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IT Essentials Guides and Resources for Internal Auditors

Technology underpins nearly every organizational process, risk, and control. To provide meaningful assurance and advice, internal auditors need a working knowledge of how IT is governed, built, and used. The IT Essentials for Internal Auditors suite reimagines a former GTAG as a three-part series that helps internal auditors build that knowledge one focused area at a time.

The three guides explore IT Governance, Infrastructure and Networks, and Applications and Emerging Technologies, explaining key concepts, common risks, and what internal auditors should consider in each area. Each guide is paired with a companion tool that helps put the concepts into practice during engagement planning and fieldwork.

Together, these resources help internal auditors at every career stage strengthen their IT fluency, ask sharper questions about technology risk, and deliver assurance that reflects how organizations use technology today.

Governance

Understand how IT supports the business and how technology services and projects are governed, delivered, and monitored.

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Infrastructure and Networks

Explains the technology foundation that processes, stores, and connects IT information across the organization.

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Applications and Emerging Technology

Explores how applications are developed and changed, plus developments such as data analytics, robotic process automation, and more.

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This release supersedes GTAG “IT Essentials for Internal Auditors” published in 2020.