Top risks auditors should cover in their 2022 audit plans

Ransomware and the long-term effects of COVID-19 on markets and organizations are key items to cover in 2022 audit plans, according to a Gartner report. The report also identified evolving societal expectations for enterprises, such as environmental, s… Continue reading Top risks auditors should cover in their 2022 audit plans

Top risks auditors should cover in their 2022 audit plans

Ransomware and the long-term effects of COVID-19 on markets and organizations are key items to cover in 2022 audit plans, according to a Gartner report. The report also identified evolving societal expectations for enterprises, such as environmental, s… Continue reading Top risks auditors should cover in their 2022 audit plans

Four key tenets of zero trust security

As cybercrime threatens businesses of all sizes, industries and locations, organizations have realized that the status quo is no longer tenable and that implementing zero trust is necessary. Zero trust is a security model that can be summed up as “Neve… Continue reading Four key tenets of zero trust security

The long-term impacts of the pandemic on internal audit teams

AuditBoard announced the results of a survey of corporate chief audit executives (CAEs) that reveals the long-term impacts of COVID on their operations and the profession at large. The survey polled more than 175 CAEs across a range of industries, unco… Continue reading The long-term impacts of the pandemic on internal audit teams

Audit effectiveness and talent retention at risk as hybrid auditing becomes the new norm

Audit functions that fail to adapt well to hybrid auditing risk a loss of effectiveness and influence at a time when real-time assurance has never been more vital to the wider organization, according to Gartner. With hybrid audit engagements here to st… Continue reading Audit effectiveness and talent retention at risk as hybrid auditing becomes the new norm

Audit process or project changes leading to control gaps, creating risks

A survey of 200 audit business partners revealed that 56% of respondents said they were facing more changes in the last two years, and a large majority agreed these changes were both bigger (81%) and faster (74%), according to Gartner. The pace of chan… Continue reading Audit process or project changes leading to control gaps, creating risks

Most companies still rely on manual tools and tech for internal audit processes

Despite volatility of the risk landscape in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, most organizations still rely on manual tools and technologies for internal audit processes, a MetricStream survey reveals. “Auditors don’t have time to sift thr… Continue reading Most companies still rely on manual tools and tech for internal audit processes

Andrew Appel on New Hampshire’s Election Audit

Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire.

Based on preliminary reports published by the team of experts that New Hampshire engaged to examine an election discrepancy, it appears that a buildup of dust in the read heads of optical-scan voting machines (possibly over several years of use) can cause paper-fold lines in absentee ballots to be interpreted as votes… New Hampshire (and other states) may need to maintain the accuracy of their optical-scan voting machines by paying attention to three issues:…

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