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Automated assessments not only incorporate that data, but also respond to software monitoring reports and changes to server and file settings.\r\nSecurity audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing are the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">three main types of security diagnostics. </span>Each of the three takes a different approach and may be best suited for a particular purpose. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Security audits</span> measure an information system's performance against a list of criteria. \r\nA <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">vulnerability assessment,</span> on the other hand, involves a comprehensive study of an entire information system, seeking potential security weaknesses. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Penetration testing</span> is a covert operation, in which a security expert tries a number of attacks to ascertain whether or not a system could withstand the same types of attacks from a malicious hacker. In penetration testing, the feigned attack can include anything a real attacker might try, such as social engineering. Each of the approaches has inherent strengths, and using two or more of them in conjunction may be the most effective approach of all.\r\n\r\n\r\n","materialsDescription":"<h1 class=\"align-center\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is a security audit?</span></h1>\r\nA Security Audit is a process or event where the IT security policy or standards are used as a basis to determine the overall state of existing protection and to verify whether existing protection is being performed properly. It aims to determine whether the current environment is securely protected in accordance with the defined IT security policy.<br />Before performing a security assessment or audit, the organization should define the scope of the security audit, and the budget and duration allowed for the assessment/audit.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How often should a security audit be performed?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit only provides a snapshot of the vulnerabilities in a system at a particular point in time. As technology and the business environment changes, periodic and ongoing reviews will inevitably be required. Depending on the criticality of the business, a security audit might be conducted yearly, or every two years.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who should perform a security audit?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit is a complex task requiring skilled and experienced personnel; it must be planned carefully. To perform the audit an independent and trusted third party is recommended. This third party can be another group of in-house staff or an external audit team, dependent on the skills of the internal staff and the criticality/sensitivity of the information being audited.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Security_Audit.png"},{"id":725,"title":"IT Audit","alias":"it-audit","description":"An information technology audit, or information systems audit, is an examination of the management controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. The evaluation of obtained evidence determines if the information systems are safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively to achieve the organization's goals or objectives. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of attestation engagement.\r\nIT audits are also known as automated data processing audits (ADP audits) and computer audits. They were formerly called electronic data processing audits (EDP audits).\r\nAn IT audit is different from a financial statement audit. While a financial audit's purpose is to evaluate whether the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, an entity's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity to standard accounting practices, the purposes of an IT audit is to evaluate the system's internal control design and effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to, efficiency and security protocols, development processes, and IT governance or oversight. Installing controls are necessary but not sufficient to provide adequate security. People responsible for security must consider if the controls are installed as intended, if they are effective, or if any breach in security has occurred and if so, what actions can be done to prevent future breaches. These inquiries must be answered by independent and unbiased observers. These observers are performing the task of information systems auditing. In an Information Systems (IS) environment, an audit is an examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and processing.\r\nThe primary functions of an IT audit are to evaluate the systems that are in place to guard an organization's information. Specifically, information technology audits are used to evaluate the organization's ability to protect its information assets and to properly dispense information to authorized parties. The IT audit aims to evaluate the following:\r\nWill the organization's computer systems be available for the business at all times when required? (known as availability) Will the information in the systems be disclosed only to authorized users? (known as security and confidentiality) Will the information provided by the system always be accurate, reliable, and timely? (measures the integrity) In this way, the audit hopes to assess the risk to the company's valuable asset (its information) and establish methods of minimizing those risks. ","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Is an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIn the typical software audit, your system administrators will be asked to show that software is not illegally loaded onto machines it shouldn’t be on, that the number of licenses matches up with the number of users or, if you purchased a bulk license, that you don’t exceed the bounds of that license. One thing you definitely don’t want to happen is for an auditor to find that an employee has brought a home version of a software package and installed it on his or her work computer.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Do Auditors Want?</span>\r\nIn short, software auditors want to know that companies are following the rules with regard to software licenses. How much slack they’ll give you if they find a minor violation depends on several factors. If you can show your company makes a good-faith effort to stay on top of all software license requirements, it could act in your favor.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Should We Do to Prepare for an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIf you have a strong IT asset management program in place, preparation for an audit is far less stressful. When you can easily create reports showing the number of copies installed, the number of licenses, license expiration dates, and hardware where the software is installed, you can create those reports in advance and look for potential problems. If you notice discrepancies, you can take steps to correct them before the auditors arrive.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How Can We Do a Self-Audit Beforehand?</span>\r\nPerforming periodic self-audits is not just busywork, but could potentially save your company a lot of money and embarrassment. The three main steps in a self-audit are: reading the vendor’s contract, gathering purchase information, and getting an accurate count of how many licenses are deployed:\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read the Contract</span> – Understand license types and models, including maintenance requirements. Learn if there are limitations on where the software can or cannot be used. For example, are you allowed to use it on laptops that travel outside the US?</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gather Purchase Information</span> – Know where to get your hands on purchase data. If you purchased from a reseller, make sure that the reseller passed on your purchase information to the vendor.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Get an Accurate License Deployment Count</span> – If your company has a solid IT asset management program, this shouldn’t be a challenge. Otherwise, you’ll need to manually locate receipts and serial numbers and match them up to the machines where the software is deployed.</li></ul>\r\nThe self-audit is much easier to do when you don’t have an actual audit staring you in the face.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Audit.png"},{"id":722,"title":"Audit","alias":"audit","description":" Audit is a check of the activity of an organization or system for compliance with laws, regulations and rules. The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. Along with the methods listed above, sociological surveys and point studies of representatives of the project’s target audience can be applied.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Environmental audit</span>\r\nEnvironmental audit of an enterprise is a comprehensive and independent assessment of compliance with requirements, including the requirements of existing international standards, regulations and regulations in the field of environmental safety, environmental management and environmental protection, as well as the preparation of relevant recommendations and their documentation for improving the activities of enterprises and organizations in the environmental field.<br /> ","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/100_Black_LineIcons_Business_original_vect59.png"}],"characteristics":[],"concurentProducts":[{"id":4354,"logoURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/BWise.png","logo":true,"scheme":false,"title":"Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Software Platform","vendorVerified":0,"rating":"0.00","implementationsCount":0,"suppliersCount":0,"supplierPartnersCount":0,"alias":"governance-risk-management-and-compliance-software-platform","companyTitle":"SAI Global | BWise","companyTypes":["supplier","vendor"],"companyId":6743,"companyAlias":"sai-global-bwise","description":"Key organizational risks can have a dramatic financial and reputational effect on an organization. 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The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. Along with the methods listed above, sociological surveys and point studies of representatives of the project’s target audience can be applied.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Environmental audit</span>\r\nEnvironmental audit of an enterprise is a comprehensive and independent assessment of compliance with requirements, including the requirements of existing international standards, regulations and regulations in the field of environmental safety, environmental management and environmental protection, as well as the preparation of relevant recommendations and their documentation for improving the activities of enterprises and organizations in the environmental field.<br /> ","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/100_Black_LineIcons_Business_original_vect59.png"},{"id":174,"title":"​System and Network Management Software","alias":"system-and-network-management-software","description":"System and network management software is used to manage all the computing resources for the end-user, small business, workgroup, or enterprise, including systems, applications, and the network infrastructure. This market does not include storage management and other storage software. System and network management software break down into the following categories: event management, workload scheduling and automation, output management, performance management, change and configuration management, problem management, and network management.\r\nCommercial tools for system and network management can provide numerous desirable features (e.g., graphical network maps, scalability to manage hundreds or thousands of servers or networks, automated long-term collection of performance information, OS health and event log monitoring, alert generation).\r\nAnalysts found that the best solution is a combination of commercial technologies, in combination with internally developed tools, across several large enterprises, and learned that you must consider several important factors when you select commercial management tools. First, make sure that the commercial tool meets the bulk of your requirements. (The product probably won’t meet all your needs, which is why you also need in-house tools.) Second, how easily can you roll out the product, and how much training will your team need before you can capitalize on your investment? Analysts recommend that if you can evaluate demonstration software first, do so. If you can wait to purchase management software until you’ve tested it in your lab, ensured that it will integrate with your existing in-house or third-party tools, and successfully rolled it out to your production environment.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is the difference between a network operating system and a network-management software?</span>\r\nDifference between network operating system and network management software:\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Network operating system</span>\r\n<ul><li>The network operating system is used to controls computer systems and network devices and permits them to communicate with one another.</li><li>The network operating system performs the same functions for the network as operating system software does for a computer...</li></ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Network management software</span>\r\n<ul><li>Network management software is used to monitor, discover, provision and maintain computer networks.</li></ul>","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/_System_and_Network_Management_Software.png"},{"id":840,"title":"ICS/SCADA Cyber Security","alias":"icsscada-cyber-security","description":"SCADA security is the practice of protecting supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks, a common framework of control systems used in industrial operations. These networks are responsible for providing automated control and remote human management of essential commodities and services such as water, natural gas, electricity and transportation to millions of people. They can also be used to improve the efficiencies and quality in other less essential (but some would say very important!) real-world processes such as snowmaking for ski resorts and beer brewing. SCADA is one of the most common types of industrial control systems (ICS).