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What is NetSuite Governance, Risk and Compliance?

NetSuite’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) capabilities empower customers to establish the right controls to meet risk objectives, then monitor and report on the effectiveness of those controls. Built-in processes are designed to handle increasingly complex regulatory, operational and compliance challenges as companies grow. Automation allows for greater efficiency, reduces risk and enhances your ability to track data changes for enhanced financial integrity.

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Compliance in the Cloud

NetSuite is built for the cloud and equipped with features to secure sensitive data, including credit card and personally identifiable information. NetSuite is externally audited to SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 (SSAE18 and ISAE 3402) standards as well as ISO 27001 and 27018, PCI DSS and PA DSS.

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NetSuite Governance, Risk, and Compliance Benefits

  • Trust and Accuracy. Stakeholders can trust that financial statements, documentation of transactions and reporting are accurate and complete.
  • Protected Assets. Secure your data with role-based access, strong encryption, robust password policies and more.
  • Reduce the Risk of Fraud. Continuous monitoring of key financial controls through saved searches, alerts and emails, robust reporting and role-based dashboards detect potentially fraudulent activity.
  • Facilitating Audits. The ability to easily monitor and validate controls in NetSuite — and verify that controls are working as intended — supports the integrity of financial statements.

NetSuite Governance, Risk and Compliance Features

NetSuite transforms governance, risk and compliance management to help you realise savings and improve business results. It’s time to move away from a costly, inefficient and reactive compliance approach — NetSuite enables a built-in, sustainable GRC process that anticipates and proactively manages risk on an ongoing basis.

Automate Controls

NetSuite includes a host of extensible, automated controls, with powerful search and reporting capabilities. Easily automate and tailor the Suite with custom preventative and detective controls using workflows, SuiteScripts, saved search alerts and custom fields. Automating these processes minimises or even eliminates labor-intensive and error-prone back-end reviews.

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Audit Trails

Role-based security, user access management and authentication models are easily understood, managed and audited. Robust, always-on audit trails for configuration, customisation, administrative and master data changes allow finance leaders and auditors to quickly and easily investigate activity with the potential to impact security, controls or financial statements.

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Third-Party Audit Reports

NetSuite provides a superior compliance foundation with an array of supporting independent reports and certificates — including SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, TX-RAMP, EU Cloud CoC and more — to meet your organisation’s risk and control requirements and ensure the accuracy of financial statements. Further, NetSuite's partners extend and deepen our native functionality, so you can confidently anticipate and address changes in security, segregation of duties and configuration while automating your control processes.

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Security Monitoring

NetSuite employs overlapping technologies and processes to tightly control access to its networks and applications. Unauthorised data center access attempts are blocked, and unauthorised connection attempts are logged and investigated. Enterprise-grade antivirus software blocks malware before it can do damage.

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Audit and Compliance Reporting

Electronic audits are now common practice in many countries for both external and government tax auditors. NetSuite supports audit file formats for SAF-T (all OECD countries), GDPdU (Germany), IAF for Singapore and many more. With NetSuite, you get an always-on audit trail, built-in analytics, access logs and workflow management. The ability to drill down — from summary reports to underlying transaction details — provides transparency so companies can demonstrate ongoing compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements.

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Securing Master Data

NetSuite provides features to secure master data, including:

  • Roles, permissions and restrictions
  • Groups and audiences
  • Scripts and workflows
  • Multifactor authentication
  • IP-address restrictions
  • Field-level security
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Challenges NetSuite Governance, Risk and Compliance Solves

  • User Access Management. Roles assigned to individual users control the pages they can access and the tasks they are allowed to complete.
  • Inconsistent Transaction Approval. Improve auditability by setting up customised workflows to process and enforce approvals.
  • Inability to Identify Security Vulnerabilities. Security and vulnerability scans are performed regularly by NetSuite, eliminating the need to perform these scans manually.

How Much Does NetSuite Governance, Risk and Compliance Cost?

Companies of every size, from pre-revenue startups to fast-growing businesses, have made the move to NetSuite. Looking for a better way to run your business but wondering about the cost?

Users subscribe to NetSuite for an annual licence fee. Your licence is made up of three main components: core platform, optional modules and the number of users. There is also a one-time implementation fee for the initial set up. As your business grows, you can easily activate new modules and add users — that’s the beauty of cloud software.

Governance, risk and compliance capabilities are included with the NetSuite platform licence.

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