As you know, a majority of companies use Microsoft environment in their business. Let’s not discuss all the positives and negatives of such decision here, but try to focus on how we usually perform IT audit at such environments. There are various methods of performing IT audit at Windows environment, and i would like to [...]

While performing different types of IT audit, we always need to look at IT security. Let’s look at the main aspects of how we should audit IT security.
First of all let me divide the IT security into two different streams – 1) logical IT security and 2) physical IT security.
So, when I perform audit IT [...]

In recognition of Deloitte’s acquisition of the BearingPoint North American Public Services, M&A Advisor has awarded Deloitte top honors in two categories at The M&A Advisor 8th Annual M&A Awards. Financial advisor to Deloitte during the acquisition, Houlihan Lokey, and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, legal counsel, are co-recipients of the [...]

Ernst & Young’s IFSG or Islamic Financial Services Group in the Middle East has been awarded the ‘Best Islamic Advisory Firm’ award at the Islamic Business & Finance Awards 2009 ceremony. Held on 14th December, 2009 this event was organized by CPI Financials, the region’s leading specialist financial publisher. 
Bishr Baker, Partner [...]

72 per cent of business and IT (Information Technology) executives have stated that their organizations now place more importance on the IT functions of their companies than they did before the financial crisis. They also view IT as a solution to their economic problems and a means to get out of the [...]

All the Big Four firms recently made Fortune”s 2009 “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, though not at the very top as we have become very accustomed to seeing in BusinessWeek or Diversity or Working Mothers magazine. Nonetheless a very creditable performance against a tough crowd of equally impressive and [...]

Lets talk today about it audit controls.
In order to start this conversation, lets make it clear for everyone what the term control stands for. I will try to explain it as i understand it. To do it the best, lets look at the example. Lets take the Change Management process – in this process there [...]

My life changed in Summer 2005. At that time i decided to became an IT Auditor. It seemed very strange for some of my friends, as my university studies were all about programming skills. Most of my university friends became programmers – some are working in Web programming, some develop different billing systems. And i [...]

Today it is impossible to operate any business without a computerized application systems. You can look at different countries – from United States of America and Canada to India, Russia or any other. All businesses in these countries operate their financial and operational needs using information technology (IT) systems.
Their data is stored in different databases [...]

Today I would like to discuss different IT audit tools and techniques, which I use during performing information technology audits. Let’s look at the particular example of one IT audit from my recent practice.
The client background is following. The size of the organizations is approximately 3000 employees located in different regions of one country. Client [...]