What is an RPA CoE? Session 3 – CoE Architecture

How do Systems, Information Security, and Solutions enable the CoE?

Topics covered:

• Is the organization a public one and how does that impact automations?

• What type of resources are available to build a pipeline?

Speaker:

Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems

1. Standing up a COE

2. Environment

3. 3
1.Session 1 –Vision
2.Session 2 –Roles
3.Session 3 –Environment
4.Session 4 –Scaling
Agenda Slide

4. 4
Systems–
“A design system isn’t a project. It’s a product serving products.”

5. 5
Publicly Traded Corporation and many Private
Organizations with Outside Auditors
•Sarbanes Oxley
•Controlling Controls
•Best Friends with Internal Audit
•Contact with External Auditor familiar with RPA
•Agreed upon process of passing automation opportunities, PDDs and other documents
through internal audit during discovery.
•Subject COE and RPA practice to Technical Audits.
•Limiting roles in ERP Systems.
•Multi-factor authentication
•Credential Stores
Controls to Consider

6. 6
Public Sector Clients
•FedRAMP
•Authorization, standardization, assessment and monitoring of cloud solutions
•Solution approval can take months, even years
•Automation deployment is a longer process that passes through multiple
layers of security and vetting.
•Layers of documentation and fact-finding
•Highly secure systems
•Onboarding staff for projects can take months until security clearances are
completed
•Using government hardware
Controls to Consider

7. 7
Architecture
•Service Accounts?
•Remote Servers?
•Citrix
•Server Maintenance
•Patches
•SaaS Solutions
•Release Notes
•System Upgrades
•Production Deployment
•Who deploys
•Source Control
Access Policies