Five Biggest Secrets to a Successful IT Audit

Focus on Getting and Staying CompliantCraig Tobey, VP of Sales, Aldon

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Challenges of IT Audit Compliance

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Aldon and Compliance Simplification

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Agenda

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Sarbanes-Oxley COBITHIPAAFDAPCIBasel & Basel IISEI/CMMI

ITIL

Common Criteria(National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Individual Internal/External Audit

Compliance and Best Practices

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Inventory managementProcess automationDeployment managementIncident/problem trackingCommunication trackingWorkflow management

Areas Auditors Review

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Increased complexity of software system’s on multiple platforms

(Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM Mainframe, IBM i, etc.)

Process documentation and activity tracking while under deadline pressures

Geographically distributed teams Increased business involvement

Requirement management, reviews, approvals, notifications, etc.

Agile development

Communication with Auditors Non-Technical Auditors Adversarial relationship between auditors and IT

staff Variety of audit standards

The Challenges

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End-to-End Change ManagementManaging Workflow from Incident Report to Solution Delivery

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Biggest Secret to a Successful IT Audit

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Biggest Secrets to a Successful IT Audit

Aldon’s Solutions

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Available Through Existing Tools

AldonRepository

RDi

Microsoft Eclipse

Rational

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Visible by Change Request!

Use Any Version Control System

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Comprehensive Reporting

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For the Auditors: Detailed Activity History

Auditors can easily seewho did what and when

(every field change, every email, every approval, etc. with date, time and user information)

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For the Auditors: Approval History

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Easy process setupSimple process maintenance ‘Set it and forget it’ process

automationRe-usable process templatesAutomated process exception

handlingSophisticated permissions/approval

managementComprehensive history loggingHistory reporting

Application Lifecycle Process Automation

The Solution

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65% are using Aldon to adhere to compliance regulations and pass audits

Compliance requirements have changed things for the better

Once in place, IT Compliance solutions can provide many other productivity benefits

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