Session Description: 

During this course you will learn the details and approach of a typical Cybersecurity audit including understanding key risks and an organizations overall cyber security posture. In the second half of this course you will learn how to use Data Analytics to increase internal audit effectiveness, identify opportunities to analyze various data sources leading to powerful insights and resulting in improved decision making. These objectives will be demonstrated by reviewing a typical Cybersecurity audit workprogram along with various Data Analytic techniques and scenarios which will include real world client examples and applications with demos using ACL Analytics and other tools such as Tableau.

After this workshop you will be able to:

Auditing Cybersecurity

· Audit an organization’s cyber security posture and key risks

· Define audit evidence requests needed to evaluate an institution’s cyber security controls

· Examine ways to assess an organization’s cyber security maturity

· Recognize new and emerging cyber-attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities

· Discuss cyber security frameworks and assessment tools currently available

Data Analytics in Audit

· Create automated processes to eliminate routine manual analysis and increase internal audit effectiveness

· Learn how to use and translate data into a “story” about key characteristics or past trends

· Combine different data sources to increase opportunities for driving management insight

· How to capture data and what data to capture to achieve objective and the analyzation of data

· How to translate the data into a summary report meaningful to senior management