\r\nThese networks, just like any other network, are under threat from cyber-attacks that could bring down any part of the nation's critical infrastructure quickly and with dire consequences if the right security is not in place. Capital expenditure is another key concern; SCADA systems can cost an organization from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. For these reasons, it is essential that organizations implement robust SCADA security measures to protect their infrastructure and the millions of people that would be affected by the disruption caused by an external attack or internal error.\r\nSCADA security has evolved dramatically in recent years. Before computers, the only way to monitor a SCADA network was to deploy several people to each station to report back on the state of each system. In busier stations, technicians were stationed permanently to manually operate the network and communicate over telephone wires.\r\nIt wasn't until the introduction of the local area network (LAN) and improvements in system miniaturization that we started to see advances in SCADA development such as the distributed SCADA network. Next came networked systems that were able to communicate over a wide area network (WAN) and connect many more components together.\r\nFrom local companies to federal governments, every business or organization that works with SCADA systems are vulnerable to SCADA security threats. These threats can have wide-reaching effects on both the economy and the community. Specific threats to SCADA networks include the following:\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Hackers.</span> Individuals or groups with malicious intent could bring a SCADA network to its knees. By gaining access to key SCADA components, hackers could unleash chaos on an organization that can range from a disruption in services to cyber warfare.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Malware.</span> Malware, including viruses, spyware and ransomware can pose a risk to SCADA systems. While malware may not be able to specifically target the network itself, it can still pose a threat to the key infrastructure that helps to manage the SCADA network. This includes mobile SCADA applications that are used to monitor and manage SCADA systems.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Terrorists.</span> Where hackers are usually motivated by sordid gain, terrorists are driven by the desire to cause as much mayhem and damage as possible.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Employees.</span> Insider threats can be just as damaging as external threats. From human error to a disgruntled employee or contractor, it is essential that SCADA security addresses these risks.\r\nManaging today's SCADA networks can be a challenge without the right security precautions in place. Many networks are still without the necessary detection and monitoring systems and this leaves them vulnerable to attack. Because SCADA network attacks exploit both cyber and physical vulnerabilities, it is critical to align cybersecurity measures accordingly.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is the difference between ICS/SCADA cybersecurity and information security?</span>\r\nAutomated process control systems (SCADA) have a lot of differences from “traditional” corporate information systems: from the destination, specific data transfer protocols and equipment used and ending with the environment in which they operate. In corporate networks and systems, as a rule, the main protected resource is information that is processed, transmitted and stored in automated systems, and the main goal is to ensure its confidentiality. In ICS, the protected resource, first of all, is the technological process itself, and the main goal is to ensure its continuity (accessibility of all nodes) and integrity (including information transmitted between the nodes of the ICS). Moreover, the field of potential risks and threats to ICS, in comparison with corporate systems, expands with risks of potential damage to life and health of personnel and the public, damage to the environment and infrastructure. That is why it is incorrect to talk about “information security” in relation to ICS/SCADA. In English sources, the term “cybersecurity” is used for this, a direct translation of which (cybersecurity) is increasingly found in our market in relation to the protection of process control systems.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Is it really necessary?</span>\r\nIt is necessary. There are a number of myths about process control systems, for example: “process control systems are completely isolated from the outside world”, “process control systems are too specific for someone to crack”, “process control systems are reliably protected by the developer”, or even “No one will ever try us, hacking us is not interesting. ” All this is no longer true. Many modern distributed process control systems have one or another connection with the corporate network, even if the system owners are unaware of this. Communication with the outside world greatly simplifies the task of the attacker, but does not remain the only possible option. Automated process control software and data transfer protocols are, as a rule, very, very insecure against cyber threats. This is evidenced by numerous articles and reports of experts involved in the study of the protection of industrial control systems and penetration tests. The PHDays III section on hacking automated process control systems impressed even ardent skeptics. Well, and, of course, the argument “they have NOT attacked us, therefore they will not” - can hardly be considered seriously. Everyone has heard about Stuxnet, which dispelled almost all the myths about the safety of ICS at once.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who needs this?</span>\r\nWith the phrase ICS/SCADA, most imagine huge plants, automated CNC machines or something similar. However, the application of process control systems is not limited to these objects - in the modern age of automation, process control systems are used everywhere: from large production facilities, the oil and gas industry, transport management to smart home systems. And, by the way, with the protection of the latter, as a rule, everything can be much worse, because the developer silently and imperceptibly shifts responsibility to the shoulders of the user.\r\nOf course, some of the objects with automated process control systems are more interesting for attackers, others less. But, given the ever-growing number of vulnerabilities discovered and published in the ICS, the spread of &quot;exclusive&quot; (written for specific protocols and ICS software) malware, considering your system safe &quot;by default&quot; is unreasonable.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Are ICS and SCADA the same thing?</span>\r\nNo. SCADA systems (supervisory control and data acquisition, supervisory control and data collection) are part of the control system. Usually, a SCADA system means centralized control and management systems with the participation of a person as a whole system or a complex of industrial control systems. SCADA is the central link between people (human-machine interfaces) and PLC levels (programmable logic controller) or RTU (remote terminal unit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is ICS/SCADA cybersecurity?</span>\r\nIn fact, ICS cybersecurity is a process similar to “information security” in a number of properties, but very different in details. And the devil, as you know, lies in them. ICS/SCADA also has similar information security-related processes: asset inventory, risk analysis and assessment, threat analysis, security management, change management, incident response, continuity, etc. But these processes themselves are different.<br />The cyber security of ICSs has the same basic target qualities - confidentiality, integrity and accessibility, but the significance and point of application for them are completely different. It should be remembered that in ICS/SCADA we, first of all, protect the technological process. Beyond this - from the risks of damage to human health and life and the environment.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_SCADA_Cyber_Security.png"},{"id":836,"title":"DRP - Digital Risk Protection","alias":"drp-digital-risk-protection","description":"Digital risks exist on social media and web channels, outside most organization's line of visibility. Organizations struggle to monitor these external, unregulated channels for risks targeting their business, their employees or their customers.\r\nCategories of risk include cyber (insider threat, phishing, malware, data loss), revenue (customer scams, piracy, counterfeit goods) brand (impersonations, slander) and physical (physical threats, natural disasters).\r\nDue to the explosive growth of digital risks, organizations need a flexible, automated approach that can monitor digital channels for organization-specific risks, trigger alerts and remediate malicious posts, profiles, content or apps.\r\nDigital risk protection (DRP) is the process of protecting social media and digital channels from security threats and business risks such as social engineering, external fraud, data loss, insider threat and reputation-based attacks. 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This can be a cyber risk, like a phishing link or ransomware via LinkedIn, but can also include traditional risks with a digital component, such as credit card money flipping scams on Instagram.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the features of Digital Risk Protection?</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The features are:</span></span>\r\n<ul><li>Protecting yourself from digital risk by building a watchtower, not a wall. A new Forrester report identifies two objectives for any digital risk protection effort: identifying risks and resolving them.</li><li>Digital risk comes in many forms, like unauthorized data disclosure, threat coordination from cybercriminals, risks inherent in the technology you use and in your third-party associates and even from your own employees.</li><li>The best solutions should automate the collection of data and draw from many sources; should have the capabilities to map, monitor, and mitigate digital risk and should be flexible enough to be applied in multiple use cases — factors that many threat intelligence solutions excel in.</li></ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What elements constitute a digital risk?</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Unauthorized Data Disclosure</span></span>\r\nThis includes the theft or leakage of any kind of sensitive data, like the personal financial information of a retail organization’s customers or the source code for a technology company’s proprietary products.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Threat Coordination Activity</span></span>\r\nMarketplaces and criminal forums on the dark web or even just on the open web are potent sources of risk. Here, a vulnerability identified by one group or individual who can’t act on it can reach the hands of someone who can. This includes the distribution of exploits in both targeted and untargeted campaigns.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Supply Chain Issues</span></span>\r\nBusiness partners, third-party suppliers, and other vendors who interact directly with your organization but are not necessarily following the same security practices can open the door to increased risk.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Employee Risk</span></span>\r\nEven the most secure and unbreakable lock can still easily be opened if you just have the right key. Through social engineering efforts, identity or access management and manipulation, or malicious insider attacks coming from disgruntled employees, even the most robust cybersecurity program can be quickly subverted.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Technology Risks</span></span>\r\nThis broad category includes all of the risks you must consider across the different technologies your organization might rely on to get your work done, keep it running smoothly, and tell people about it.\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Physical Infrastructure:</span> Countless industrial processes are now partly or completely automated, relying on SCADA, DCS, or PLC systems to run smoothly — and opening them up to cyber- attacks (like the STUXNET attack that derailed an entire country’s nuclear program).</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">IT Infrastructure:</span> Maybe the most commonsensical source of digital risk, this includes all of the potential vulnerabilities in your software and hardware. 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The collective noun application software refers to all applications collectively. This contrasts with system software, which is mainly involved with running the computer.\r\nApplications may be bundled with the computer and its system software or published separately, and may be coded as proprietary, open-source or university projects. Apps built for mobile platforms are called mobile apps.\r\nIn information technology, an application (app), application program or software application is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. An application thus differs from an operating system (which runs a computer), a utility (which performs maintenance or general-purpose chores), and a programming tool (with which computer programs are created). Depending on the activity for which it was designed, an application can manipulate text, numbers, audio, graphics, or a combination of these elements. Some application packages focus on a single task, such as word processing; others, called integrated software include several applications.\r\nUser-written software tailors systems to meet the user's specific needs. User-written software includes spreadsheet templates, word processor macros, scientific simulations, audio, graphics and animation scripts. Even email filters are a kind of user software. Users create this software themselves and often overlook how important it is.\r\nThe delineation between system software such as operating systems and application software is not exact, however, and is occasionally the object of controversy. For example, one of the key questions in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system or a separable piece of application software. As another example, the GNU/Linux naming controversy is, in part, due to disagreement about the relationship between the Linux kernel and the operating systems built over this kernel. In some types of embedded systems, the application software and the operating system software may be indistinguishable to the user, as in the case of software used to control a VCR, DVD player or microwave oven. 