Enterprise Cybersecurity in Digital Business

21Cybersecurity Auditing

DOI: 10.4324/9781003052616-26

Over seventy percent of the of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The remaining thirty percent is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Barnet Margolis, Global Head of Internal Audit at Cantor Fitzgerald

The basics

A cybersecurity or an IT audit is the examination and evaluation of an organization's information technology infrastructure, policies, and operations. IT auditors examine physical and digital security controls, business and financial controls that involve information technology systems.

Auditing myths

A myth is a belief that is inaccurate and widely held. Myths can tell us about assumptions that we and others make about each other. Sometime a myth has some element ...