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Compliance focus shifts to SOX rather than HIPAA — access reviews, SoD conflicts, audit logging, and the 24-hour termination rule are all framed around Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.

Payment systems are treated as P1 — AP automation tools (Coupa, Basware), BACS/ACH portals, and SAP F110 payment runs get the same urgency as clinical systems in healthcare.

BEC/Fraud gets its own article given how heavily finance teams are targeted — includes wire transfer fraud, payroll redirect, and vendor impersonation patterns.

Month-end close is called out as a high-impact window (equivalent to on-call periods in clinical IT), with a recommendation to elevate all finance tickets one priority level during that time.