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With electronic &amp; web site design services with programming, there are no such dangers, since you never really need to download and introduce anything on your neighborhood PC.</li><li>Utilizations a compensation as you go show – odds are your organization has bunches of programming applications it scarcely utilizes, however despite everything you need to pay for those projects. With electronic applications, you can utilize compensation as you go demonstrate and simply pay for the product you really utilize. What's more, obviously there is a lot of free yet proficient programming accessible too.</li><li>There is nothing to possess and keep up – when you purchase programming, you likewise need to purchase costly upkeep and bolster bundle, yet with programming as an administration, or SaaS, there are no such costs. There is nothing to possess, and you essentially utilize the program as you see fit.</li><li>Adaptability is the capacity to scale up rapidly is fundamental for little new companies. In the event that you arrive a lucrative new contract, you should have the capacity to scale your activities up rapidly to deal with the additional work and scale things down similarly as fast when the task has finished. 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Manual assessments include interviewing staff, performing security vulnerability scans, reviewing application and operating system access controls, and analyzing physical access to the systems. Automated assessments, or CAAT's, include system generated audit reports or using software to monitor and report changes to files and settings on a system. Systems can include personal computers, servers, mainframes, network routers, switches.\r\nAt its root, an <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">IT security audit</span> includes two different assessments. The manual assessment occurs when an internal or external IT security audit companies interview employees, reviews access controls, analyzes physical access to hardware, and performs vulnerability scans. \r\nAudit, performed by IT security audit services or IT security audit software, analyzes individual technical infrastructure components at a detailed level, ensuring that each is functioning in a manner that reinforces appropriate information security. The stakes are made higher with a number of regulatory compliance requirements mandating that IT audits be included in organizational due diligence efforts. These reviews should occur, at a minimum, annually. Some organizations, however, prefer to do them more frequently.\r\nOrganizations should also review system-generated reports. Automated assessments not only incorporate that data, but also respond to software monitoring reports and changes to server and file settings.\r\nSecurity audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing are the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">three main types of security diagnostics. </span>Each of the three takes a different approach and may be best suited for a particular purpose. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Security audits</span> measure an information system's performance against a list of criteria. \r\nA <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">vulnerability assessment,</span> on the other hand, involves a comprehensive study of an entire information system, seeking potential security weaknesses. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Penetration testing</span> is a covert operation, in which a security expert tries a number of attacks to ascertain whether or not a system could withstand the same types of attacks from a malicious hacker. 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The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. 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\">Эффективность – актуальность информации, соответствующего бизнес-процесса, гарантия своевременного и регулярного получения правильной информации.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Продуктивность – обеспечение доступности информации с помощью оптимального (наиболее продуктивного и экономичного) использования ресурсов.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Конфиденциальность – обеспечение защиты информации от неавторизованного ознакомления.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Целостность – точность, полнота и достоверность информации в соответствии с требованиями бизнеса.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Пригодность – предоставление информации по требованию бизнес-процессов.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Согласованность – соответствие законам, правилам и договорным обязательствам.</span></li><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Надежность – доступ руководства организации к соответствующей информации для текущей деятельности, для создания финансовых отчетов и оценки степени соответствия.</span></li></ol>\r\n<span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Результаты ИТ-аудита позволяют:<br /></span>\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Оценить соответствие ИС требованиям бизнеса, выявить недостатки и упущения</span></li></ul>\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; \">Эффективно планировать развитие ИС организации;</span></li></ul>\r\n<span style=\"color: rgb(86, 89, 94); font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 21px; 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The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. Along with the methods listed above, sociological surveys and point studies of representatives of the project’s target audience can be applied.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Environmental audit</span>\r\nEnvironmental audit of an enterprise is a comprehensive and independent assessment of compliance with requirements, including the requirements of existing international standards, regulations and regulations in the field of environmental safety, environmental management and environmental protection, as well as the preparation of relevant recommendations and their documentation for improving the activities of enterprises and organizations in the environmental field.<br /> ","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/100_Black_LineIcons_Business_original_vect59.png"},{"id":727,"title":"IT Security Audit","alias":"it-security-audit","description":" A <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">computer security audit</span> is a manual or systematic measurable technical assessment of a system or application. Manual assessments include interviewing staff, performing security vulnerability scans, reviewing application and operating system access controls, and analyzing physical access to the systems. Automated assessments, or CAAT's, include system generated audit reports or using software to monitor and report changes to files and settings on a system. Systems can include personal computers, servers, mainframes, network routers, switches.\r\nAt its root, an <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">IT security audit</span> includes two different assessments. The manual assessment occurs when an internal or external IT security audit companies interview employees, reviews access controls, analyzes physical access to hardware, and performs vulnerability scans. \r\nAudit, performed by IT security audit services or IT security audit software, analyzes individual technical infrastructure components at a detailed level, ensuring that each is functioning in a manner that reinforces appropriate information security. The stakes are made higher with a number of regulatory compliance requirements mandating that IT audits be included in organizational due diligence efforts. These reviews should occur, at a minimum, annually. Some organizations, however, prefer to do them more frequently.\r\nOrganizations should also review system-generated reports. Automated assessments not only incorporate that data, but also respond to software monitoring reports and changes to server and file settings.\r\nSecurity audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing are the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">three main types of security diagnostics. </span>Each of the three takes a different approach and may be best suited for a particular purpose. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Security audits</span> measure an information system's performance against a list of criteria. \r\nA <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">vulnerability assessment,</span> on the other hand, involves a comprehensive study of an entire information system, seeking potential security weaknesses. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Penetration testing</span> is a covert operation, in which a security expert tries a number of attacks to ascertain whether or not a system could withstand the same types of attacks from a malicious hacker. In penetration testing, the feigned attack can include anything a real attacker might try, such as social engineering. Each of the approaches has inherent strengths, and using two or more of them in conjunction may be the most effective approach of all.\r\n\r\n\r\n","materialsDescription":"<h1 class=\"align-center\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is a security audit?</span></h1>\r\nA Security Audit is a process or event where the IT security policy or standards are used as a basis to determine the overall state of existing protection and to verify whether existing protection is being performed properly. It aims to determine whether the current environment is securely protected in accordance with the defined IT security policy.<br />Before performing a security assessment or audit, the organization should define the scope of the security audit, and the budget and duration allowed for the assessment/audit.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How often should a security audit be performed?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit only provides a snapshot of the vulnerabilities in a system at a particular point in time. As technology and the business environment changes, periodic and ongoing reviews will inevitably be required. Depending on the criticality of the business, a security audit might be conducted yearly, or every two years.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who should perform a security audit?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit is a complex task requiring skilled and experienced personnel; it must be planned carefully. To perform the audit an independent and trusted third party is recommended. This third party can be another group of in-house staff or an external audit team, dependent on the skills of the internal staff and the criticality/sensitivity of the information being audited.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Security_Audit.png"},{"id":725,"title":"IT Audit","alias":"it-audit","description":"An information technology audit, or information systems audit, is an examination of the management controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure. The evaluation of obtained evidence determines if the information systems are safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively to achieve the organization's goals or objectives. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of attestation engagement.\r\nIT audits are also known as automated data processing audits (ADP audits) and computer audits. They were formerly called electronic data processing audits (EDP audits).\r\nAn IT audit is different from a financial statement audit. While a financial audit's purpose is to evaluate whether the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, an entity's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity to standard accounting practices, the purposes of an IT audit is to evaluate the system's internal control design and effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to, efficiency and security protocols, development processes, and IT governance or oversight. Installing controls are necessary but not sufficient to provide adequate security. People responsible for security must consider if the controls are installed as intended, if they are effective, or if any breach in security has occurred and if so, what actions can be done to prevent future breaches. These inquiries must be answered by independent and unbiased observers. These observers are performing the task of information systems auditing. In an Information Systems (IS) environment, an audit is an examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and processing.\r\nThe primary functions of an IT audit are to evaluate the systems that are in place to guard an organization's information. Specifically, information technology audits are used to evaluate the organization's ability to protect its information assets and to properly dispense information to authorized parties. The IT audit aims to evaluate the following:\r\nWill the organization's computer systems be available for the business at all times when required? (known as availability) Will the information in the systems be disclosed only to authorized users? (known as security and confidentiality) Will the information provided by the system always be accurate, reliable, and timely? (measures the integrity) In this way, the audit hopes to assess the risk to the company's valuable asset (its information) and establish methods of minimizing those risks. ","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Is an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIn the typical software audit, your system administrators will be asked to show that software is not illegally loaded onto machines it shouldn’t be on, that the number of licenses matches up with the number of users or, if you purchased a bulk license, that you don’t exceed the bounds of that license. One thing you definitely don’t want to happen is for an auditor to find that an employee has brought a home version of a software package and installed it on his or her work computer.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Do Auditors Want?</span>\r\nIn short, software auditors want to know that companies are following the rules with regard to software licenses. How much slack they’ll give you if they find a minor violation depends on several factors. If you can show your company makes a good-faith effort to stay on top of all software license requirements, it could act in your favor.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Should We Do to Prepare for an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIf you have a strong IT asset management program in place, preparation for an audit is far less stressful. When you can easily create reports showing the number of copies installed, the number of licenses, license expiration dates, and hardware where the software is installed, you can create those reports in advance and look for potential problems. If you notice discrepancies, you can take steps to correct them before the auditors arrive.