IT audit

Today many top managers are worried by the business conditions in the sphere of ensuring business needs in the resources of IT-services. Quite frequently now, because of rapid growth, companies can’t handle with all indexes of IT-service activity.

 In order to gain an understanding of current state of affairs in the realm of IT exploitation, to uncover problem zones, that needs to be paid attention to effective IT exploitation, there has to be a careful inspection of organization’s IT-infrastructure and an audit of IT.

Tasks that have to have an IT audit to be solved

Audit is conducted with the goal to investigate conditions of IT of the company on purpose to reveal the level of automation of the basic business processes, to show up the risks and how they effect on business in the case of such incidents.

And also to find out deviation in methodology of development and control of IT-services from requirements and guidance to international standards.

Main advantages the company gains after IT audit

Main advantages the company gets, as the result of guided audit we can conditionally separate into 2 categories – direct and oblique.

Direct are: auditor’s report, including facts about current conditions of IT- service with recommendations about an optimization of IT-infrastructure and principals of IT enterprises management.

To oblique or indirect we can relate:

	Rise processes clarification and interrelation between abilities of IT- service and demands of business elements.
	Increase of stockholders loyalty to the management of the organization.
	Rise of loyalty of inner clients of IT-service
	Getting a tool for planning and decisions making

Under the results of IT-audit the general direction of IT-elements of the organization   could be regulated.