IT Audit Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IT 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 995 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IT Audit improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 995 standard requirements:


1. What are the specific laws and regulations governing export and import control systems in the country or region where the organization operates, and how do these requirements impact the design and implementation of the IT system?
   
   

2. How do IT financial management and accounting systems ensure that financial records and documentation are properly maintained, retained, and disposed of in accordance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements?
   
   

3. How does the organization assess the insurance coverage and risk transfer mechanisms of its IT third-party dependencies, including liability insurance, errors and omissions insurance, and business interruption insurance?
   
   

4. How does the IT audit function engage with stakeholders, including business leaders and IT management, to gain an understanding of their needs and expectations from the IT enterprise architecture management practices?
   
   

5. How does the organization assess the IT risks associated with third-party vendors' dependencies on other third-party vendors or suppliers, and what are the procedures for monitoring and reviewing these dependencies?
   
   

6. How does the organization ensure that its IT third-party dependencies comply with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, including data protection, cybersecurity, and intellectual property requirements?
   
   

7. How does the organization define and categorize third-party vendors based on their level of access to sensitive data or critical systems, and what are the different risk assessment requirements for each category?
   
   

8. What is the process for conducting due diligence on new third-party vendors, including reviewing their IT security policies and procedures, and assessing their compliance with relevant regulations and standards?
   
   

9. What is the process for evaluating the IT risks associated with third-party vendors' use of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, and how are these risks assessed and mitigated?
   
   

10. What procedures are in place to ensure that IT enterprise architecture management practices are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect changes in the organization's business strategy or technology landscape?
    
    


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 IT Audit book in PDF containing 995 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your IT 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 IT Audit Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which IT 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 IT 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 IT Audit projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Operating Agreement: Why does your organization want to participate in teaming?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Do all stakeholders know how to access this repository and where to find the IT Audit project documentation?
   
   

3. Procurement Audit: Are the responsibilities of the purchasing department clearly defined?
   
   

4. Procurement Audit: Are bank accounts reconciled by an individual independent of the disbursement responsibilities?
   
   

5. Lessons Learned: What regulatory regime controlled how your organization head and program manager directed your organization and IT Audit project?
   
   

6. Cost Management Plan: Does a documented IT Audit project organizational policy & plan (i.e. governance model) exist?
   
   

7. Human Resource Management Plan: Are target dates established for each milestone deliverable?
   
   

8. Activity Duration Estimates: Which types of reports would help provide summary information to senior management?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Do appropriate controls ensure that procurement decisions are not biased by conflicts of interest or corruption?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Are resource rates available to calculate IT Audit project costs?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IT Audit project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IT 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 IT 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 IT 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 IT 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 IT 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 IT Audit project with this in-depth IT Audit Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IT 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 IT 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 IT Audit investments work better.

This IT 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.