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How Can We Do a Self-Audit Beforehand?</span>\r\nPerforming periodic self-audits is not just busywork, but could potentially save your company a lot of money and embarrassment. The three main steps in a self-audit are: reading the vendor’s contract, gathering purchase information, and getting an accurate count of how many licenses are deployed:\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read the Contract</span> – Understand license types and models, including maintenance requirements. Learn if there are limitations on where the software can or cannot be used. For example, are you allowed to use it on laptops that travel outside the US?</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gather Purchase Information</span> – Know where to get your hands on purchase data. If you purchased from a reseller, make sure that the reseller passed on your purchase information to the vendor.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Get an Accurate License Deployment Count</span> – If your company has a solid IT asset management program, this shouldn’t be a challenge. Otherwise, you’ll need to manually locate receipts and serial numbers and match them up to the machines where the software is deployed.</li></ul>\r\nThe self-audit is much easier to do when you don’t have an actual audit staring you in the face.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Audit.png"},{"id":717,"title":"Consulting","alias":"consulting","description":" Even large international companies often face difficulties in their work. This may be due to both external factors and internal problems. Most often, problems arise because of price fluctuations in the market, the appearance or departure of a competitor, but firms also have difficulties with the relations themselves between employees within the enterprise. Because of this, there is no opportunity and strength within the company to fight for their survival, therefore an excellent solution, in this case, would be to use consulting services.\r\nConsulting is a type of service, which essentially means consulting. One company or person provides services in solving certain problems to another company.\r\nThe issues that can be solved with the help of consulting are very diverse. Sometimes it can be a whole complex of tasks, and sometimes it is provided only in a narrow area. For example, accounting consulting is the involvement of a specialized company or employee to solve accounting problems. That is why, when they talk about the concept of consulting, there is no clear definition.\r\nConsulting services are the solution of organizational or managerial tasks within a firm with the help of external specialists. Professional consultants in a particular area are invited to work at a company. Experts evaluate the condition, see the cause of the problems and create a system for solving these errors.\r\nThe company turns to consulting, not only in the case when experiencing difficulties in development. Often the manager decides on the expansion, so an urgent need to increase the number of specialists. But even if hiring them to work, then it will be necessary to spend more months on training, control over the execution of tasks, and only after that set challenging tasks for them. And in a developing company there is not so much time.<br />Consulting firms are specialized companies that provide consulting services. There can work a staff of staff who simultaneously collaborate with different organizations.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the types of consulting services?</span>\r\nThere are basic types of consulting services:\r\n<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-Consulting/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">IT consulting</span></link> is one of the newest and most sought-after types of consulting in Ukraine. This advice and assistance in the field of information technology. In fact, IT-consulting solves all the issues related to the Internet and information business processes.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marketing consulting.</span> Not all companies can afford to open a marketing department or hire a professional employee who will solve these issues. And today it is necessary to engage in advertising, because this is the only way to stay on the market and be a leader. In many cases, marketing consulting services are provided along with IT consulting.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Legal consulting</span> is related to the solution of current tasks that are related to the state law. This will allow to properly evaluate the activities of the company and make the most profitable decisions. Legal advice is especially important during the expansion of the enterprise when it is necessary to open new branches or enter into agreements with intermediaries and suppliers.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial consulting</span> - services that are associated with the effective management of funds, the distribution of the budget within the company, as well as proper external investments.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Personnel consulting</span> assumes the establishment of internal relations between employees, the selection of new professionals who will meet the requirements of the company.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who is engaged in consulting services?</span>\r\nThe task of consultants consulting firms include:\r\n<ul><li>Search for problems within the company.</li><li>Analysis of the enterprise.</li><li>Development of strategies and programs to solve the problems found.</li><li>Advice on any issues: management, accounting, logistics, finance, etc.</li></ul>\r\nConsultants have all the necessary knowledge to help small, medium or large businesses solve problems and quickly adapt to a constantly changing market or regularly growing competition.\r\nIn particular, consultants of consulting companies have the following knowledge:\r\n<ul><li>computer science (computer skills and various software);</li><li>marketing and advertising;</li><li>finance and accounting;</li><li>sales and management;</li><li>logistics and investment.</li></ul>\r\nThey must also understand personnel issues, environmental issues, as well as computer technology, basic software and more.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">When it is advisable to resort to consulting services:</span>\r\n<ol><li>If there are disagreements between partners in the business regarding the further development of the company, production, marketing, investments, etc.</li><li>When a business is in a critical situation, for example, on the verge of bankruptcy or bankruptcy, and the manager or entrepreneur is not able to solve the problems and save the company.</li><li>With the expansion of the business and its scaling. When work is planned on other regions of the country or even entering the international market.</li><li>When you need to find fresh ideas for the rapid promotion of a new service, product or product.</li><li>When the need arises to conduct an audit of a business to understand how effective it is and what are the future prospects in the current state of affairs.</li><li>When you plan to sell a business and you need to check all the important points.</li><li>In the absence of new ideas for the promotion of business, products, services or goods. Or to develop a new product, instead of an outdated or lost consumer demand.</li></ol>","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_Consulting.png"},{"id":718,"title":"IT Consulting","alias":"it-consulting","description":" In management, information technology consulting (also called IT consulting, computer consultancy, business and technology services, computing consultancy, technology consulting, and IT advisory) as a field of activity focuses on advising organizations on how best to use information technology (IT) in achieving their business objectives.\r\nThe IT consulting industry can be viewed as a Four-tier system:\r\n<ul><li>Professional services firms which maintain large professional workforces and command high bill rates.</li><li>Staffing firms, which place technologists with businesses on a temporary basis, typically in response to employee absences, temporary skill shortages and technical projects.</li><li>Independent consultants, who are self-employed or who function as employees of staffing firms (for US tax purposes, employed on Form W-2), or as independent contractors in their own right (for US tax purposes, on &quot;1099&quot;).</li><li>Information Technology security consultants</li></ul>\r\nThere are different reasons why consultants are called in:\r\n<ul><li>To gain external, objective advice and recommendations</li><li>To gain access to the consultants' specialized expertise</li><li>Temporary help during a one-time project where the hiring of a permanent employee(s) is not required or necessary</li><li>To outsource all or part of the IT services from a specific company.</li></ul>\r\nThere is a relatively unclear line between management consulting and IT consulting. There are sometimes overlaps between the two fields, but IT consultants often have degrees in computer science, electronics, technology, or management information systems while management consultants often have degrees in accounting, economics, Industrial Engineering, finance, or a generalized MBA (Masters in Business Administration).\r\nAccording to the Institute for Partner Education &amp; Development, IT consultants' revenues come predominantly from design and planning based consulting with a mixture of IT and business consulting. This is different from a systems integrator in that you do not normally take title to product. Their value comes from their ability to integrate and support technologies as well as determining product and brands. ","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Who is an information technology (IT) consultant?</span>\r\nAn information technology consultant is a third-party service provider who is qualified to advise clients on the best use of IT to meet specific business requirements. IT consultants may work with a professional IT consultancy firm or as independent contractors. They may conduct a business needs assessment and develop an information systems solution that meets the organization's objectives.\r\nSome information technology consultants emphasize technical issues while others help organizations use IT to manage business processes. Still others specialize in a specific IT area such as information security.\r\nIT consultants need a deep knowledge of both business and information technology. A bachelor's degree in management information systems, computer science, or information science is the typical path into a technical consultancy career. IT certifications supplement this foundation with specialized technical training. Information technology degree and certification programs are available online to accommodate working IT professionals.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">What are the prerequisites and major obstacles?</span>\r\nOnce a business owner defined the needs to take a business to the next level, a decision maker will define a scope, cost and a time-frame of the project. The role of the IT consultancy company is to support and nurture the company from the very beginning of the project until the end, and deliver the project not only in the scope, time and cost but also with complete customer satisfaction.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; \"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Project scoping and planning</span></span>\r\nThe usual problem is that a business owner doesn't know the detail of what the project is going to deliver until it starts the process. In many cases, the incremental effort in some projects can lead to significant financial loss.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; \"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Business process and system design</span></span>\r\nThe scope of a project is linked intimately to the proposed business processes and systems that the project is going to deliver. Regardless of whether the project is to launch a new product range or discontinue unprofitable parts of the business, the change will have some impact on business processes and systems. The documentation of your business processes and system requirements are as fundamental to project scoping as an architects plans would be to the costing and scoping of the construction of a building.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: italic; \"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Project management support</span></span>\r\nThe most successful business projects are always those that are driven by an employee who has the authority, vision and influence to drive the required changes in a business. It is highly unlikely that a business owner (decision maker or similar) will realize the changes unless one has one of these people in the employment. However, the project leadership role typically requires significant experience and skills which are not usually found within a company focused on day-to-day operations. Due to this requirement within more significant business change projects/programs, outside expertise is often sought from firms which can bring this specific skill set to the company.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the skills of IT-consulting?</span>\r\nAn IT consultant needs to possess the following skills:\r\n<ul><li>Advisory skills</li><li>Technical skills</li><li>Business skills</li><li>Communication skills</li><li>Management skills</li><li>Advisory language skills</li><li>Business and management language skills</li><li>Technical language skills</li></ul>","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Consulting.png"},{"id":721,"title":"Business Consulting","alias":"business-consulting","description":"Business consulting is a type of services related to the preparation of recommendations for the achievement of set goals in economic activity.\r\nBusiness consulting may include not only consulting support but also the implementation of management decisions. A business consultant is included in the search for the best, optimal ways of getting out of a situation that requires outsourcing support.\r\nExperts in the field of business consulting are attracted if companies need external evaluation for further development or to develop a short-term and long-term strategy.\r\nThe result of the work is consulting on business consulting, as well as the development and forecasting of the company-employer.