Information & System Audit

An information technology audit, or information systems audit, is an examination of the controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. An IT audit is the process of collecting and evaluating evidence of an organization's information systems, practices, and operations. IT DETERMINES safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of Audit.

Purpose
An IT audit is different from a financial statement audit. While a financial audit's purpose is to evaluate whether an organization is adhering to standard accounting practices, the purposes of an IT audit are to evaluate the system's internal control design and effectiveness. This includes efficiency and security protocols, development processes, and IT governance or oversight. THIS DETERMINES the organization's ability to protect its information assets and properly dispense information to authorized parties.

Characteristic of today's organizations is abundance of information and information systems. Frequently, information and its support technologies are frequently regarded as the most valuable assets. In the rapidly changing work environment, expectations related to benefits from information technologies are high. Therefore management emphasize that information systems should demonstrate ever-enhancing quality, higher functionality, easier use, a shorter delivery period and ever-improving service levels.

Companies appreciate the benefits they gain from an effective and updated information system. However, there are inherent risks associated with it as new technologies are implemented are not fully conceived. Also that issue is not considered in the risk analysis of business processes. Still, successful organizations perceive and manage the risks related to the implementation of new technologies. For this they establish the required quality, reliability and security demands to their information systems. At the same time, they demand that the above mentioned requirements be realized at an expense as small as possible.

ITPL offers an auditing service involving evaluation of an organization and its information system AS PER requirements and practices of IT management. In addition, you can benefit from our experience regarding the evaluation of the conformity of different stages of the software development process to the standards of the development process.

To help an enterprise fully realize the potential of its IT investments, Our Consulting brings to the table superior expertise in streamlining an enterprise's processes and maximizing returns. By securing IT processes more tightly around the enterprise's business objectives, ITPL enables a greater cost benefit ratio to the enterprise.

More and more organizations across the world are concerned with the investments in IT versus derived and perceived benefits. We review the complete IT infrastructure, Networking, Business Applications, Data Security and controls. Primary focus of this audit is to protect the information assets in line with business risks. Audit is conducted with the help of comprehensive audit checklists and necessary audit tools.

Deliverables – A report of findings on IT management, performance and availability. The report includes recommendations with solutions to be implemented.

We have a team of Chartered Accountants with additional qualifications and CISA professionals having good expertise of IS audit.