Improve your IT resilience and security posture with our IT Data Management Audit Work Program, evaluating data management and IT audit effectiveness. By outlining specific project steps, including tactical alignment and technology leverage, this work program enables you to assess the effectiveness of data governance, stability and reliability within your organization. It highlights critical risk indicators, such as the absence of a comprehensive data management plan and issues related to data integrity and availability, which can impact decision-making and operational efficiency.

The program also emphasizes the importance of documenting processes related to data backup, archiving and problem resolution, ensuring the identification of areas for improvement. Furthermore, it encourages the use of automated tools for monitoring database performance and establishing service-level agreements (SLAs) to enhance accountability and performance measurement. Ultimately, this work program equips you with the necessary tools and insights to identify weaknesses in data management, recommend best practices, and foster a collaborative relationship between IT and business units.

Risk indicators of potential problems include:

• A comprehensive data management plan (which defines goals and policies for the collection, structure and management of data assets) does not exist.
• Users and managers lack confidence in the availability, integrity or relevancy of data.
• Processes to collect, process and distribute data and information are duplicated.
• Frequent and costly logical or physical database reorganization is needed to support new business processes.