Top 10 Skills Related to IT Auditing

1. Performance of general controls Internal and external shop operations

2. Preparation of application assessments Featured on mainframe, UNIX, Windows NT, and other operating systems

3. Transfer control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) Internet-related data security practice

4. Asynchronous transfer method (ATM) Telecommunications

5. Electronic funds transfer (EFT) Telecommunications

6. Database management systems (DBMS) Knowledge of Oracle, Access, and other DBMS

7. Business continuity planning (disaster recovery planning) The planning and recommended implementation of a corporate disaster recovery plan

8. Systems under change The use of system development methodology, security and control design, and postimplementation reviews

9. Audit integration services Working with . nancial auditors to make assertions on a company’s . nancial statements

10. Information security services Internet penetration studies using Internet Security Systems (ISS), Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), and a large-scale Constrained Optimization Problem Set (COPS), and other Internet security tools of trade