IT Assessments and Audits

IT Assessments and Audit

GRC is skilled in assisting clients in implementing appropriate information systems, resources, and controls to maximize efficiencies and minimize risk and in performing information technology control and security engagements.

The specialized nature of IT audit and assurance require specialized skills necessary to perform such audits. GRC uses standards popularized by organizations like ISACA to do the audit and provide assurance in line with global, mandatory standards.

We use internationally accepted guidelines to achieve implementation of the standards, use professional judgment in their application, and can analyze and justify any departures. By using standardized tools and procedures in our audit engagements, we comply with international standards while providing effective frameworks based on our clients requirements.

We use the COBIT governance framework and supporting tool sets to bridge the gaps between control requirements, technical issues and business risks. We enable clear policy development and good practice for IT control throughout enterprises, While emphasizing regulatory compliance, we also help enterprises increase the value attained from IT, enabling business alignment.

Objectives:

Provide Auditing and Consulting services in the following fields:

                   AI  Information Systems Audit, Systems risk management and reliability assessments.

                    IT Security,  IS Business Process outsourcing, IS quality assessments, especially w.r.t to AI

                   Provide quality services comparable to the top international consulting and auditing firms.

Specialized services:                    

                    IS Risk management, security, audits, and consulting, with special focus AI and Generative AI

                    Focus on IS Auditing and IS Security Auditing services.

Key Benefits:

      Following are some key benefits of  hiring us to do your Information Systems Auditing:

IS Risk Management and Security Assurance.  AI risk based focus. 

                       Review and evaluation of all aspects (or any portion) of  automated information processing systems
(including related non-automated processes, and the interfaces between them) and between agents and AI

                      Information Assets are safeguarded and their use properly accounted for

                      Determine whether IT controls exist and are functioning properly.  Controls for AI agents

Recommendations are made for appropriate improvements in IT controls and AI controls.

                       IS Management plans, policies and procedures are carried out and executed efficiently and effectively, especially to address new    technologies like AI and Cloud computing . 

IT SECURITY ASSESSMENTS  and AI security assessments.

IT Security Audit involves the  professional assessment of the company’s information security needs and an audit of the security of the organization’s information systems.  The document link below gives an overview of our methodology in performing the IT Security Audit process:

IT Security Audit overview

To enable organizations do IT security audits, different international standards are in existence. ISO 7799, is a one such detailed security standard. It is a comprehensive set of controls comprising best practices in information security and is intended to serve as a single reference point for identifying a range of IT security controls.

This  link  gives an ISO 7799 overview and details the main sections of the standard.

The IS Security Audit involves a lot of varied systems and specializations. The complexity of the audit increases with the scale of the systems used and the criticality and sensitive nature of the information being processed and used

This link gives a flavor of the various  Key Areas of IS Security Audit  that are potentially part of the Security Audit process. Thus the level of training, skill set and staff involved varies with each organization that has to be audited and each audit occurrence.