Patrick J. Wasson

Building a PC in class helped us learned the basic functions of how a computer works, and how much work goes into building all the types of devices used today (laptops, all in one desktops, tower desktops, smart phones, etc.) Gaining even a basic understanding of the work IT and technical employees within an organization may be involved with, gives us aspiring IT Auditors the ability to help communicate with them. In the IT Audit role, these are the people we will work with to understand the systems under audit, and this activity of building a PC was a necessary step in learning the language these people speak subconsciously throughout their roles in an organization. We as IT Auditors can’t be trusted in recommendations we make, if we appear to not have a basic understanding of how technology works.

As a student who has no IT background, it is essential to know how to build a PC. In my opinion, building a PC lead me to understand the basic elements in a PC. When IT auditors talk to other people who have no IT background, they may not know the professional words. When IT auditors talk about professional words, they use general words to explain what the words are.

Built a PC can make us know what basic component a PC need and how PC works as a whole. It helps us to remember the material that the lecture covered and give us the experience to build a PC which can increase the awareness that to build a device and let it successfully work, we need to be careful and be cautious. Same thing with auditing. Also, when we have a basic understanding of PC, we can know how to communicate with those technology guys. So I think to build a PC from scratch was helpful.

I think IT auditors should master part of computer professional knowledge. IT audit requires auditors to possess certain computer knowledge, but it does not require every auditor to become a computer professional. The computer knowledge requirements for IT auditors should be clearly stipulated to avoid excessive unrealistic requirements for them. If IT auditing requires each auditor to master complex computer skills and accept a large number of database expertise, it will cause the waste of audit resources and damage the confidence of auditors, which is not conducive to the whole audit work.

As a worker in the IT field, IT is really important to learn how to build a computer. When you implement risk control, you need to know how to maintain the hardware of the computer. For example, when a computer has a hardware problem, you can use this kind of knowledge to know which part of the computer is wrong. When you work with other people in the IT field, Your communication is bound to be about computer hardware.This kind of knowledge will bring a lot of convenience to our audit work. Building a PC is a problem you will definitely encounter at work. Building computers is also fundamental to IT, so IT auditors must learn to build computers.

Building a computer in class with the building materials from scratch was such an amazing experience. It made me appreciate the fundamentals of what goes into a computer. I’m looking forward to how I can build these skills as an IT Auditor, being that this exercise helped me grasp a greater understanding of the basics of a computer, it can help enable me to look in right areas for improvement whenever a computer malfunction is occurring.

I think another good analogy is a referee in sports. If you have played the sport you are officiating you understand the moving parts much better. And your officiating you will be much more efficient and accurate. Having that understanding of the basic physical properties gives you a better perspective to make judgment calls. Knowing the physical properties can also give you insight into why certain rules/controls are established and what they are trying to prevent.

IT auditors need to detect and maintain the security vulnerabilities in the information system, which requires IT auditors have professional knowledge of information technology. Building a computer is one of the most basic and direct ways to understand the hardware needed to run a system and the connections between them. When something goes wrong with the security of an information system or a computer system, the IT auditor must pinpoint the cause of the problem by understanding every connection in the system. If an IT auditor cannot distinguish between the primary storage and second storage when making a judgment on the network security of a computer, his judgment is not convincing.

The reason to build a pc form the basic is to help us get a better understanding that the way computers and internet works. The point of building a PC from scratch is to learn the basic functions of PC and the basic element are general and common with other electronic devices. The take out with building PC is to get a full understanding of how PC work that as no tech background student.

The point of building a PC from scratch is to help us understand how PC works so that if there is a problem somewhere, we will know how to troubleshoot. With this knowledge, we can figure out the problem when the problem is related to hardware it self but not the software.

In my opinion, I feel as though an IT Auditor literally audits an organization’s IT structure and system to ensure that it is safeguarded with the proper software. This way when a cyber attack occurs, a recovery plan is in place, or a protective system can help block the threat from entering the organization. It is for this reason why IT Auditors are necessary because an organization that doesn’t have the proper systems in place to protect itself is vulnerable and susceptible to sensitive information being hacked into or stolen.

