IT audit individual professionals and teams worldwide face challenges with cybersecurity, privacy, data management and governance, building effective partnerships with the IT organization, dealing with ongoing digital transformation and disruption, addressing resource and talent constraints, and shifts in critically needed skill sets.
As IT audit and internal audit functions continue to evolve, they face notable challenges with regard to recruiting new expertise and, in the case of many current staff, retraining in new skills. More than any other skills, IT audit functions are looking to hire professionals with expertise in advanced and enabling technologies. These findings come from the 2019 IT Audit Benchmarking Study, an annual global research initiative conducted by ISACA and Protiviti.
Strategies to address these challenges can be found in the Business and Digital Transformation’s Effects on IT Audit Groups: A Global Look at IT Audit Best Practices—Assessing the International Leaders in an Annual ISACA-Protiviti Survey, which also presents the data and features some analysis. The full 2019 IT Audit Benchmarking Report, with extensive comparative and expert analyses and report assets, will be released in October 2019, around the time of the EuroCACS conference.
To download the Business and Digital Transformation’s Effects on IT Audit Groups: A Global Look at IT Audit Best Practices—Assessing the International Leaders in an Annual ISACA-Protiviti Survey, visit the A Global Look at IT Best Practices page of the ISACA website.