Reducing barriers to adoption of CCM through alarm management

The benefits of continuous controls monitoring (CCM) have been recognized for some time. Increasing regulatory requirements, the enhanced complexity of technology, and pressures to decrease expenses have driven the need for boosting productivity when evaluating the effectiveness of controls.1 As business processes have become more complex and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been implemented, large amounts of data have become available to many people within an organization, necessitating the need for CCM.