CISA Notes

Forecasting the Future for IT Audit

The winds of change continue to blow through the IT auditing field, according to the 5th Annual IT Audit Benchmarking Survey conducted by ISACA® and Protiviti. In the wake of ongoing technological advances, businesses are being repeatedly disrupted and transformed. This is the dynamic environment in which IT audit leaders and functions must operate and succeed.

More than 1,200 survey respondents cited 10 primary issues of concern for IT audit professionals this past year. Chief among them is managing innovation: the challenge of balancing efficiency gains from new technologies with risks from emerging threats. All of these survey results and their implications are discussed in the new White Paper—A Global Look at IT Audit Best Practices—available FREE for download today!
http://www.isaca.org/knowledge-center/research/researchdeliverables/pages/a-global-look-at-it-audit-best-practices.aspx

A Global Look at IT Audit Best Practices ISACA and Protiviti partnered to conduct the fifth annual IT Audit Benchmarking Survey in the third quarter of 2015. This global survey, conducted online, consisted of a series of questions grouped into five categories:

‘Twas the Night Before Audit

By Kathleen M. Stetz

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www.isaca.org/About-ISACA/-ISACA-Newsletter/Pages/@-isaca-volume-24-2-december-2015.aspx

@ISACA Volume 24 | 2 December 2015 When people do not feel well, they consult a doctor and describe their symptoms. The doctor needs to find out why the patient feels ill, which requires knowing the answers to a series of questions. Some questions will be answered by the patient and some questions need to have tests performed to gath…

Reinventing Our Processes

By Peter T. Davis, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, COBIT FC/IC/AC, CISSP, CPA, CMA, CMC, ITIL FC, ISO 27001 LI/LA, ISO 27005/31000 RM, ISO 20000 FC, ISO 9001 FC, ISO 28000 FC, ISTQB CTFL, Lean IT FC, Open FAIR FC, PMI-RMP, PMP, PRINCE2 FC, SSGB
http://www.isaca.org/COBIT/focus/Pages/reinventing-our-processes.aspx

Reinventing Our Processes Some COBIT processes focus on the need to reinvent your organization. Innovation (as in COBIT 5 process APO04 Manage innovation), for example, is always a matter of reinventing, reengineering or continually improving. Successful businesses are always in a constant process of reinvention. If you are…