Information Systems Audit Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Information Systems Audit Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Information Systems Audit related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Information Systems Audit specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Information Systems Audit Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Information Systems Audit improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Where your organization transfers records to an archives service, has it provided a contact point for consultation on the access decision?
   
   

2. How does management ensure that the objectives of each functional area or department are consistent with the objectives for the system?
   
   

3. Have you been trained on work procedures, organization and site requirements as well as safe procedures for performing assigned tasks?
   
   

4. How does management get information about the resources and constraints of your organization and of each of the functional areas?
   
   

5. Does the review evaluate the need for changes to the quality management system, including quality policy and quality objectives?
   
   

6. Does the policy require for the policy and the implementation plan to be regularly reviewed and assign responsibility for this?
   
   

7. Which type of security control focuses on preventing unauthorized access by enforcing user identification and authentication?
   
   

8. Has someone been assigned the responsibility of reviewing your organizations record management policy at agreed intervals?
   
   

9. Is there evidence of statutory notifications/local authority paperwork in place where the complaints require escalation?
   
   

10. Is the tprm approach to have a single risk owner for the enterprise or to have ownership embedded in the business area?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Information Systems Audit book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Information Systems Audit self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Information Systems Audit Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Information Systems Audit areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Information Systems Audit Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Information Systems Audit projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Information Systems Audit Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Information Systems Audit project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Executing Process Group: What is the shortest possible time it will take to complete this Information Systems Audit project?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Matrix: How are the local factors going to affect the absorption?
   
   

3. Activity Cost Estimates: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Information Systems Audit project?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Does the business case include how the Information Systems Audit project aligns with your organizations strategic goals & objectives?
   
   

5. Cost Management Plan: Do all stakeholders know how to access this repository and where to find the Information Systems Audit project documentation?
   
   

6. WBS Dictionary: Are direct or indirect cost adjustments being accomplished according to accounting procedures acceptable to us?
   
   

7. Team Performance Assessment: To what degree is there a sense that only the team can succeed?
   
   

8. Activity Cost Estimates: Who & what determines the need for contracted services?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Consider the changes in the job market for information technology workers. How does the job market and current state of the economy affect human resource management?
   
   

10. Procurement Audit: Was there reasonable justification for the need of the purchase, namely when made towards the end of the financial year?


 
Step-by-step and complete Information Systems Audit Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Information Systems Audit project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Information Systems Audit project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Information Systems Audit project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Information Systems Audit project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Information Systems Audit project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Information Systems Audit project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Information Systems Audit project with this in-depth Information Systems Audit Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Information Systems Audit projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Information Systems Audit and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Information Systems Audit investments work better.

This Information Systems Audit All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.