what's an IT audit?

[gamepad]

good pay?

 

[AdamK47]

Are you talking about an audit being performed or a person that is doing the auditing?

 

[spidey07]

very good pay for being a complete idiot.

I'm serious.

 

[gamepad]

the person doing the auditing.

when i read threads talking about good jobs, i always see IT Auditing mentioned, but I don't know what it is.

edit: can someone give me a link that describes IT auditing? it's sort of diffucult for me to find results searching anything resembling "IT audit" in google without knowing what it is.
thanks.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: gamepad
the person doing the auditing.

when i read threads talking about good jobs, i always see IT Auditing mentioned, but I don't know what it is.

Then you would make a fine IT auditor.

Basically an IT auditor reads from a checklist of things a company should be doing and then dings them for not doing it.

The great part about it is, you can be completely clueless about the computing industry and still rake it in.

 

[wyvrn]

It has been popularized by Sarbanes Oxley Act (google it). Basically, companies have to prove they have controls over the information that makes it to their financial statements, so that people who rely on financial statements can have a 'reasonable assurance' that the data is correct.

Also, each company will have internal IT Auditors that test programs, the network, interfaces, and general computing controls like access and backups for the benefit of management that IT is being run properly.

Spidey07 sounds like he has to work with auditors

Generally as an IT auditor you will be asked to have an IT background/education, but since auditors generally touch many systems in their audits, it is pretty much impossible for an auditor to be an expert on every system. People generally don't like working with auditors because it is arduous and they get 'dinged' for systems passing a checklist of tests that may or may not be the focus of the technology piece. In short, very frustrating. If you want to be an auditor, try browsing www.isaca.org and The institute of internal auditors .

 

[Jzero]

There's a whole lot of different facets to IT auditing.

 

[alien42]

you are going to jail for all the illegal downloading you have been doing at work