What Did U Haerd IT Controls in my live and their force on operations
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-16 13:51:31 | Word Count: 510
IT Controls in my live and their force on operations
My being changed in Summer 2005. At that time i decided to turn out to be an IT Auditor. It seemd very extraordinary for some of my friends, as my campus stusdies were all aboput encoding comeptences. A good number of my institution of higer education folks became prorammers - seeral are working in Web programming, esveral create unique billing systems. And i turned into an IT Auditor.
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That is why, the name IT Controls is following me all over the place. Subsequently, lets look at what does it mean - control, and particulary - IT Controlps.
The majority of our today's cmpanies are opearting various computer systems for their business and financials. hTese systems produce differnet supplies, provide numeorus servioces, calcultae salaries, control our intrest raes, send various} billls to us, etc. As we can see, there are lots of compuetr sstems which control our daily activities, help us live in today's complex wortld. Howevewr who and how manage all these systems? How we can be ensured, that our earnings were calculated acceptably, that diverse goods were created as we estimated - how to keep undeer coontrol that all these systems are woirking as we rewquire them to work? This is a good question, isn't it?
My answer to this issue is - we are. We, IT Audiors, control, or smoetimes assist to control, all IT systems in the world. Sure, all buisnesses and their IT empoyees must controltheir own IT systems by implementing diverse IT Controls. That's where we come across this term first time. IT Controls - it is some procedures, which have to be taken by some cuustodian IT employees in order to contoland make sure the normal operations of IT systesm. But the world is continuously a loop, isn't it? That is why somebody should controlthese custdian IT people to make sure that their IT Controls are operated as anticipatedby company board. That is where IT Auditor's workbegins. To read more about IT Audit vidsit it auddit controls.
So, what we come up with at this time. Particular guys at a specific company must build up a amount of IT Controls, and some guys, IT Auditors similar to me, must come and test theri IT Controls and verify that these controls operateeffectively. Generally how it works - the IT custodian workers is responsible to run IT Contropls on daiuly absis, and IT Auditor comes once per yearto exammine the IT Cntrols and confirm that all of them were operated efficienlty for the period of the last year. Such tests are repeatted each year.
By performing tests of IT Conttrols on a reurring basis, we make sure that these speciffic IT systems work as they be supposred to function.
There are hundreds and thousands and millions of different companies worldwide, there are still more IT employees in every on these businesses, and thre are tousands of IT Auditors in the World to eaxmine all the IT Controls in all systems. Sure, not all companies have the similar procedure, there are lots ofbusinesses who have not adopteed any of IT Controls yet, but they will do this. Or else, such companies will finish their business as for a wihle their IT systems will discontinue functioningcorrectly.
That is why i deem, that my work as IT Audittor is exteremely crucial. As any other work in the World. By ding our labor we constitute our livs superior. My function is to test IT Controls and make sure that IT systems functioon as they shuold function. Mnkind is creating more and more obsession IT systems these days, that is why all IT Auditors worldwide will have more and more work each year.
Lets manage all thhese systems and not let them to keep under control us!