\r\nAs part of business consulting, the following services are usually provided:\r\n<ul><li>drawing up business plans;</li><li>вrawing up marketing plans;</li><li>marketing consulting.</li></ul>","materialsDescription":" Business consultants almost never use the word &quot;problem&quot;; instead, they talk about opportunities to enhance value. Ask any consultant what they do, and they'll likely say &quot;I'm in the solutions business.&quot; Despite criticism that's sometimes leveled at business consultants, they truly can add value to your middle market company, but you need to know when and why to use them. There is a huge range of business issues that consultants can provide solutions for, and different types of consultants bring different ideas to the table.\r\nConsultants come in many forms. Most businesses are familiar with the &quot;big four&quot; audit firms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst &amp; Young, and KPMG. These big-name firms are most likely out of a midmarket business's price range, which will lead midsized companies to work with smaller boutique firms and even individual experts for hire.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Types of Consultants:</span>\r\nBusiness consultants can generally add value in five major areas of your middle market business:\r\n<ol><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Management and strategy.</span> Qualified consultants should have a deep understanding of your particular market and bring the best practices from your industry (or even other industries) to your company. If you're looking to expand your markets geographically, extend your product portfolio, reorganize your middle market company to promote efficiency and cost-effectiveness, buy out a smaller competitor, or increase your overall capabilities, then hiring an experienced management/strategy consultant can make perfect sense. Firms such as McKinsey &amp; Company are famous for helping clients develop and execute better strategies.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Operations.</span> Want to improve the quality and efficiency of your production processes? An operations consultant such as Accenture can help you create and implement a new way of doing just that. Some consultants specialize in business process re-engineering, meaning that they come in and map out your existing processes, analyze opportunities for reducing the number of steps in that process while maintaining quality, and re-engineer your processes in a way that reduces steps and costs. Other consultants are experts in quality control systems and can help you make changes that will reduce defects.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">IT.</span> This is a fast-growing area for consulting, as the demands of new technology are impacting middle market companies every day. Whether you need to develop a new system or integrate your old systems so that they work together, an IT consultant can help. IT consultants such as IBM will enhance your capabilities and also make your IT more flexible in meeting the dynamic needs of internal and external customers.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">HR.</span> Need to improve the overall satisfaction of your employees, recruit top talent, and retain your top performers? HR consultants such as Hay Group specialize in developing compensation strategies that align with your overall business goals, training, and developing your people in areas such as business communication and leadership. They can help you improve performance-related feedback and evaluation to your team, making your employees work smarter.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Marketing.</span> Whether you need a new logo for your company, a new market position for one of your brands, or a new social media strategy to interact with your customers, marketing consultants can help. Consultants such as The Boston Consulting Group can offer you a creative spark when your own people have run out of ideas, letting you see what other companies have done to attract more customers.</li></ol>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reasons for Hiring a Consultant</span>\r\nNow that you know the major types of consultants, why would you need to hire one? Here are five common reasons:\r\n<ol><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Rent a brain.</span> You don't have the human resources you need because some internal person has quit or your head count has been slashed, so hiring a consultant for a project or on a temporary basis can fill the gap until a full-time internal person is found. You won't have to make a consultant a full-time employee, so breaking off the relationship is relatively easy and cost-effective.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Manage change (and take the heat).</span> Consultants are experts at fostering change in organizations, so if your midsized company is rife with internal squabbling concerning imminent changes, bringing in a consultant can break the logjam. Consultants know that they're often brought in for political cover and will shoulder blame for unpopular changes such as reducing head count and other cost-cutting measures.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Teach and implement best practices.</span> Consultants are often the leading experts in the fields they work in. They not only have academic and theoretical expertise, but they've also worked directly with leading companies to implement change. If you want best practices in areas such as IT and management, then consultants are the best source available. Why try to invent a best practice when consultants have already implemented some with multiple clients?</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Infuse creativity.</span> Consultants have a fresh perspective on your business, so having an outsider come in and offer ideas can be tremendously helpful. Sometimes your in-house people are too close to your company and don't have the perspective to examine the bigger picture within your market, but consultants can share valuable insights that boost your internal creative thinking.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Deliver training.</span> You can hire a consultant to share knowledge about almost anything. Consultants are born trainers, so they're a natural choice to do a training course or day-long presentation for your company in almost any area. A good consultant blends theory and practice, and this can deliver high value to your midmarket company.</li></ol>\r\nConsultants can obviously be expensive, and you need to carefully weigh the costs and benefits. 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Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. 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This may be due to both external factors and internal problems. Most often, problems arise because of price fluctuations in the market, the appearance or departure of a competitor, but firms also have difficulties with the relations themselves between employees within the enterprise. Because of this, there is no opportunity and strength within the company to fight for their survival, therefore an excellent solution, in this case, would be to use consulting services.\r\nConsulting is a type of service, which essentially means consulting. One company or person provides services in solving certain problems to another company.\r\nThe issues that can be solved with the help of consulting are very diverse. Sometimes it can be a whole complex of tasks, and sometimes it is provided only in a narrow area. For example, accounting consulting is the involvement of a specialized company or employee to solve accounting problems. That is why, when they talk about the concept of consulting, there is no clear definition.\r\nConsulting services are the solution of organizational or managerial tasks within a firm with the help of external specialists. Professional consultants in a particular area are invited to work at a company. Experts evaluate the condition, see the cause of the problems and create a system for solving these errors.\r\nThe company turns to consulting, not only in the case when experiencing difficulties in development. Often the manager decides on the expansion, so an urgent need to increase the number of specialists. But even if hiring them to work, then it will be necessary to spend more months on training, control over the execution of tasks, and only after that set challenging tasks for them. And in a developing company there is not so much time.<br />Consulting firms are specialized companies that provide consulting services. 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The manual assessment occurs when an internal or external IT security audit companies interview employees, reviews access controls, analyzes physical access to hardware, and performs vulnerability scans. \r\nAudit, performed by IT security audit services or IT security audit software, analyzes individual technical infrastructure components at a detailed level, ensuring that each is functioning in a manner that reinforces appropriate information security. The stakes are made higher with a number of regulatory compliance requirements mandating that IT audits be included in organizational due diligence efforts. These reviews should occur, at a minimum, annually. Some organizations, however, prefer to do them more frequently.\r\nOrganizations should also review system-generated reports. Automated assessments not only incorporate that data, but also respond to software monitoring reports and changes to server and file settings.\r\nSecurity audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing are the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">three main types of security diagnostics. </span>Each of the three takes a different approach and may be best suited for a particular purpose. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Security audits</span> measure an information system's performance against a list of criteria. \r\nA <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">vulnerability assessment,</span> on the other hand, involves a comprehensive study of an entire information system, seeking potential security weaknesses. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Penetration testing</span> is a covert operation, in which a security expert tries a number of attacks to ascertain whether or not a system could withstand the same types of attacks from a malicious hacker. 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It aims to determine whether the current environment is securely protected in accordance with the defined IT security policy.<br />Before performing a security assessment or audit, the organization should define the scope of the security audit, and the budget and duration allowed for the assessment/audit.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How often should a security audit be performed?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit only provides a snapshot of the vulnerabilities in a system at a particular point in time. As technology and the business environment changes, periodic and ongoing reviews will inevitably be required. Depending on the criticality of the business, a security audit might be conducted yearly, or every two years.\r\n<h1 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who should perform a security audit?</span></h1>\r\nA security audit is a complex task requiring skilled and experienced personnel; it must be planned carefully. 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Это команда инженеров по программному обеспечению, электротехнике и промышленным процессам, которые специализируются в области промышленной автоматизации и работают в команде с 2005 года. Ими было реализовано более 80 проектов со средней нагрузкой в 500 человеко-часов каждый. Опыт в области промышленной автоматизации и программного обеспечения сотрудников ATE начинается с 1995 года и включает более чем 100 завершённых проектов.</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Corbel, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\">Наши международные сертификаты по промышленной безопасности ИТ/ОТ&nbsp;&mdash; это ISA CFS и CRS (ISA/IEC&nbsp;62443). Нашими международными сертификатами по общей информационной безопасности являются ISC<span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; box-sizing: border-box;\">2</span>&nbsp;CISSP и SSCP, ISACA CISA, Offensive Security OSCP, EC-Council CEH, ISO&nbsp;27001 Audit/Implementation и другие</p>","shortDescription":"БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ИТ И ОТ","type":null,"isRoiCalculatorAvaliable":false,"isConfiguratorAvaliable":false,"bonus":100,"usingCount":18,"sellingCount":1,"discontinued":0,"rebateForPoc":0,"rebate":0,"seo":{"title":"БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ИТ И ОТ","keywords":"","description":"<p>БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ИТ И ОТ</p>\r\n<h5 style=\"font-size: 1.1em; margin: 1.67em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; color: #2f5597; padding-top: 0px;\">Безопасность промышленных информационных технологий (ИТ) и операционных техн","og:title":"БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ИТ И ОТ","og:description":"<p>БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ИТ И ОТ</p>\r\n<h5 style=\"font-size: 1.1em; margin: 1.67em 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; color: #2f5597; padding-top: 0px;\">Безопасность промышленных информационных технологий (ИТ) и операционных техн","og:image":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/content/imgpsh_fullsize_03.png"},"eventUrl":"","translationId":7335,"dealDetails":null,"roi":null,"price":null,"bonusForReference":null,"templateData":[],"testingArea":"","categories":[{"id":538,"title":"Services","alias":"services","description":" Service - any activity or work that one party can offer the other, characterized by the absence of the proposed material tangibility of such activities and not expressed in possession of something.\r\nA service from the point of view of marketing is a sale object in the form of an artist’s action, bringing benefits to the consumer or a useful result. In the process of providing services, a new, previously non-existent material product is not created, but the quality of an existing, created product changes. These are goods provided not in the form of commodities or exchange, but in the form of activities. The very provision of services creates the desired result for the consumer.\r\nServices have four main characteristics that significantly affect the development of marketing programs:\r\n<ul><li>intangibility - it is impossible to demonstrate, see, try, transport, store, pack or study. All this is possible only in relation to the final result (it was - it became);</li><li>inseparability - a service can be provided only when an order arrives or a client appears, i.e. services are provided and consumed simultaneously;</li><li>variability (non-standardization) - customers are direct participants in the service process and affect its final result;</li><li>impossibility of storage - unlike tangible goods, they cannot be made for future use.