In my opinion, IT audit is a third party independent of the information system itself, information system-related development. IT auditors use standards to fully and effectively inspect and evaluate the activities and products that related to the planning, development, using and maintenance of information systems. The primary key for IT auditors is independence. They need using independence to audit information systems. The role of IT auditors is reducing risk, which means a small technical error can ripple through and affect the entire company. IT audits are important for evaluating internal controls in order to ensure that the organization and data are protected from external and internal threats.

Auditors are in a company to ensure efficient decision-making and to prevent the risk of fraud.The existence of auditors is better to improve the efficiency of the company.IT auditing is a demanding profession in the era of big data.To ensure the enterprise operating system safe and efficient operation.But also to prevent IT risks.An essential career position to reduce risk and control costs.IT audit in the company is the existence of auditors, is to protect the software development or system operation of the inspector.IT is also an important role in IT risk control.

I think IT auditors generally executive company IT system audit and supporting other general audits, such as financial audits, process audits, and providing IT support and data analysis. IT auditor also should analyze how organization, processes and IT systems work. IT auditor also should keep up IT trends and learn new acknowledge for emerging risk that impacts clients.

IT Auditors support the internal audit function within an organization. IT supports many aspects of an organizations business, and information must retain its confidentiality, integrity, and availability for it to function. As the digital world is always evolving, and many businesses and third parties are interconnected, it’s important for an IT Auditor to understand the risks associated with the IT in place, and they also must have the technical skills to make sure it’s working properly. There are many stakeholders in relation to a single organization’s IT Security. These stakeholders could be employees, customers, and even the general public. IT Auditors are needed to assure a strong framework is in place to protect these stakeholders, and make necessary recommendations when levels of security fall short. This involves implementing administrative, physical, and technical controls, in order to prevent and react to cyber attacks and the misuse of sensitive information.

IT Auditors review an organizations Information Technology systems, operations, controls, and strategy to ensure that all of those components are appropriately maintained to ensure that the organizations is adequately protecting all the information they have collected from employees, customers, suppliers and vendors is safe and accurate. They are necessary because modern IT systems are so large, complex, and evolve so quickly that any breakdown in one of the components puts the organization at risk and auditors are helping to avoid that risk. Their role within the organization can take on many forms but sould always be to question and analyze any information they get about the IT systems.

IT auditor maintain company system. They design a process to audit technology, to figure out what the vulnerable/weakness the system have, report to IT support and ask them to improve it. So IT auditor need to be detailed-oriented, and have basic technical knowledge. IT auditor is necessary because now cyber-security is a crucial topic in business area. In recent years, information leakage always happened, a lot of people’s personal information and their card information leaked, which caused enormous financial loss and reputation loss. So to avoid this sort of event happened again, company need IT auditor check and maintain company’s system security. In the organization, they are under IT support department.

In my opinion. IT Auditors are the one who set rules or check periodically for the IT System, whether they are internal auditors or external auditors. They are necessary because in most companies, people aim for profit first. They might not pay enough attention for the IT Security risks which may cost them more. IT Auditors are the guy who prevent or deal with those IT Security risks.

IT auditors are responsible for analyzing and evaluating the company’s technical infrastructure to ensure that processes and systems operate accurately and efficiently while maintaining security and compliance with regulatory requirements. IT auditing is important for assessing internal controls and processes with the ultimate goal of ensuring that the organization and its data are protected from external or internal threats. As a result, IT auditors play a critical role in an organization, where a small technical error or misstep can ripple through and affect the entire organization.

From my point of view, IT auditor is responsible for improving internal processes and performance, report problems of the infrastructure and applications, analyze data and increase internal controls. Because there is a demand that requires the professional person to identify, document, summarize and present audit findings to external and internal issues