From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 1 Auditing Information Systems for IS Auditors

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IS audit results

IS audit results

From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 1 Auditing Information Systems for IS Auditors

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IS audit results

- [Instructor] All right, so now let's talk a little bit about IS audit results. So now that you've got all the evidence, what do you do with it? Well, it's time to take the results of those tests and the analysis that you've performed and all that output and generate some kind of findings. At the end of the day, you're going to interpret these results and come to some conclusions. These are the broader, larger conclusions. I mean results are just the output of the tests and the collection of evidence and some interpretation. But what does all that mean? What do these results tell us about the overall organization? And what can it lead us to infer? Does this, for example, mean that we're led to believe that we have a security awareness problem, for example? Those are the kind of things that you want to be able to generate as findings. Now, we compare those results to existing baselines or some kind of previous audit results so that we can hopefully identify some kind of trend. Look…

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