assessment: Often referred to as an “IT Health Check,” this service is an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of your IT organization. Clients typically engage this service when considering a significant undertaking, such as a system implementation, or subsequent to a change in IT leadership. Our engagement will provide information about your IT’s ability to conduct the kind of project you’re thinking about, or we can provide more general feedback about your ability to enable your business plan in a complex and changing market. IT Project Management: Our consultants are experienced project managers in a variety of disciplines. If your IT staff are overloaded, let our consultants take some of their load. Also, we are skilful in vendor management – that is, helping your business deal with the myriad issues that necessarily arise in relationships with technology vendors. Our firm has no on-going relationships with vendors – our commitment is to you, and we can help manage these relationships with the objective of maximizing the value to your business. Package Selection and Implementation: Whether your needs are financial, manufacturing, or customer relationship management, our consultants can help your business select the best software solution from a vast and confusing market. The key to a successful selection is the up-front requirements identification work. We’ll work with your team to ensure that your requirements are addressed. Then we’ll match those requirements to vendor solutions using a proven methodology that ranks requirements and ranks solutions’ ability to meet them. Once you’ve approved the selection, we’ll work with your IT and user organizations to implement the solution, again using standard, proven methodologies. IT Strategic and Tactical Planning: Many companies have a simple IT strategy: Serve their business as well as possible within resource and budget constraints. Typically, this approach to IT results in the “squeaky wheel getting the grease,” with the other aspects of the business getting attention when and where possible. Our consultants can help you with resource planning and management, budget issues, task prioritization, communication with business units, and any other aspect of your IT planning. Technology Risk Management Services: Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance: Whether you are preparing for your initial SOX 404 audit or conducting subsequent year maintenance, our consultants can assist you with the complex and dynamic requirements of the Sarbanes regulations. We have worked with a number of respected Colorado companies on their SOX projects, and we have interacted with all of the major audit firms during these projects. Our consultants understand the regulations and we are skilled at finding efficient and effective ways to reach and maintain compliance. Technology Security Services: If you are preparing for an audit, striving to achieve regulatory compliance, or working to ensure that your information assets are appropriately protected, our consultants can help in a number of ways. We can assess your security environment—including Internet, Intranet, Web-based systems, wireless networks, remote access and specific application systems—from an internal or external perspective. Our assessment can include review of administration procedures, security policies and procedures, and enterprise-wide security risk evaluation. Our consultants can also help you build or enhance your security organization through development of policies and procedures, design of security components, gap remediation, strategic direction and ongoing support. IT Audit Planning and Risk Assessment: Our consultants are experienced in planning and executing technical internal audits. We can help your Audit organization through practical risk assessments, communication with audit committees, and solution of resource allocation issues. We can also provide report-writing assistance, using our vast experience to provide well-written, thoughtful reports to your audit clients. IT Audit Staff Augmentation: Qualified technical Internal Audit staff are difficult to find and costly to maintain. Let our staff help you meet your audit objectives, whether for one-off projects that require a technical skill set that you don’t have, or to alleviate capacity constraints on more general projects. Our staff are skilled in audit delivery in a variety of technologies and business processes. All have functioned in either internal or external audit capacities for clients in a variety of markets and industries. Technical and Process Training: Our consultants can help you improve your audit organization’s performance through knowledge building in a variety of technologies and business processes. If your audit team faces the daunting task of a technical audit that they’re just not prepared for, our team can help them maximize the effectiveness of the audit, and minimize the in-field training overhead for nearly any project. IT Audit Project Management and Review: If your audit staff has the universe covered, but you just don’t have time to manage the projects and review the results, our senior consultants can help. We have substantial experience in audit project management and presentation of findings to audit clients. We’ll work with your audit management and staff to ensure that reports and findings are developed and presented in the most effective way possible. And we’ll work with your team to ensure that the audit project stays on track throughout its life cycle, reporting on a regular basis to your audit management along the way.

361 Consulting Inc. 624 South Arthur Avenue, Suite 110, Louisville, CO 80027 720-956-0998 info@361consulting.com