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Audit
Modernising Your Internal Audit Infrastructure
A checklist for optimising efficiency and impact Running an internal audit department today isn’t easy. Regulations and business requirements are...
By the Numbers: How Diligent Audit Saved One Team Nearly $2 Million
Your audit team is under increasing pressure to accomplish more with less. So how do you stay ahead of evolving responsibilities — without...
Diligent Named a Leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance Software in Q4 2023 Report by Independent Research Firm
Diligent received top possible scores in 14 criteria including audit management, regulatory change management and user experience New York, December...
Forrester Wave: Diligent sets the standard for modern GRC
Nearly every organisation is under pressure to enhance their GRC reporting capabilities. But the challenge of evaluating vendors and choosing a...
Audit Technology Security Considerations: A Checklist
Whether you are a small, medium or large organisation, a breach due to poor audit technology security can be catastrophic. The right audit software...
Elevating Audit With Strategic Technology: Navigating Audit’s Transformation From Reactive to Proactive
As the third line of defense, offer unique insights on intangibles like ESG, DEI, human capital, and cyber resiliency. Utilizing advanced audit...
Hear How ABSA Is Creating the Audit Function Of the Future
Internal audit teams across the globe are looking to reinvent themselves to better serve current and future risks. But how do they effectively plan...
Effective Cybersecurity Strategy For Board Engagement: Your First Step
When it comes to an effective cybersecurity strategy for board engagement, identifying risk is only half the battle. The next crucial step for a...
Continuous Monitoring: Using “Always On” Auditing For Efficiency
Assurance is just the beginning of what board members and executives seek from their audit teams today. In an evolving landscape, auditors need to...
Using Robotics To Do More With Less: A CAE Guide
If it feels like your audit team, led by the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) using robotics, is "drinking from a firehose," you're not alone. Demands on...
“Hiring” a Robot: 4 Tips for Data Analytics Automation in Internal Audit
For internal audit teams, data analytics automation for internal audit is a touted superpower speeding up calculations, improving accuracy, and...
6 Considerations For Buying An Audit Analytic Tool
As more and more organisations rely on data to make strategic decisions, audit analytic tools have become an essential tool for internal...
Revitalising Access Control Programs
Access control, a critical component of IT security compliance programs, ensures that organisations protect confidential information, like...
IT Risk Management: KRI Basics
As an IT professional, you bear the responsibility of safeguarding your organisation before potential IT risks halt business operations, cause...
13 Unexpected Costs Of Cutting Your Executive Management Software
Organisations across sectors and regions feel the narrowing grip of economic uncertainties: The vast majority (75%) of global CEOs expect reducing...
CISO Board Presentation Tips
Effectively communicate your cybersecurity posture to the board with our tips for CISOs on presentations and strategy. Your CISO board presentations...
CISOs In The Boardroom
The role of CISO has been redefined, from one that reacts to data breaches and threats to a position of strategic importance with complex...
Navigating AI Cybersecurity Risks and Rewards For CISOs and CIOs
As the rapid surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology reshapes the digital landscape, the responsibilities of Chief Information Security...
How a Robust IT Compliance Program Can Help You Streamline, Save and Grow
Running an adequate IT security and privacy program requires teams to keep track of many details. Where and when does the software need to be updated and patched? What data is the organisation collecting from its customers, and how is this information being protected? Which employees have completed cybersecurity training, and when must curricula be updated? The list goes on.
Thanks to increasingly complex threat environments and company IT footprints, this checklist is getting more extensive and challenging to keep up with daily. Moreover, investors and regulators want proof of a company’s cybersecurity and privacy credentials, often in great detail.
Internal Audit Software: 7 Methods For Successful Integration
In the early 2000s, internal audit teams primarily conducted cyclical audits, often disconnected from organizational objectives. Today, with a focus...
A Buyer’s Guide To Audit Management Software
For today’s internal audit teams, the audits themselves are only one part of a growing scope of responsibilities. Executives and departments across...
5 Steps For Introducing Audit Software Into Your Organisation
In addition to performing traditional cyclical audits, today’s internal audit teams are advisors to every aspect of their organisation’s operations....
How To Use Data Analytics To Improve Your Internal Audit Function
More and more auditors are using data analytics in audit to improve their internal audit programs and processes as well as deliver a more...
What Do Boards Want From Audit? 6 Ways Auditors Can Guide Business Strategy
Considering the “third line of defence,” it’s the job of the audit team to remain independent from the rest of the organisation while they...
