Auditing IT Initiatives- Assessing Implementation

Each of these areas poses significant risk to an organization during the actual implementation. An independent and objective audit of IT initiative’s implementation “preparedness” is recommended (for all “significant” IT projects).Implementing a new system generally requires a variety of system changes, production data conversion and migration, and new operational policies and procedures.

This Webinar will show you:

• How to assess an IT initiative’s implementation “preparedness”
• How to reduce your IT risk

What Attendees will Learn:

• Introduction to auditing
• Audit scope
• What is the goal?
• Planning efforts
• Audit risk assessment
• Audit objectives
• Audit approach
• Audit phases
• What auditors like to see
• The 8 basic audit steps
• Audit testing
• Other considerations
• The audit report

Who Will Benefit:

• IT Auditors
• Internal Auditors
• Chief Audit Executives
• Project Managers
• Project Sponsors
• Executive Management with oversight responsibilities, (for implementing IT initiatives)
• IT Management
• Quality and Software Testing Professionals
• Risk Managers (IT and Business Unit)

Instructor Profile:

Dan Swanson CMA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, CAP President and CEO, Dan Swanson & Associates is a 24-year internal audit veteran, who most recently was director of professional practices at the Institute of Internal Auditors. Prior to the IIA, Swanson was an independent management consultant for over 10 years Swanson has completed more than 50 IT preparedness audits – (over the course of way too many years).Swanson recently led the writing of the OCEG internal audit guide for use in audits of compliance & ethics programs (www.oceg.org) and participated in the COSO small business task force efforts to provide guidance for smaller public companies regarding internal control over financial reporting (www.coso.org) .The author of more than 75 articles on internal auditing and other management topics, Swanson is currently a freelance writer, an independent management consultant, and regular columnist for Compliance Week and IT Compliance Institute (ITCI).

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