Periodically auditing the way your business runs can help you identify problems and ensure established procedures are followed. An audit -- which can be conducted by internal staff members or an ...

Audits are an essential, if tedious, part of a company’s risk management strategy. Before the advent of cloud computing, compliance and audit teams had manual procedures and checklists in place to ...

Compliance and regulations are an increasingly important factor in business processes and operations. In addition to introducing good quality control, these standards demand proven, documented, ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Security incidents are only growing in number—according to ISACA’s 2019 State of Cybersecurity survey report, part 2, 46 percent of respondents believe that their ...

One of internal audit's values is to tell management when the controls to manage risks and assure opportunities aren't working. Internal audit should have a plan for the work it will do, and by now we ...

Management will take actions they believe are high priority and in their own interests. They won't if the only reason to act is “the auditor told us to do it." I recently wrote about an inherent ...