If you are an Internal IT Auditor chances are that your bandwidth is choked between all the manual audit activities and following up with various IT and technology teams in getting their data and reports. This becomes more complicated when each of the IT layers are outsourced to different vendor partners.
You do not have to do that anymore. AllOps, our AI/ML Driven Platform is built to serve auditors like you.
AllOps has been built with sophisticated platform using modern technologies on data collection, data aggregation, machine learning, analytics and pattern recognition.
AllOps gathers near real time data across 50+ enterprise tools like JIRA, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Jenkins, Gitlab, Sonar, Selenium, Github, Delphix, Oracle, LDAP, Kubernetes and 200+ cloud services from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. It has the ability to collect close to real time from most of the enterprise tools. It then has a proprietary rules engine that can conduct automated audits on IT environments on-premise and on the cloud. It also produces dashboards and reports on key focus items. All of these are available for download with the click of a button on AllOps’s user interface. The various data sets collected, and their audit results can also be viewed by the auditors using AllOps’s simple to use user interface.
AllOps’s automated process from data collection to audit report generation can be seen below.
Some of the most common issues identified in IT audits include:
● Lack of penetration testing or vulnerability scanning
● Remote access without 2-factor authentication
● Lack of Segregation of Duties
● Lack of a centralized log management
● Not having an intrusion prevention system, or failing to manage and monitor it
● Insufficient data loss prevention systems
● Out-of-date networks or operating systems
● Lack of current network architecture and data flow drawings
● Lack of mandatory security testing and quality review checks in the release process
● Insufficient thresholds in software testing
With AllOps, the above kind of issues and much more can be identified in an automated manner. A Sample set of checks done with AllOps can be seen in the below screenshot –
In addition to automating audit checklist like above, AllOps also provides the following advantages to the auditors like you.
Sampling Risk
When performing an audit, data samples are often selected since it is not practical to manually test a full population of large data sets. Selecting samples, which are representative of the population, means that internal auditors test only a small percentage of control executions manually.
With an automated solution like our Platform, auditors now have the option to choose a much larger sampling set.
Audit Frequency
When performed manually, audits can only be performed once per month at best, and once per quarter or six months in some cases. With an automated approach you can perform audits more frequently, even daily.
Deviations
When there are issues identified in audit reports, it can sometimes be too late or too painful and expensive to correct. With a continuous automation using AllOps, issues can be identified much sooner (almost the same day or hour in many cases) leading a much faster and less painful resolution.
Abnormal Scenarios
Many of the abnormal scenarios are very hard to spot in audit findings especially when rolled up at a higher granularity. But AI and Machine Learning driven platforms like AllOps helps to identify abnormal or exception behaviors as and when they occur by analyzing millions of events per minute. For example, if unapproved users were provide higher privileges, certain release processes were modified with temporarily or if some log records were removed or tampered with, then these kind of scenarios are harder to detect in a manual process, while can be detected with high degree of accuracy with platforms like AllOps.
Audit Committee Reporting
A large portion of management time in audit is spent in reporting. Audit reports go to the chief audit executive (CAE) and onward to the audit committee. Traditionally, they are lengthy, verbose reports that take significant time to complete. With AllOps many of the audit reports are auto generated and available for download with the click of a button. This saves a lot of time and effort for auditors.
If you would like to get a peek into our advanced platform and start generating more frequently, timely and accurate audit reports, please reach us at automate@wintpl.com.