</li></ul>","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the types of services?</span>\r\nThe provision (provision) of services may include, for example, the following:\r\n<ul><li>activities carried out on material products supplied by the consumer (for example, repair of a faulty car);</li><li>activities carried out on intangible products supplied by the consumer (for example, preparing a statement of income required to determine the amount of tax);</li><li>the provision of intangible products (for example, information in the sense of knowledge transfer);</li><li>creating favorable conditions for consumers (for example, in hotels and restaurants).</li></ul>\r\nThe services provided to the population, by appointment, are divided into material and socio-cultural:\r\n<ul><li>Material service - a service to satisfy the material and domestic needs of a consumer of services. It provides restoration (change, preservation) of consumer properties of products or the manufacture of new products by orders of citizens, as well as the movement of goods and people, the creation of conditions for consumption. In particular, material services may include household services related to the repair and manufacture of products, housing and communal services, catering services, transportation services, etc.</li><li>Socio-cultural service (intangible service) - a service to satisfy spiritual, intellectual needs and the maintenance of normal consumer life. Provides maintenance and restoration of health, spiritual and physical development of the individual, increasing professional skills. Social and cultural services cannot include medical care and compulsory educational process.</li></ul>\r\nServices can be: private or commercial, voluntary or forced, paid or free, instant or long-term, mutual and anonymous, public, etc.\r\nThe generalizing category, which includes all types of commercial and non-commercial services and is part of the economy, is the service sector.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Service Examples</span>\r\nRealtor services - services of a realtor, real estate agent, aimed at satisfying the needs of the client when performing operations to manage real estate, as well as creating additional benefits for the client when carrying out operations with real estate (additional income or an additional increase in the value of real estate both in the short and long term), the receipt of which would be impossible without the participation of a realtor (real estate agent) and the use of special professional tools and skills. At the same time, the effectiveness of the realtor (real estate agent) is estimated by the value of the benefit received by the client, and his remuneration is only part of it.\r\nLegal services - the services of a lawyer and attorney in many cases are vital, therefore, the choice of performers for their provision should be with particular seriousness and responsibility. The main areas of lawyer and advocate services:\r\n<ul><li>Comprehensive legal services for organizations of various forms of ownership;</li><li>Arbitration - representing the interests of organizations in arbitration courts;</li><li>Representation of interests of companies in courts of various instances;</li><li>Professional legal support of transactions and contracts of organizations;</li><li>Services to legal entities related to bankruptcy of enterprises;</li><li>Services of professional lawyers in returning and collecting debts;</li><li>Representation of interests of organizations in the event of tax disputes;</li><li>Processes related to registration of the inheritance;</li><li>Services of a professional lawyer in the event of a traffic accident (Legal assistance in road accidents);</li><li>Services of a lawyer and advocate in the event of housing disputes;</li><li>Family lawyer services;</li><li>Providing the services of a lawyer and criminal lawyer;</li><li>Ensuring consumer protection.</li></ul>\r\nAccounting services are necessary for both newly opened companies and existing structures that need to establish an accounting service or monitor the work of a full-time accountant. Accounting services are also relevant in the case of business expansion, as new employees appear in the company, salaries are revised, and associated costs arise. Professional accounting services are the foundation of successful business activities, ensuring the prosperity of the business due to the precise control of all financial resources of the company.\r\nPsychological assistance services.\r\nIT-services (IT-services, IT-services; including IT-consulting) - services related to assisting in the development of computer literacy of users, training them in new software products. The list of services also includes services for installation, updating and maintenance of software products and computer equipment.\r\nInformation Services.\r\nand etc.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_Services.png"},{"id":32,"title":"IT outsourcing","alias":"it-outsourcing","description":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">IT outsourcing</span> is the use of external service providers to effectively deliver IT-enabled business process, application service and infrastructure solutions for business outcomes.\r\nOutsourcing, which also includes utility services, software as a service and cloud-enabled outsourcing, helps clients to develop the right sourcing strategies and vision, select the right IT service providers, structure the best possible contracts, and govern deals for sustainable win-win relationships with external providers.\r\nOutsourcing can enable enterprises to reduce costs, accelerate time to market, and take advantage of external expertise, assets and/or intellectual property. IT outsourcing can be implemented both ways: outsides or within the country. \r\nIT outsourcing vendors can provide either a fully managed service, meaning they take full responsibility of all IT maintenance and support, or they can provide additional support for an internal IT team when needed, which is known as co-sourced IT support. A company using IT outsourcing can choose to use one provider for all their IT functions or split the work among multiple providers. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Specific IT services typically outsourced include:</span>\r\n<ul><li>Application development</li><li>Web hosting</li><li>Application support</li><li>Database development</li><li>Telecommunications</li><li>Networking</li><li>Disaster recovery</li><li>Security</li></ul>\r\n<p class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Reasons for Outsourcing</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Reduce Cost.</span> More often than not, outsourcing means saving money. This is often due to lower labor costs, cheaper infrastructure, or an advantageous tax system in the outsourcing location.<br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Access Skills That Are Unavailable Locally.</span> Resources that are scarce at home can sometimes be found in abundance elsewhere, meaning you can easily reach them through outsourcing.<br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Better Use Internal Resources</span>. By delegating some of your business processes to a third party, you’ll give your in-house employees the opportunity to focus on more meaningful tasks.<br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Accelerate Business Processes.</span> When you stop wasting time on mundane, time-consuming processes, you’ll be able to move forward with your core offering a lot faster.<br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Share Risks.</span> When you delegate a part of non-focus functionality by outsourcing it to a third-party vendor, you give away the responsibility and related risks.","materialsDescription":"<h3 class=\"align-center\">What are the Types of IT Outsourcing?</h3>\r\n<p class=\"align-left\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Project-Based Model.</span> The client hires a team to implement the part of work that is already planned and defined. The project manager from the outsourced team carries full responsibility for the quality and performance of the project.</p>\r\n<p class=\"align-left\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Dedicated Team Model.</span> The client hires a team that will create a project for them, and they will work only on that project. Unlike the project-based model, a dedicated team is more engaged in your project. In this model, an outsourced team becomes your technical and product advisor. So it can offer ideas and suggest alternative solutions.</p>\r\n<p class=\"align-left\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Outstaff Model.</span> It's a type of outsourcing in IT when you don't need a full-fledged development team and hire separate specialists. Sometimes the project requires finding a couple of additional professionals, and you're free to hire outstaff workers to cover that scope of work.</p>\r\n<h3 class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">What are IT Outsourcing examples?</span></h3>\r\nThe individual or company that becomes your outsourcing partner can be located anywhere in the world — one block away from your office or on another continent.\r\nA Bay Area-based startup partnering with an app development team in Utah and a call center in the Philippines, or a UK-based digital marketing agency hiring a Magento developer from Ukraine are both examples of outsourcing.\r\n<h3 class=\"align-center\">Why You Should Use IT Outsourcing</h3>\r\nNow that you know what IT outsourcing is, its models, and types, it's time to clarify why you need to outsource and whether you really need it. Let's go over a few situations that suggest when to opt for IT outsourcing.\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You are a domain expert with idea</span></li></ul>\r\nIf you're an industry expert with the idea that solves a real problem, IT outsourcing is your choice. In this case, your main goal is to enter the market and test the solution fast. An outsourced team will help you validate the idea, build an MVP to check the hypothesis, and implement changes in your product according to market needs. It saves you money, time and lets you reach the goal.\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You have an early-stage startup</span></li></ul>\r\nIt's a common case that young startups spend money faster than they get a solid team and a ready-to-market product. The Failory found that financial problems are the 3rd reason why startup fails. So it makes more sense to reduce costs by hiring an outsourced team of professionals while your business lives on investor's money. You may employ a full-cycle product development studio covering all the blind spots and bringing your product to life.\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">You need a technical support</span></li></ul>\r\nEven if you already have a ready solution, but it demands some technical improvements – frameworks for backend components, new language, integrations with enterprise software, UX&amp;UI design – it makes more sense to find an experienced partner. There are many functions that IT outsourcing can cover, and again it saves you the time you'd otherwise spend on looking for qualified staff.<br /><br /><br />","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_outsourcing.png"},{"id":591,"title":"Software Development","alias":"software-development","description":" Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development is a process of writing and maintaining the source code, but in a broader sense, it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software, sometimes in a planned and structured process. Therefore, software development may include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities that result in software products.\r\nSoftware can be developed for a variety of purposes, the three most common being to meet specific needs of a specific client/business (the case with custom software), to meet a perceived need of some set of potential users (the case with commercial and open-source software), or for personal use (e.g. a scientist may write software to automate a mundane task). Embedded software development, that is, the development of embedded software, such as used for controlling consumer products, requires the development process to be integrated with the development of the controlled physical product. System software underlies applications and the programming process itself and is often developed separately.\r\nThe need for better quality control of the software development process has given rise to the discipline of software engineering, which aims to apply the systematic approach exemplified in the engineering paradigm to the process of software development.\r\nThere are many approaches to software project management, known as software development life cycle models, methodologies, processes, or models. The waterfall model is a traditional version, contrasted with the more recent innovation of agile software development.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">What is software development?</span>\r\nSoftware itself is the set of instructions or programs that tell a computer what to do. It is independent of hardware and makes computers programmable. There are three basic types:\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">System software</span> to provide core functions such as operating systems, disk management, utilities, hardware management, and other operational necessities.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Programming software</span> to give programmers tools such as text editors, compilers, linkers, debuggers and other tools to create code.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Application software</span> (applications or apps) to help users perform tasks. Office productivity suites, data management software, media players and security programs are examples. Applications also refer to web and mobile applications like those used to shop on Amazon.com, socialize with Facebook or post pictures to Instagram.\r\nA possible fourth type is <span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">embedded software.</span> Embedded systems software is used to control machines and devices not typically considered computers — telecommunications networks, cars, industrial robots and more. These devices, and their software, can be connected as part of the Internet of Things (IoT).