IS Audit for a completely Safe and Secured information System in your Organization
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To identify and to rectify weakness, intrusions, unauthorized access, coding errors and any other data theft and to scrutinize the whole information system of an organization IS a process IS Audit is carried out.
With an aim to offer complete security and to ensure reliable data storage to the customers, IS Audit is done. By conducting Information audit, you can offer reliable and completely secured services to your customers. The information system audit give complete idea about the strength of you IS system, and other working methods and give suggestion for error mitigating and improvement. By following the suggestions, the company or entity can improve their security level and method of management.
Furthermore, your organization can eliminate data leakage, data loss, data tampering and poor management, and offer trustworthy information to the authorized users, and ensure data confidentiality, integrity which ae the scope of secured service.
IS Audit Process and Phases
An expert audit service provides who is authorized for this task is deployed to do Audit process. The auditor along with a team of security experts withing the organization or outsourced experts go through analysis process. The analysis process includes checking of the whole IS system, connected gadgets, third party websites and accessibility, authorized user’s data, and gathering information from different departments and auditing and so on. The status of IS audit is based on the strength and ability of the information system to the website and the organization against error occurrence, data modification, unauthorize user accessibility anytime to the end users. Most significantly, the whole system must be capable of creating a backup should there be any natural calamities, theft, or intrusions.
The IS auditing process involves different phases such as
Assessing vulnerability of IS:This is the first step of auditing process which involves the identification of the vulnerability chances of all the applications within the organization. The probability of computer misuse and neglects is very common and is high, is high level information system audit is required in the applications.
Recognition of sources of threat:The chances of computer abuse depend on the type of application and the quality of controls and people such as programmers, data entry operators, analysts, data providers, users, hardware and software services, PC users, computer security specialists, etc. the auditor need to identify the right source.
Identification of high-risk points: this process involves the identification of risk points, strengths, and levels of risk and how it could affect the whole system or the Ares that could be affected by the weakness.
Report generation: Based on the vulnerability and penetrations tests, auditing process, scanning and other using other tools and techniques a complete report on IS audit process is generated. This report also includes high potential points, people’s activities, abuses, and so on. Proper improvement suggestions and security practices are given to the management.
Scope of Audit:
The IS audit may cover almost all the reserves of IT infrastructure which includes assessment of hardware, data resources, application software, and the people. This will ensure complete safety of your organization.