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Information Technology Audit

Information technology audit

Information and Technology Audit

(Also known as "IT Audit")

An information technology audit, or information systems audit, is an examination of the management controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. The evaluation of obtained evidence determines if the information systems are safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively to achieve the organization's goals or objectives. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of attestation engagement.

 

What is the purpose of an IT Audit ?

The purposes of an IT audit are to evaluate the system's internal control design and effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to, efficiency and security protocols, development processes, and IT governance or oversight. Installing controls are necessary but not sufficient to provide adequate security. People responsible for security must consider if the controls are installed as intended, if they are effective if any breach in security has occurred and if so, what actions can be done to prevent future breaches. These inquiries must be answered by independent and unbiased observers. These observers are performing the task of information systems auditing. In an Information Systems (IS) environment, an audit is an examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and processing.

 

The primary functions of an IT audit are to evaluate the systems that are in place to guard an organization's information. Specifically, information technology audits are used to evaluate the organization's ability to protect its information assets and to properly dispense information to authorized parties. The IT audit aims to evaluate the following:

 

  • Will the organization's computer systems be available for the business at all times when required? (known as availability)
  • Will the information in the systems be disclosed only to authorized users? (known as security and confidentiality)
  • Will the information provided by the system always be accurate, reliable, and timely? (measures the integrity)

 

In this way, the audit hopes to assess the risk to the company's valuable asset (its information) and establish methods of minimizing those risks.

 

Types of IT audits we provide

Technological position audit

This audit reviews the technologies that the business currently has and that it needs to add. Technologies are characterized as being either "base", "key", "pacing" or "emerging".

 

Systems and Applications Audit

 An audit to verify that systems and applications are appropriate, are efficient, and are adequately controlled to ensure valid, reliable, timely, and secure input, processing, and output at all levels of a system's activity. System and process assurance audits form a subtype, focussing on business process-centric business IT systems. Such audits have the objective to assist financial auditors.

 

Information Processing Audit

 An audit to verify that the processing facility is controlled to ensure timely, accurate, and efficient processing of applications under normal and potentially disruptive conditions.

 

Systems Development Audit

 An audit to verify that the systems under development meet the objectives of the organization, and to ensure that the systems are developed in accordance with generally accepted standards for systems development. 

 

Management of IT and Enterprise Architecture Audit

An audit to verify that IT management has developed an organizational structure and procedures to ensure a controlled and efficient environment for information processing.

 

Client/Server, Intranets, and Extranets Audit

An audit to verify that telecommunications controls are in place on the client (computer receiving services), server, and on the network connecting the clients and servers

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