My being changed in Summer 2005. At that time i decided to turn out to be an IT Auditor. It seemed very strange for some of my friends, as my college studies were all regarding encoding expertises. The majority of my institution of higher education friends became programmers - some are working in Web encoding, several develop unique billing systems. And i became an IT Auditor.

As such, the term IT Controls is following me in all places. Subsequently, lets look at what does it mean - control, and mostly - IT Controls.

The majority of our today’s companies are operating different computer systems for their business and financials. These systems produce various supplies, distribute different services, compute salaries, manage our interest rates, send numerous} bills to us, etc. As we can see, there are lots of computer systems which control our daily activities, help us be alive in today’s obsession world. Although who and how keep under control all these systems? How we can be ensured, that our payment were calculated properly, that numerous goods were created as we projected - how to keep under control that all these systems are functioning as we suppose them to work? This is a nice question, isn’t it?

My response to this problem is - we are. We, IT Auditors, keep under control, or sometimes facilitate to manage, all IT systems in the world. Of course, all companies and their IT workers have to controltheir private IT systems by implementing diverse IT Controls. That’s where we come across this phrase first time. IT Controls - it is various actions, which must be taken by some custodian IT workers in order to controland guarantee the usual operations of IT systems. But the earth is continuously a circle, isn’t it? That is why someone have to managethese custodian IT employees to guarantee that their IT Controls are operated as expectedby corporation management. That is where IT Auditor’s operatebegins. To read more about IT Audit visit it audit risk.

So, what we come up with at the moment. Several guys at a specific company have to create a amount of IT Controls, and some guys, IT Auditors like me, have to come and test their IT Controls and prove that these controls functioneffectively. Usually how it works - the IT custodian employees is responsible to run IT Controls on daily basis, and IT Auditor comes yearlyto test the IT Controls and verify that all of them were operated efficiently through the last year. Such tests are recurring each year.
By executing tests of IT Controls on a ordinary basis, we ensure that these distinct IT systems function as they be supposed to work.

There are hundreds and thousands and millions of various businesses globally, there are even more IT workers in all on these companies, and there are thousands of IT Auditors in the World to analyze all the IT Controls in all systems. Of course, not all businesses have the same procedure, there are manycompanies who have not implemented any of IT Controls yet, but they will do this. Otherwise, such companies will discontinue their operations as sometime their IT systems will finish runningaccurately.

That is why i think, that my work as IT Auditor is very important. As any other occupation in the World. By doing our work we constitute our lives enhanced. My function is to analyze IT Controls and guarantee that IT systems function as they be supposed to work. Mankind is creating more and more difficult IT systems nowadays, that is why all IT Auditors global will have more and more work each year.

Lets control all these systems and not let them to control us!

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