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- IT Auditor plays a vital role nowadays due to massive use of
technology in accounting.
- IT Auditors looks after technical infrastructure,network
infrastucture,technical loopholes in accounting softwares,privacy
and data concerns.
- Skillset is an only asset of an IT Auditor.Some skills required
by an IT Auditor is mentioned below:
- IT Security and knowledge of network infrastructure
- Data Analysis and Visualization tools
- Security testing
- Internal Auditing standard -SOX etc.
- Analytical thinking skills
- Privacy troubleshooting
- Data loop-hole detecting
- Auditor uses several softwares to record their documentation
usually customised electronic audit softwares.Meanwhile IT Auditors
uses software to audit IT systems of an entity.AuditBoard is the
most widely used cloud software used by IT Auditors.Other softwares
may include Interactive Data extracting and Analysis(IDEA)
etc.