IT Audit and Control: Analysis, Findings, Strategies, and Recommendations

IT AUDIT AND CONTROL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of audit report..........................................................................................................3
Audit findings and irregularities found in report....................................................................5
Audit strategies and actions....................................................................................................6
Recommendation to overcome Irregularities.........................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Information Technology audit termed out as evaluation and examination of the organisation IT
policies, infrastructure and operations (Sennewald and Baillie, 2020). Thus, IT controls and aids
to protect corporate assets and aids to ensure data integrity and these all needs to be aligned with
overall goals of business. Hence, IT audit and security mainly considered the process that assist
to collect and evaluate evidence to determine that whether computer system safeguarding assets,
allows entities goals to accomplished effectively, helps to maintain data integrity and also
supports to uses resources efficiently ( Isinkaye, Soyemi and Arowosegbe, 2020).
The present report is based on to analyse the IT audit report of Western Australia Auditor
General Report. Furthermore, report will cover the irregularities found in report of Audit. Also,
discussion will be conducted on possible strategies that aids to cope up irregularities found in
report. Also, recommendation will be outlined in order to cope up the future source of actions.
MAIN BODY
Analysis of audit report
An audit report termed out to be opinion of auditor that relates with concerning the
examination of entity financial statement.
Audit focus and scope-:
The major focus is on the key business application at number of state government
entities. Hence, each application is crucial to undertake processes of entity. This affects
stakeholder together with the public if application and processes not managed properly. Thus, 4
applications are as RAMS, Pensioner Rebate scheme and exchange, Advanced Metering
infrastructure and New land register (Vedadi and Warkentin, 2020).
Audit findings in RAMS- Western Australian government bodies mainly uses the system that
called out as RAMS. In addition to this, RAMS is application that is termed out as the
government e-recruitment solution. It is system that managed by their that called as SaaS. This
contains personal identifiable, complex information such as address, qualification, work history
etc. As per the audit findings it has been found out that commission do not have guarantee that
information contained in RAMS is protected to safeguard its truthfulness, availability and
confidentiality ( Bezzaoucha and Voos, 2020). Thus, deficiencies in this system are as there is
outdated technical specification documentation, unverified software, tragedy retrieval not tested