COBIT DSS06 Compliance
Business Process Controls
What is COBIT DSS06?
COBIT DSS06 (Deliver, Service, and Support 06) focuses on business process controls to ensure IT services and applications operate in a secure, consistent, and controlled manner.
Its objective is to protect data integrity, monitor transactions, and prevent operational errors or fraud within enterprise processes.
Key DSS06 requirements:
- Transaction Integrity: Ensure data accuracy and consistency across business processes.
- Process Monitoring: Track execution of business processes to detect anomalies.
- Segregation of Duties: Prevent fraud through separation of roles and responsibilities.
- Access Validation: Confirm only authorized users can execute transactions.
- Audit Trails: Maintain logs of business process activities.
- Corrective Measures: Detect and resolve process failures quickly.
How Visual Guard facilitates DSS06 compliance:
RBAC and SoD enforcement:
Restrict access to transactions based on business roles while enforcing segregation of duties.
Audit and traceability:
Log every transaction and user action to maintain full process accountability.
MFA authentication:
Apply additional verification for sensitive or high-value operations.
Real-time monitoring:
Detect unauthorized or abnormal transactions across business processes.
Compliance reporting:
Provide auditors with transparent and exportable activity records.
Detailed technical capabilities
Access & Role Management
- Role-based and context-aware access policies
- Segregation of duties enforcement to prevent conflicts of interest
Audit & Monitoring
- Immutable audit logs for transaction monitoring
- Configurable alerts for process violations and anomalies
Compliance Reporting
- Compliance-ready reporting supporting DSS06 audits
Use case
Enforcing process integrity in ERP systems
A global manufacturing organization must comply with DSS06 by securing ERP system transactions and preventing process misuse or fraud.
How Visual Guard helped:
- Restricted transaction execution based on department roles.
- Required MFA for high-value or sensitive operations.
- Monitored transaction logs and anomalies in real time.
Result: The company strengthened process integrity, reduced fraud risks, and demonstrated DSS06 compliance.