\r\nSoftware development is primarily conducted by programmers, software engineers, and software developers. These roles interact and overlap, and the dynamics between them vary greatly across development departments and communities.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Programmers, or coders,</span> write source code to program computers for specific tasks like merging databases, processing online orders, routing communications, conducting searches or displaying text and graphics. Programmers typically interpret instructions from software developers and engineers and use programming languages like C++ or Java to carry them out.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Software engineers</span> apply engineering principles to build software and systems to solve problems. They use modeling language and other tools to devise solutions that can often be applied to problems in a general way, as opposed to merely solving for a specific instance or client. Software engineering solutions adhere to the scientific method and must work in the real world, as with bridges or elevators.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Software developers</span> have a less formal role than engineers and can be closely involved with specific project areas — including writing code. At the same time, they drive the overall software development lifecycle — including working across functional teams to transform requirements into features, managing development teams and processes, and conducting software testing and maintenance.\r\nThe work of software development isn’t confined to coders or development teams. Professionals such as scientists, device fabricators, and hardware makers also create software code even though they are not primarily software developers. Nor is it confined to traditional information technology industries such as software or semiconductor businesses. In fact, according to the Brookings Institute, those businesses “account for less than half of the companies performing software development.”\r\nAn important distinction is custom software development as opposed to commercial software development. Custom software development is the process of designing, creating, deploying and maintaining software for a specific set of users, functions or organizations. In contrast, commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) is designed for a broad set of requirements, allowing it to be packaged and commercially marketed and distributed.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Steps in the software development process</span>\r\nDeveloping software typically involves the following steps:\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Selecting a methodology</span> to establish a framework in which the steps of software development are applied. It describes an overall work process or roadmap for the project. Methodologies can include Agile development, DevOps, Rapid Application Development (RAD), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Waterfall and others.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gathering requirements</span> to understand and document what is required by users and other stakeholders.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Choosing or building architecture</span> as the underlying structure within which the software will operate.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Developing a design</span> around solutions to the problems presented by requirements, often involving process models and storyboards.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Constructing code</span> in the appropriate programming language. Involves peer and team review to eliminate problems early and produce quality software faster.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Testing</span> with pre-planned scenarios as part of software design and coding — and conducting performance testing to simulate load testing on the application.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Managing configuration and defects</span> to understand all the software artifacts (requirements, design, code, test) and build distinct versions of the software. Establish quality assurance priorities and release criteria to address and track defects.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Deploying</span> the software for use and responding to and resolving user problems.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Migrating data</span> to the new or updated software from existing applications or data sources if necessary.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Managing and measuring the project</span> to maintain quality and delivery over the application lifecycle, and to evaluate the development process with models such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).</li></ul>\r\nThe steps of the software development process fit into application lifecycle management.\r\n<ul><li>Requirements analysis and specification</li><li>Design and development</li><li>Testing</li><li>Deployment</li><li>Maintenance and support</li></ul>\r\nSoftware development process steps can be grouped into the phases of the lifecycle, but the importance of the lifecycle is that it recycles to enable continuous improvement. For example, user issues that surface in the maintenance and support phase can become requirements at the beginning of the next cycle.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Why is software development important?</span>\r\nSoftware development is important because it helps businesses differentiate themselves and be more competitive. It can improve customer experiences, bring more innovative, feature-rich products to market faster, and make operations more efficient, safe and productive.\r\nSoftware development is also important because it is pervasive.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_Software_Development.png"},{"id":683,"title":"IT Administration","alias":"it-administration","description":" IT is a huge field that requires a wide set of knowledge in several areas. Modern businesses need a way of supporting their IT equipment and users because unfortunately, it’s inevitable issues will arise that will need focus and attention so they can continue to work. IT administration is about handling the desktops, servers, and networking equipment for enterprise or small companies.\r\nSystem administration is the field of work in which someone manages one or more systems, be they software, hardware, servers or workstations. Its goal is ensuring the systems are running efficiently and effectively.\r\nSystem administration is typically done by information technology experts for or within an organization. Their job is to ensure that all related computer systems and services keep working.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is a desktop?</span>\r\nA desktop computer is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk or table due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply, motherboard (a printed circuit board with a microprocessor as the central processing unit (CPU), memory, bus, and other electronic components), disk storage (usually one or more hard disk drives, solid-state drives, optical disc drives, and in early models a floppy disk drive); a keyboard and mouse for input; and a computer monitor, speakers, and, often, a printer for output. The case may be oriented horizontally or vertically and placed either underneath, beside, or on top of a desk.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is a server?</span>\r\nA server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called &quot;clients&quot;. This architecture is called the client-server model, and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called &quot;services&quot;, such as sharing data or resources among multiple clients or performing the computation for a client. A single server can serve multiple clients, and a single client can use multiple servers. A client process may run on the same device or may connect over a network to a server on a different device. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.\r\nClient-server systems are today most frequently implemented by (and often identified with) the request-response model: a client sends a request to the server, which performs some action and sends a response back to the client, typically with a result or acknowledgment. Designating a computer as &quot;server-class hardware&quot; implies that it is specialized for running servers on it. This often implies that it is more powerful and reliable than standard personal computers, but alternatively, large computing clusters may be composed of many relatively simple, replaceable server components.\r\nWhat is networking equipment?\r\n\r\n","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Administration.png"},{"id":701,"title":"IT Project Administration","alias":"it-project-administration","description":" Unlike project and program management services, IT project administration does not involve the involvement of managers, but IT project administrators.\r\nIn this case, the administrator assumes the administrative support functions of the IT project, which can be either narrow or as wide as possible.\r\nThe purpose of the service is to increase the efficiency of the organization's tasks by centralizing routine functions and minimizing the administrative labor of the head and participants of the IT project.\r\nThe IT project administrator contributes essential administrative support to coordinate a technical team, typically under the direction of a project manager or leader. Duties of a project administrator include all aspects of facilitating a project: scheduling meeting times and locations, taking meeting minutes, developing presentations, and arranging training for project staff. In addition, the project administrator participates in budget administration, providing analysis, keeping records, and forecasting financial performance. IT project administrators may work closely with other corporate departments, such as HR and legal.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What does Project Administrator mean?</span>\r\nA project administrator is a professional who organizes the necessary team members and specializes in facilitating, reporting and analyzing projects under the supervision of a project manager. This position requires great responsibility and proper time management because the job entails constant monitoring and control of all project variables. The project administrator's role is not only to ensure that the project is finished on time and on budget, but also may involve acquiring more contracts.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the main duties of the IT Project Administrator?</span>\r\n<ul><li>Planning the financial budget necessary for the project</li><li>Coordinating with team members frequently for updates regarding the work in progress</li><li>Monitoring the progress of the IT-project and acknowledging team suggestions</li><li>Supervising the team members and ensuring that guidelines are met</li><li>Initiating the project or contract and working until the project is completed</li><li>Discussing updates with senior officials and the client</li></ul>","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Project_Administration.png"},{"id":722,"title":"Audit","alias":"audit","description":" Audit is a check of the activity of an organization or system for compliance with laws, regulations and rules. The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. Audits must be honest and incorruptible, so auditors often pay for high salaries so that they do not have the desire of the brothers.\r\nWebsite audit is a comprehensive analysis: checking HTML-code for errors and presence, as well as a number of checked files, such as robots.txt, correct coding, error handling of the 404th, page loading speed and so on.\r\nThe scope of the subject of the audit also happens to be general, banking, insurance, IT (<link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT audit</link> and <link https://roi4cio.com/en/categories/category/it-security-audit/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">IT security audit</link>) and other activities.","materialsDescription":"<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Types of audit:</span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Financial and investment audit</span>\r\nFinancial - this is an audit in the classical sense, that is, verification of financial statements and expression of opinion about its reliability. Closely adjacent to it is an investment audit - a conclusion on the targeted and efficient use of investment resources and an audit of professional participants in investment activities (exchanges, investment and construction companies). Also close to the financial audit is adjacent to the audit and inventory activities. Depending on whether an audit of a company's reporting is conducted by an independent auditor or its own employees, it is customary to distinguish between an independent (audit in the classic sense) and an internal audit.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Industrial Audit</span>\r\nIndustrial audit is a more complex phenomenon, as it includes elements of financial (in terms of forming the cost of products, confirmation of the reasonableness of tariffs for services — for example, housing and communal services) and a purely technical audit.\r\nThe technical audit is understood by independent experts to check the production organization system, the quality control and management system, the technical and technological solutions used, as well as to check the technical condition of machinery, equipment, machinery, buildings and structures, engineering communications, systems and networks, as well as technical and design checks. documentation expressing opinions on the validity of the applied technical / technological solutions, methods of production management and compliance of technical a cic state of engineering complex systems and equipment to the requirements of regulatory acts.\r\nThis also includes a set of measures for auditing the information technology environment of an enterprise — IT audit of systems and services, as well as an understanding of the level of software and hardware support — the level of automation.\r\nInspection activities are closely related to industrial audit - that is, technical supervision activities (production, construction, assembly, commissioning) of technically complex products that have so-called hidden work (work that cannot be seen and accepted for quality in the future - for example, foundation work ) and the activities of independent acceptance of technically complex products (ships, turbines, technological complexes) and confirmation of the achievement of design parameters, as well as acceptance of shipments of goods from evidence supporting their properties, quantity and quality.