Audit Reports Reports are essential to provide insights on historical data, trends and to facilitate statistical analysis of network behavior. They are useful when security administrators have to submit periodic information on the security posture of the network to IT managers and auditors to make well-informed security decisions. Reports also ensure that the company's IT and regulatory policies are complied with. Security Manager Plus comes with a set of comprehensive, canned reports to aid security administrators. There are also p…
Tips for Writing Better Audit Reports By Lisa R. Young, CISA, CISM Effectively communicating audit results requires clear and unambiguous language, evidentiary-based support, and knowledge of the audience that will receive the report. An audit report is designed to provide information, persuade the readers to take action, and convince management to change or improve something. How we say things makes a difference. A well-written audit report is a call to action, whereas a poorly written report can result in erroneous action or no action …
So You Want to Be an IT Auditor? Practitioners need a combination of technical and people skills to forge a career in auditing technology. Cliff Donathan A recent news headline asked, “Is Knight’s $440 million glitch the costliest computer bug ever?” According to the CNN Money article , in less than one hour, a defect in Knight Capital Group’s software caused its computers to execute a series of orders that were supposed to be spread over several days. “Computers do what they’re told,” says Lawrence Pingree, an analyst at Gartner. “…
Audit & Assessment What’s The Difference? So, what’s the difference between and Audit and an Assessment? Essentially it is in the degree of formalism involved. An Audit is usually against some formal definition or standard, which may be externally defined, such as ISO -27001 or PCI : DSS , or a law or regulation such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the US or the Canadian PIPEDA. Such audits will have a clearly defined methodology and a clear report of the degree of conformance. Management should think of the deficiencies reporte…
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