This week we talked about a variety of storage components and how they all technically worked at a very detailed level. While you may never work in a factory that manufactures hard drives, as an IT Auditor why do you think it is important to understand and appreciate the variety of storage components that exist in an organization?
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Natalie Dorely says
As an IT Auditor, it’s important to have a base understanding of storage components because it will help to understand where everything is being stored. It’s important to know how back-up/recovery systems work together in holding information. So in the event that a specific file needs to be retrieved, an IT Auditor would know where to search for it.
Patrick J. Wasson says
Good thoughts Natalie!
Jason Poli says
Storage is an aspect of a PC that has both a Physical AND intrinsic value attached to it, because of the data being stored by any given organization. For many companies, this data can be its most crucial asset like trade secrets and sensitive customer personal information, As IT Auditors we need to know everything about these assets in order to assure their protection, and therefore, learning about the storage component of an organization’s enterprise is very important. We need to understand where and how the data is stored. and how it’s accessed, in order to effectively manage risks and advise on controls that can prevent any type of theft or breach by cybercriminals. We need to understand how data is stored, how often it may be backed up, and everything that may cause a vulnerability to a cyber attack.
Patrick J. Wasson says
Thanks for contributing to the discussion!!
Zhibin Wang says
As am IT auditor, it is important to understand the diversity of storage component, which can help us have a better understanding of IT systems. When auditors conduct auditing in auditee or companies, they must know what they are checking. If we do not turn on the disk management, we dno’t know the situation about the disks. It is important for the companies to have backups, which can reduce the risk when data lost or disk suffer from physical damage.
Patrick J. Wasson says
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Lingyi Xu says
Storage components are very important for the IT system, which are used by the computer as a location to store bulk data until it’s required. For an IT auditor, it is a good experience to get IT knowledge. Many people never work in a factory that manufactures hard drives, so it is a good way to know the basic knowledge of storage components. For me, it is the first time to know the storage components, I think that it is very interesting.
Patrick J. Wasson says
Thanks for contributing to the discussion!!
Junjie Han says
For enterprises, the content of storing electronic materials is even more important, and may involve related business secrets such as contracts, independent intellectual property rights, and employee information. We need to understand the structure of the storage hardware. When a part of a company or company file is attacked or lost. The knowledge of these storage hardware is very important when we are targeting vulnerabilities. This is a necessary experience for us to verify problems and vulnerabilities, so storing hardware knowledge is needed. In addition to prevention, companies need to back up some important files for a long time, and be able to recover lost files at any time. The integrity of company data has been protected. IT personnel need to understand how the storage works to maintain the company’s normal business.
Patrick J. Wasson says
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Xinyi Mao says
As an IT auditor, especially audit hardware devices, we should know whether the company has good devices to work for the company. One reason that leads to data leakage is the computer devices are too old to service the data transaction and cause a series of vulnerabilities. If we know the storage is important for the company and checking the status of storage, we can avoid some potential hardware risks and do a better job.
Patrick J. Wasson says
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Qiannan Zhen says
Storage components involve the storage security and cost pressures of an organization’s information. As the amount of digital information stored increases, so does the pressure on organizations to increase their storage capacity. After understanding the variety of storage components, we can help organizations improve the functionality and security of their storage solutions and reduce the storage cost for organizations.
Louis Gusbar says
Most of what hackers want is the data kept in storage. Therefore understanding storage is vital for IT auditors. With an understanding of the physical and digital components of information, storage is necessary in order to audit how well a company is protecting and accessing the data in the storage.
Dian Yu says
In my opinion, the importance of understanding storage components is that get understand of where everything is stored, and also important to understand the organization process of the backup/restore system store information together. It’s also important as an IT audit to know that the organization or firms are storing data which might be the most critical Intangible asset, we need to get deep understanding in order to give our advice for effectively manage the risk and can prevent cybercriminals.
Peiran Liu says
The importance of understanding storage is that if my scope of audit contains a defect storage component, I will know if the data can be recovered and the performance of the remaining hard drives. With the variety of storage components that exist in an organization, the data will be saver than before while there will be more element that is needed to be audited.