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SOX

SOX Compliance

BalkanID simplifies your journey to SOX compliance by becoming your identity and access control plane, detecting SoD conflicts in real time, governing privileged access to financial systems, and producing continuous evidence that external auditors can rely on.

What teams tell us before they switch

We detect SoD violations during the audit, not before it. By then, the external auditor already found them. Every year we're in remediation mode instead of prevention mode.
Our ERP has 400 custom roles and no clean ownership model. Quarterly access certifications take six weeks and the approvals are mostly rubber stamps. Nobody actually knows what they're certifying.
We have a documented process for emergency access to financial systems. What we don't have is proof that it was followed every single time. That's the finding.
What is SOX?

The law that made financial
integrity an IT problem.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires publicly traded companies to establish and attest to effective internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR). Section 404 mandates annual management and external auditor assessment. IT General Controls are the access and change management controls that underpin every automated financial control. SOX auditors test four domains most rigorously: user access management, segregation of duties, privileged access, and change management. BalkanID addresses the first three directly, with continuous evidence that survives external scrutiny.
How BalkanID addresses SOX

SoD enforcement before the
auditor finds it. Not after.

Six capabilities built around the IT General Controls SOX external auditors test in every engagement, with real-time detection and continuous evidence.
Real-time Segregation of Duties (SoD) detection
BalkanID continuously analyzes role assignments across financial systems to detect SoD conflicts, a user who can both create and approve a vendor, request and authorize a payment, or post and review a journal entry. Conflicts are flagged the moment they occur, not discovered during the audit. Remediation workflows route to the right owner automatically.
Quarterly access certifications with full evidence
SOX best practice requires access certifications at minimum quarterly, more frequently for privileged accounts and financial ERPs. BalkanID automates the campaign, surfaces risk-ranked decisions to business process owners, tracks completion, and stores immutable evidence per cycle. Auditors get a timestamped record without a manual evidence assembly sprint.
Privileged & emergency access governance (JITPBAC)
SOX auditors look for proof that emergency access to financial systems was granted through an approved workflow, monitored, and revoked immediately after. JITPBAC delivers exactly this, every break-glass or elevated session is purpose-bound, logged with approver and ticket, and auto-revoked. No session goes undocumented, no elevated access lingers.
HRIS-driven JML for financial system access
Orphaned accounts, access that persists after an employee leaves, are one of the most common SOX audit findings. BalkanID's HRIS-triggered offboarding revokes financial system access automatically, verifies completion across every connected system, and logs the evidence. No ticket-dependent process, no manual cleanup, no finding.
Least-privilege RBAC across ERP & financial systems
SOX requires that access to financial reporting systems follows least-privilege principles. BalkanID enforces RBAC centrally, aligned to HRIS job functions. Role changes trigger automatic access recertification. The RBAC matrix is auditor-exportable as point-in-time evidence for any quarter.
Non-human identity governance for financial workflows
Automated financial workflows, interfaces between ERP systems, scheduled batch jobs, API integrations, run under service account identities frequently excluded from access reviews. BalkanID brings these non-human identities into the same certification and governance process, eliminating a common gap auditors flag.
Identity scope for SOX

Human. Non-human. Agentic.
All in one governance plane.

SOX applies to every identity that can access financial reporting systems. Automated processes and service accounts are not exempt, they're where auditors increasingly look.
Human Identities
Finance & accounting staff
IT administrators (ERP, systems)
Executives with financial access
Contractors & third parties
Offboarded (verified deprovisioned)
Non-Human Identities
ERP integration service accounts
Batch job & scheduled task IDs
API tokens for financial interfaces
Shared / functional financial accounts
Reporting automation identities
Agentic AI Identities
AI copilots with ERP access
RPA bots in financial workflows
Autonomous reconciliation agents
AI-driven reporting processes
Purpose-scoped AI financial sessions
Access reviews

Quarterly certifications that
actually mean something.

SOX requires access reviews for every system in ICFR scope, including ERP modules and legacy financial tools your previous IGA platform excluded.
Connected financial systems
Native connectors · SCIM / REST
Entitlements pulled in real time and risk-ranked. SoD conflicts surfaced automatically. Business process owners review only what needs human judgment.
Workday
Oracle ERP
SAP
NetSuite
Salesforce
QuickBooks
AWS
Azure AD
Active Directory
Automated evidence
Custom financial applications
Internal apps · REST / GraphQL
Treasury, reporting, and reconciliation tools built in-house connect via BalkanID's API or a custom connector. Same SoD logic, same evidence trail.
Treasury management systems
Internal reporting platforms
Custom consolidation tools
Custom connector
Legacy ERP & financial systems
No API · No SCIM · On-premise
AI operators govern legacy financial systems at the UI layer, no API required. Your SOX scope doesn't have a carve-out for systems that predate REST APIs.
SAP R/3 · Oracle E-Business Suite
Legacy general ledger systems
On-premise payroll applications
AI operator

Schedule a demo to see how BalkanID can help you with your SOX audit.

Reduce Audit Effort. Increase Compliance Confidence.