\r\nThe types of industrial audits are environmental audits (confirmation of loads on the environment), energy audits, audit of operating costs and confirmation of tariffs (used mainly to justify prices for products of natural and other monopolies) and other types of special audits (for example, ESD- audit).\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Staff audit</span>\r\nPersonnel audit is the definition, assessment of the personal potential of employees and the compliance of employees with the corporate culture and values ​​of the company.\r\nIn the course of this audit, the level of compliance of an employee with his position is established, personal qualities are assessed, and a comprehensive description of employees is given.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PR audit</span>\r\nTasks - to check the implementation of project tasks, to analyze the effectiveness of the expenditure of funds allocated for the project. During the audit, such techniques as counting the number of messages, assessments, types of media, evaluation of materials for several components, statistical processing of motives are used. Along with the methods listed above, sociological surveys and point studies of representatives of the project’s target audience can be applied.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Environmental audit</span>\r\nEnvironmental audit of an enterprise is a comprehensive and independent assessment of compliance with requirements, including the requirements of existing international standards, regulations and regulations in the field of environmental safety, environmental management and environmental protection, as well as the preparation of relevant recommendations and their documentation for improving the activities of enterprises and organizations in the environmental field.<br /> ","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/100_Black_LineIcons_Business_original_vect59.png"},{"id":729,"title":"IT Project Deployment Services","alias":"it-project-deployment-services","description":" Companies invest in projects for the implementation of IT systems that are consistent with the organization's values, with the goal of realizing a business vision, stable support for operational activities, and gaining competitive advantages. In this regard, technological projects are becoming increasingly large-scale, affecting more departments of the organization, and pose a risk to the company if the operation of information systems is disrupted.\r\nThe introduction of new IT requires the project team to carry out at least two principal stages:\r\n<ul><li>pre-project analysis of the enterprise, when, with the help of specialists in the proposed IP and specialists of the enterprise, compliance and discrepancies between the system and its future use is revealed. As a result of the survey, ways to eliminate inconsistencies are determined based on the initial assessment of the required resources and time. The survey is conducted using questions and answers, to some extent formalized, and special software tools that allow you to describe the processes of the system and the enterprise and compare them visually. No changes take place at the enterprise unless individual employees are distracted from their direct duties, which is both a virtue and a disadvantage of this approach;</li><li>trial implementation carried out on the most characteristic site of work. Based on this test work, a general assessment of future implementation is determined and a fundamental decision is made on the use of IP.</li></ul>\r\nThere is a lot of confusion and substitution of the concept of “project team” with the idea of ​​it as a “group”, “pack”, “family”, etc. There are several understandings that there is a modern “project team/group” and “integrated project team”, however, the fundamental characteristic of the team is that it does not exist outside the project. A team with all its human strengths and weaknesses is a necessary and inseparable element of any project. It is a developing element of the technology of the project and affects the project itself.\r\nThe project itself is not “done” - it is made by people, and where people are affected by the influence of biology, instincts, gender parameters, “conscious” and “unconscious”, etc. If people are in the organizational “system” (family, flock, group, team, etc.), systemic effects arise that should be foreseen in the formation of a set of people due to the competent selection, placement and development of the team in the right direction. This is not just an ordinary organizational question, but a question of the depth of understanding of the essence of the project, its management and the skill of the leader.","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is an IT project?</span>\r\nAn IT project is a project that includes work related to information technology.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What is information technology?</span>\r\nInformation technology is a technology aimed at the creation, development and support of information systems.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What are the main ideas underlying the project team model of an IT project?</span>\r\n<ul><li>interdependent and interrelated roles in a small group;</li><li>determination of the role, special mission and area of ​​responsibility for each member of the project team;</li><li>distributed project management and responsibility;</li><li>each is focused on the success of the project and is set to work throughout the project cycle;</li><li>communication between project team members is a key success factor;</li><li>users and training staff are included in the project team;</li><li>parallel engineering - parallel work of all team members on a project.</li></ul>","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Project_Deployment_Services.png"}],"characteristics":[],"concurentProducts":[],"jobRoles":[],"organizationalFeatures":[],"complementaryCategories":[],"solutions":[],"materials":[],"useCases":[],"best_practices":[],"values":[],"implementations":[]},{"id":4791,"logoURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Network-Audits.png","logo":true,"scheme":false,"title":"Аудит бизнес-процессов by Si BiS","vendorVerified":1,"rating":"0.00","implementationsCount":1,"suppliersCount":0,"supplierPartnersCount":0,"alias":"audit-biznes-processov-by-si-bis","companyTitle":"SI BIS","companyTypes":["supplier","vendor"],"companyId":246,"companyAlias":"si-bis","description":" Аудит бизнес-процессов – это комплексный анализ основных показателей продуктивности деятельности компании, а также принципов, по которым она работает. 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The evaluation of obtained evidence determines if the information systems are safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity, and operating effectively to achieve the organization's goals or objectives. These reviews may be performed in conjunction with a financial statement audit, internal audit, or other form of attestation engagement.\r\nIT audits are also known as automated data processing audits (ADP audits) and computer audits. They were formerly called electronic data processing audits (EDP audits).\r\nAn IT audit is different from a financial statement audit. While a financial audit's purpose is to evaluate whether the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, an entity's financial position, results of operations, and cash flows in conformity to standard accounting practices, the purposes of an IT audit is to evaluate the system's internal control design and effectiveness. This includes, but is not limited to, efficiency and security protocols, development processes, and IT governance or oversight. Installing controls are necessary but not sufficient to provide adequate security. People responsible for security must consider if the controls are installed as intended, if they are effective, or if any breach in security has occurred and if so, what actions can be done to prevent future breaches. These inquiries must be answered by independent and unbiased observers. These observers are performing the task of information systems auditing. In an Information Systems (IS) environment, an audit is an examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and processing.\r\nThe primary functions of an IT audit are to evaluate the systems that are in place to guard an organization's information. 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","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Is an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIn the typical software audit, your system administrators will be asked to show that software is not illegally loaded onto machines it shouldn’t be on, that the number of licenses matches up with the number of users or, if you purchased a bulk license, that you don’t exceed the bounds of that license. One thing you definitely don’t want to happen is for an auditor to find that an employee has brought a home version of a software package and installed it on his or her work computer.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Do Auditors Want?</span>\r\nIn short, software auditors want to know that companies are following the rules with regard to software licenses. How much slack they’ll give you if they find a minor violation depends on several factors. If you can show your company makes a good-faith effort to stay on top of all software license requirements, it could act in your favor.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Should We Do to Prepare for an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIf you have a strong IT asset management program in place, preparation for an audit is far less stressful. When you can easily create reports showing the number of copies installed, the number of licenses, license expiration dates, and hardware where the software is installed, you can create those reports in advance and look for potential problems. If you notice discrepancies, you can take steps to correct them before the auditors arrive.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How Can We Do a Self-Audit Beforehand?</span>\r\nPerforming periodic self-audits is not just busywork, but could potentially save your company a lot of money and embarrassment. The three main steps in a self-audit are: reading the vendor’s contract, gathering purchase information, and getting an accurate count of how many licenses are deployed:\r\n<ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Read the Contract</span> – Understand license types and models, including maintenance requirements. Learn if there are limitations on where the software can or cannot be used. For example, are you allowed to use it on laptops that travel outside the US?</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gather Purchase Information</span> – Know where to get your hands on purchase data. If you purchased from a reseller, make sure that the reseller passed on your purchase information to the vendor.</li><li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Get an Accurate License Deployment Count</span> – If your company has a solid IT asset management program, this shouldn’t be a challenge. Otherwise, you’ll need to manually locate receipts and serial numbers and match them up to the machines where the software is deployed.</li></ul>\r\nThe self-audit is much easier to do when you don’t have an actual audit staring you in the face.","iconURL":"https://old.roi4cio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/icon_IT_Audit.png"},{"id":722,"title":"Audit","alias":"audit","description":" Audit is a check of the activity of an organization or system for compliance with laws, regulations and rules. The word audit means “listening” in Latin.\r\nAuditing is a very important matter in financial and banking systems. 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Although it outlines minimum requirements to address daily threats, agency-specific initiatives are often needed to handle risks and vulnerabilities.<br /><br />At Securicon, we believe that you shouldn’t play catch-up with your security processes. We provide a wide range of services that enable Federal information security managers to implement comprehensive, proactive security programs.<br /><br /><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Based on your agency’s unique needs, our services fall into seven major categories:</span><br /><br />1 . Risk Management Framework (RMF)<br />Security Planning and Documentation – Steps 1-3b<br />Security Assessment – Steps 4-4b<br />Continuous Monitoring – Step 6<br />2. Cyber Operations<br />3. Cybersecurity Operations<br />4. Systems Engineering Support<br />5. Security Program Development/Support<br />6. Technical Consulting Services<br />7. 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","materialsDescription":" <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Is an IT Audit?</span>\r\nIn the typical software audit, your system administrators will be asked to show that software is not illegally loaded onto machines it shouldn’t be on, that the number of licenses matches up with the number of users or, if you purchased a bulk license, that you don’t exceed the bounds of that license. One thing you definitely don’t want to happen is for an auditor to find that an employee has brought a home version of a software package and installed it on his or her work computer.\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What Do Auditors Want?</span>\r\nIn short, software auditors want to know that companies are following the rules with regard to software licenses. How much slack they’ll give you if they find a minor violation depends on several factors. 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IT outsourcing can be implemented both ways: outsides or within the country. \r\nIT outsourcing vendors can provide either a fully managed service, meaning they take full responsibility of all IT maintenance and support, or they can provide additional support for an internal IT team when needed, which is known as co-sourced IT support. A company using IT outsourcing can choose to use one provider for all their IT functions or split the work among multiple providers. \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Specific IT services typically outsourced include:</span>\r\n<ul><li>Application development</li><li>Web hosting</li><li>Application support</li><li>Database development</li><li>Telecommunications</li><li>Networking</li><li>Disaster recovery</li><li>Security</li></ul>\r\n<p class=\"align-center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">Reasons for Outsourcing</span></p>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; \">To Reduce Cost.</span> More often than not, outsourcing means saving money. 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