Sprinting Ahead With Agile Auditing
Audit teams are now continuously striving to do everything quicker and more efficiently, usually without enough resources. In fact, 27% of CAEs cite...
Internal Audit Controls Testing: Can Automation Help Accomplish Your Goals?
Your internal controls provide the confidence you need that your processes will ensure compliance with regulations, legislation and best practices....
Continuous Audit: Can It Supercharge Your Controls and Risk Assessment?
Continuous audit is emerging as an effective strategy for managing and minimising organisational risk. A few years ago, the Journal of...
Audit Planning: Why Is It Important and What Are the Best Practices for Success In South Africa?
Audit planning stands as the crucial inaugural step in the audit process, forming the bedrock of a successful audit. Effective planning ensures a...
Audit Efficiency: 3 Advantages in Delegating Control Assessments
Amidst escalating responsibilities in governance, risk management, and compliance, internal auditors aim to enhance their value by delivering...
A Chief Audit Executive’s Checklist For Getting Boardroom-Ready
As financial and compliance activities increasingly demand oversight from audit committees, a comprehensive CAE checklist is crucial. Numerous other...
8 Features Of the Best Audit Management Software
In recent years, the audit community embraced electronic working papers for collaboration, but this led to the challenge of dark data. To address...
5 Challenges To Data Compliance Strategies
Explore data compliance strategies as a valuable resource, not a potential landmine Data is at the core of all organisations. But acquiring and...
Future-Proofing Internal Audit
The risk profiles of organisations are becoming more complex and difficult to manage. To remain relevant, internal audit has to respond to these...
Using Tech-Aware Audit Function To Ensure Compliance and Accuracy
How do companies build a more agile, tech-aware audit function? What new audit technologies are necessary? How will these technologies change audit...
5 Best Practices For Auditors: Enhancing Collaboration and Strategic Value
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), internal auditors play a crucial role, ensuring effective risk management, governance, and internal control...
7 Strategies For Effective Government Internal Audit Management
Internal audit is critical for monitoring government departments’ governance, risk management, and compliance processes. It helps keep all public entities on the right path and is key to delivering the “checks and balances” and monitoring the organisation to avoid emerging risks.
IT Audit Readiness: 9 Essential Steps
Amidst the escalating complexities of the current IT risk and regulatory environment, IT professionals grapple with the increasing challenge of...
What the Audit Committee Expects Of the Chief Audit Executive: 5 Ways To Keep Pace
Discover how CAEs can navigate the evolving corporate landscape, address ESG concerns, and become trusted advisers to audit committees.
The Benefits Of RPA For Auditing and Financial Control: A New Era Of Efficiency and Accuracy
The buzz surrounding robotics and robotic process automation (RPA) is hard to ignore in finance and accounting. EY has highlighted that adopting RPA...
7 Steps to Prepare Your Board For Cybersecurity Risks and Regulations
The benefits of AI are evident as growing cybersecurity risks and regulations put pressure on boards, CIOs, and CISOs to monitor the landscape and...
6 Challenges Of Bringing Analytics Into Audit and How To Overcome Them
As auditors take on an increasingly expanded role as strategic advisors, powerful tools like data analytics can help them stay ahead of evolving...
The Right Time Is Now To Transition To Agile Auditing
We often hear the word “agile” from aligning remote and dispersed teams to managing cyber security risk. Internal audit work, under increased...
The Diligent Audit Analytic Capability Model
How to get from basic data analysis to continuous monitoring To provide executives with visibility and assurance, audit teams must leverage audit...
Foster Strategic Internal Audit Leadership: 4 Executive Approaches
Strategic internal audit leadership and change is the new status quo. With rapid shifts on all fronts, organisations need accurate data to make the...
4 Ways Risk Management & Compliance Can Get a Seat At the Table
Regarding risk management and compliance, most organisations operate on a 3 Lines of Defense (3LOD) model, in which operational management,...
How CAEs Can Transform Into Innovative Audit Leaders
Chief Audit Executives need to create a dynamic, technology-forward audit function to help attract and retain talent, provide a top-down culture of...
Maximising Efficiency With Modernised Audits
Auditing practices are constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of businesses and their customers. Modernising modern audit processes is...
Cyberculture Leadership Starts With the CISO
Cyberculture leadership starts with you, the CISO. You regularly communicate cyber issues and opportunities to your board and executive leadership....