The Problem
You're spending weeks building audit frameworks from scratch, reverse-engineering compliance controls, and second-guessing your risk coverage, only to find gaps during regulatory review. Manual processes and fragmented templates slow down your team and increase exposure. This playbook eliminates the guesswork, giving you a proven system built specifically for IS audits in the insurance sector.
What You Get
12-Module Course (132 Lessons):
- Foundations of Insurance Industry IS Audit and Regulatory Landscape
- Risk-Based Audit Planning for Carriers and Brokers
- Core Control Frameworks: Mapping NIST, ISO 27001, and SSAE 18 to Insurance Operations
- Third-Party Vendor Risk Assessment in Policy Administration Systems
- Claims Processing System Audits: Data Integrity and Access Controls
- Cloud Infrastructure Audits for Insurtech Platforms
- Automated Policy Underwriting Systems: Algorithmic Bias and Auditability
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Testing for Core Insurance Systems
Implementation Toolkit (40-48 Files):
- ✅ Actuarial Risk Exposure Matrix with Severity Scoring
- ✅ Insurance-Specific IS Audit Maturity Assessment (5-Level Model)
- ✅ Regulatory Gap Analysis Template: State DOI, HIPAA, GLBA, and NYDFS 500
- ✅ Audit Scope Decision Framework for P&C, Life, and Health Lines
- ✅ Cloud Migration Audit Roadmap with Pre- and Post-Transition Controls
- ✅ Claims System Access Control Review Checklist
- ✅ Third-Party Vendor Audit Package for Core Admin Platforms (Guidewire, Duck Creek)
- ✅ Policy Underwriting Algorithm Audit Runbook
- ✅ KPI Dashboard for Audit Cycle Time, Findings Closure Rate, and Repeat Deficiencies
- ✅ Data Privacy Compliance Tracker for Customer PII Across Systems
- ✅ Incident Response Audit Playbook with RTO/RPO Validation Steps
- ✅ Internal Audit Stakeholder Map with Influence/Interest Grid for CISO, CFO, CRO
How It Is Organized
Start with the course to build a structured, insurance-specific foundation in IS audit principles. Each module builds your knowledge in sequence, no prior framework required. Once you understand the core concepts, move directly to the Implementation Toolkit to apply them. The 10 practitioner journey folders guide you from initiation to sustainment: Getting Started gives you onboarding checklists and priority assessments; Assessment & Planning includes audit scoping tools and risk models; Models & Frameworks provides mappings to regulatory standards; Processes & Handoffs streamlines coordination with IT and compliance; Operations & Execution contains runbooks and checklists; Performance & KPIs tracks audit effectiveness; Quality & Compliance ensures consistency and defensibility; Sustainment & Support helps maintain control rigor; Advanced Topics covers AI, cloud, and insurtech audits; and Reference holds all supporting materials, including regulatory citations and control libraries.
This Is For You If
- You have been asked to build an IS audit program for an insurance carrier or managing general agent and need to show a credible plan by next quarter
- Your team is using outdated checklists that don't reflect modern policy administration or claims systems
- You're preparing for a NYDFS 500 or SOC 2 audit and need to close control gaps quickly
- You're auditing a cloud-based underwriting platform and aren't sure which access controls to validate
- You're spending too much time creating reports for the CRO and board instead of doing high-value audit work
What Makes This Different
The course gives you the structured, insurance-specific knowledge most auditors spend years accumulating. The toolkit gives you the exact files you need to implement, no reformatting, no guesswork. Together, they cover the full journey from understanding risk to executing defensible audits.
Every template is designed to be filled in on your first day. The Excel workbooks include working tabs with formulas pre-built for scoring risk and tracking maturity. The Pro Tips sections reveal what regulators actually look for, common missteps in claims system audits, and how to handle pushback from IT teams during access reviews.
This was built by a team with 25 years of combined experience leading IS audits at top-tier insurers and audit firms. We've seen what fails and what stands up under scrutiny. You get the complete system, no piecing together fragments from blogs, webinars, or generic IT audit guides.
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This playbook gives you a complete, field-tested system: a structured course to build your expertise and ready-to-use implementation files to execute with confidence. You avoid months of research, template building, and trial-and-error. Focus your time on high-impact audit work, not reinventing the foundation.
