The Connection Between Data Security and IT Audit

The world’s economy is powered by data. Yet organizations still experience significant difficulties when it comes to protecting and securing information. As ransomware evolves and cloud services attacks increase, enterprises face heightened pressure to secure data.

To assist stakeholders in these efforts, IT audit and assurance professionals can adopt an automated, more thorough and less error-prone database audit process. Effective audit can expose flaws in existing strategies and systems, allowing the issue to be addressed at the root and potentially protecting an organization’s security, finances and reputation. By opting to automate database audit, organizations will be better equipped to handle the scope of the task. Less human error and fewer shortcuts can help enterprises achieve more accurate audit results.

To further explore database assessment automation and the latest research on global data security trends, ISACA^® and Trustwave will host the “Data Security Trends Impacting IT Auditing” webinar on 3 December at 11AM CST (UTC -6 hours). Mark Trinidad, senior product manager at Trustwave, will provide insights on data security informed by more than 15 years of security operations and IT audit experience. ISACA members who attend will earn 1 continuing professional education (CPE) hour for the event.

To learn more and register for this webinar, visit the Data Security Trends Impacting IT Auditing page of the ISACA website.