Legislative, economic, and organizational pressures are increasing the challenges the IT departments in any establishment face. Thus, any organization relies on their internal and/or external IT auditors to offer an independent and objective assessment of the controls, reliability, and integrity of organization’s IT environment. At TAG-ITI, we follow the international COBIT standards as our guidance in IT Audit. Within the auditing domain TAG-ITI offers IT Audit Outsourcing/Co-sourcing, Internal IT Audit Function Establishment, IT Audit Tactical Planning, Application Audit, Software Assets Management (SAM) Audit, IT Policies and Procedures Development, and Information Security Procedures and Policies Development
- IT Audit Outsourcing/Co-sourcing
Outsourcing or co-sourcing your organization's internal audit will create a partnership that addresses current and potential risks. This assessment evaluates the controls, reliability and integrity of the organization’s IT infrastructure. Accordingly, it will help your organization maintain or improve its efficiency and effectiveness in IT risk management, internal controls, and corporate governance.
- Internal IT Audit Function Establishment
This offers services to set up an audit function within your organization based on your business needs and IT strategies. With recent regulatory requirements, the push to have an internal audit function, the need for strong risk management and internal control monitoring have never been greater. TAG-ITI can help you avoid the pitfalls and miscues associated with internal audit start-ups by combining a strategic framework with tactical execution to provide the foundation for an effective internal audit function.
- IT Audit Tactical Planning
In the case where an IT Audit function is already established and there is a need for developing IT Audit plans, TAG-ITI can offer IT Audit Tactical Planning. TAG-ITI has a pool of IT Audit experts that can assist your organization in developing a comprehensive IT Audit plan that covers all areas of organizational risks, to help your own IT auditors implement these plans.
- Application Audit
An Application Audit is a specific audit of one application. It mainly involves evaluating the performance, scalability or security of an application. This service involves auditing applications against a series of benchmarks and criteria, and providing a detailed written report of audit findings along with a series of recommendations for addressing issues identified.
- Software Assets Management (SAM) Audit
SAM protects your organization's software through performing a software inventory, matching software licenses, and reviewing policies and procedures.
- IT Policies and Procedures Development
TAG-ITI develops IT standard procedures and policies to assist clients achieve greater employee efficiency. TAG-ITI develops IT procedures to describe a best practice approach in executing tasks related to hardware and software maintenance, as well as incident and change management. TAG-ITI can also assist your organization to develop IT policies that are essential to protect the IT investments of the organization. The IT policy will assist in maintaining systems at operational level, where managers are responsible for ensuring adherence to the IT policy within their departments. Well-written IT procedures and policies provide direction, improve communication, reduce training time, and improve work consistency.
- Information Security Procedures and Policies Development
The development of security policies is critical to the implementation of a successful risk management strategy in any organization. Besides providing a strong compliance mechanism for risk management, a good IT Security Policy ensures the proper usage of network and system resources and minimizes abuse or misuse by internal and external parties. TAG-ITI helps you translate your risk mitigation needs into useful and practical IT Security Policies which can be clearly communicated to all levels in your organization.
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