IT strategic

Download free IT Quality Assurance Checklist. This checklist used to review the IT Quality Plan and IT Quality Assurance within an organization. This cover the IT System Development Methodology and how is the roles of IT standard,

Download free Security Baseline Toolkits, this simple toolkits help you design your security baseline within IT system. This toolkits help you to create easy to be implemented security baseline, covers such as:
1. Assign system roles
2. Inventory individual systems
3. Evaluate vulnerability/patch applicability
4. Evaluate level of exposure
a. Internal

1. Is there an executive directive/statement to ensure there is an information security architecture that includes risk, governance, ethics, compliance, privacy, and protection of enterprise assets? Are enterprise roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities defined? Are the executive team and the board of directors on the same page?

2. Are there data/information requirements stating that it must be available, accessed by need to know or have, and in the most accurate format?

3. Are staff required to acknowledge policies on new hire and termination, and at regular intervals? Are the staff types of enterprise network access defined? Is an enterprise asset defined?

Fraud is the intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right. In the business community, the primary goal of fraud is often monetary gain.

Fraud prevention programs are essential to set the right tone for an effective internal control framework. In addition, strong internal controls provide better opportunities to detect and deter fraud. Because of this, it is important to assess whether management has implemented formal communication mechanisms, internal controls, and internal or external oversight processes to effectively prevent or deter fraud. This could include the identification of fraud risks in an entity­-wide risk assessment program; or establishing a separate risk assessment program that considers the vulnerability of the company to fraudulent activities.

In reviewing the procurement and contract negotiation process, the IT auditor can look for the following tasks to be accomplished:

1. Does the contract accurately re. ect the organization’s requirements and have appropriate levels within the organization veri. ed them?
2. Have the requirements been translated into measurable acceptance criteria that can be monitored and verified?
3. Ensure that the RFP contains the needs and requirements.
4. A process for evaluating the contractor bids includes thorough evaluation of how they will meet requirements.