Prepare your company’s IT audit requirements with the IT audit resources and best practices linked in this blog post. 

1. Firewall Audit Work Program

Strengthen your network defenses by following our step-by-step firewall audit program for effective security, compliance and risk mitigation.

Unlock the power to transform your organization’s cybersecurity posture with our Firewall Audit Work Program, a resource that puts effective firewall management within reach. This tool delivers actionable strategies and proven methodologies to help safeguard critical network infrastructure, streamline compliance and minimize security risks. This program empowers organizations to take control of their firewall environment, ensuring every component is configured, monitored and maintained to the highest standards.

2. Service-Level Agreement Questionnaire

Optimize your service-level agreements with this questionnaire covering key requirements, escalation actions and IT performance standards.

Our Service-Level Agreement Questionnaire is designed to help organizations assess and enhance their operational reliability and customer satisfaction. By providing a structured framework for evaluating IT services, performance metrics and escalation processes, this tool empowers organizations to proactively identify gaps, streamline communication and ensure consistent delivery standards. Its approach makes it invaluable for businesses seeking to strengthen trust with customers and maintain a competitive edge through robust service management.

3. Corporate Intranet Security Audit Work Program

Enhance corporate intranet security by focusing on access controls, secure coding practices and data protection measures.

This Corporate Intranet Security Audit Work Program aims to enhance your organization’s security posture. It is designed to systematically assess user access, content management and technical architecture within the corporate intranet, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected from unauthorized access. By employing a structured approach, this audit program identifies potential vulnerabilities and provides organizations with actionable insights to bolster compliance and operational integrity. This tool is a valuable asset for any organization looking to secure its intranet resources while fostering trust among users.

4. IT Data Management Audit Work Program

Identify, assess and strengthen IT data management controls for ensuring data security, integrity and regulatory compliance.

Our IT Data Management Audit Work Program serves as a resource for organizations seeking to enhance their data management practices. This tool is designed to help businesses identify vulnerabilities, ensure compliance with regulatory standards and establish robust data security policies. This program enables organizations to strengthen their data governance frameworks, fostering greater stakeholder confidence while ensuring the protection of critical information assets. It provides a structured methodology for evaluating and enhancing data management processes, positioning it as an indispensable resource for organizations striving to achieve superior standards in IT data management.

5. IT Disaster Recovery Plan Assessment Checklist

Evaluate your existing IT disaster recovery plan with best-practice questions for pre-planning, plan development and testing.

This tool is designed to help organizations evaluate their existing IT disaster recovery plans. It provides two sample assessment checklists, each with a series of best-practice questions tailored for regulated entities, like banking or SEC-regulated firms, and non-regulated entities. 

6. IT Continuity Review Audit Work Program

Leverage this audit tool to identify gaps and implement best practices for effective IT continuity and business resilience.

This IT Continuity Review Audit Work Program serves as an essential resource for organizations seeking to enhance their IT disaster recovery and continuity planning. This tool provides a structured framework for evaluating existing IT continuity processes, identifying potential risks and ensuring that critical systems can recover swiftly in the event of disruption. By utilizing this tool, organizations can improve their resilience against unforeseen challenges, align their IT strategies with business continuity objectives and ultimately safeguard their operations. The clear guidance and actionable insights offered by this audit program make it an asset for businesses committed to maintaining operational stability.

7. Database Audit Work Program

This tool includes two sample audit programs that provide steps organizations can take to perform a database administration review audit.

This tool includes two sample audit programs that provide steps organizations can take to perform a database administration review audit. Sample steps include: ensure that passwords are unique and renewed regularly, ensure password encryption, ensure that object privileges that grant a user the right to access and possibly manipulate data within an object or the right to execute stored procedures exist, ensure that product profiles exist that limit user access to certain database commands or products, and ensure that roles are created and assigned to users as a means of granting them the necessary privileges to perform their duties.

8. IT Help Desk Audit Work Program

Effectively assess the IT help desk's role in supporting critical business functions and enhance IT service delivery.

Ensure a smooth and efficient IT help desk process with this sample audit program. It outlines critical tasks such as assessing management's evaluation of user support, identifying help desk customers, and analyzing the staffing adequacy relative to user needs. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of technology leverage, encouraging the examination of using help desk software for tracking and reporting issues.

9. IT General Controls Assessment Report

Get a comprehensive view of your internal controls with our IT audit report, highlighting essential findings and strategic recommendations.

Discover the benefits of our IT General Controls Assessment Report, specifically focusing on critical areas such as logical access, operations management, change management and the system development lifecycle (SDLC). It provides an executive summary outlining the background, audit objectives, scope of work, significant findings and conclusions, and offers detailed observations and agreed-upon action plans to address issues related to those critical areas.

10. Application Audit Work Program

This tool includes four audit program samples that can be used by organizations to evaluate and improve business unit application controls.

This tool includes four audit program samples that can be used by organizations to evaluate and improve business unit application controls. Sample 1 focuses on a detailed audit process designed to ensure the integrity and security of application functionalities within your organization. This sample includes several critical steps, beginning with the planning phase where the audit team conducts a meeting to outline the scope, approach and timing of the audit. The fieldwork phase involves independent testing to assess the functionality, calculations and query integrity of the application.

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