Adam Russell is a senior IT audit associate with Schellman based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before joining Schellman, Adam worked as a senior internal auditor at a large credit union specializing in compliance and IT auditing. Adam led and supported various other projects, including application implementations, the enterprise-wide risk assessment, and the associate internal auditor training program. Adam also spent approximately three years with a large national CPA firm performing financial statement and federal government expenditure audits and has obtained his CPA, CISSP, CIA, CISA, and CCSK. He has almost five years of experience in serving clients in the healthcare, financial services, government, and not-for-profit industries and is now focused on SOC audits for organizations across various industries.

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How to Effectively Leverage Your Vendors' SOC 2 Reports: Tips for Internal Audit & Risk Professionals

By: Adam Russell
October 5th, 2023

Internal Audit (IA) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) professionals are often charged with reading SOC reports from service providers to gain an understanding of each vendor’s controls, but many may not know how you can also use these reports to also enhance, mature, and drive their own audit and governance functions.