Zero trust audit method

A paradigm shift that transforms today’s broken IT audit structure

IT audit has a data Independence  Integrity Automation  Collaboration Frequency Transparency Coverage Incentive Neutrality Truth Integration Vendor Risk problem

/ audit • mā • tion /

In today's cyber threat landscape, hoping for the best is no longer acceptable, and since audits can't be trusted, a reckoning is coming. Auditmation™ defines a new audit standard that will influence every auditee, advisor, assessor, and technology provider in the shared risk pool.
origin & etymology

auditmation today

Traditional Audit vs. Auditmation™

Today’s broken audit structure has driven organizational risk and compliance data integrity to the brink.

Human-driven audit

AICPA and framework requirements like SOC 2 set a LOW BAR!
Today's 10% - 15% population sampling standard and manual evidence collection practices yield compromised data validity and assurance.

  • Self-attested, human compliance verification
  • 10% population sampling on an annual basis
  • Low to no scalability
  • No competitive differentiation
  • “Validation” by spreadsheets
  • No vendor InfoSec assurance 

Zero Trust Audit

Regardless of the framework, Auditmation™ leverages RPA Bots to
drive zero trust assurance and delivery throughout every audit stream,
and population and control coverages up to 100% - DAILY.

  • Independent, 3rd party assessment structure
  • 100% population coverage – every single day
  • Risk mitigation at the highest scale
  • Competitive distinction
  • Truth by real time machine-driven source data
  • Manage vendor InfoSec SLAs

Absence of
third party
zero trust

The days of trusting vendor self-attested compliance verifications are over,
and actions like these come with consequences.

# 50
THIRD PARTies

The highest cost amplifier of a data breach

20 %
organizations

Use spreadsheets and manual TPRM processes

1
hours

Spent on completing third-party risk assessments each year, at an average cost of $1.9 million annually

$ 1
million

Cost of failing to evaluate third parties effectively

1 %
data breaches

Are linked to a third party

Audits are broken.
Trust is Zero.
Risk events are catastrophic.

a reckoning is coming!

Our Visionaries Are Talking

The biggest challenges we face as an audit firm, are the perversely counterintuitive standards set by the AICPA.  It’s no wonder 3rd party audits have become as valuable as the paper they are written on.  As a result and through Auditmation™, we’re making a strategic shift by working with our Vendor Risk Management team to bring a continuous auditing structure that will actually embrace meaningful findings and control deficiencies that can impact risk mitigation for enterprise organizations, and their entire ecosystems.

Lead auditor

Compliance & Assurance Advisory, National Audit Firm

Predictions

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The days of accepting omitted, curated, or auditee created evidence data are over!

Zero trust for 3rd party auditing enables

the truth and nothing but.

access the truth and nothing but

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Audit: / au • dit /

Latin Origin: First known use in 15th century, with little to no tech or process evolution since… like NOTHING!
Noun:
  1. : back in the day when people used to ask other people for paper documents, scrolls, or pictograms (of their choosing) as evidence
  2. : a time when the evidence collection method was a slow and tedious human driven process – even a cave man could do it
  3. : back when grown adults accepted written questions and answers to authenticate compliance adherence, and pretended everyone told the truth
  4. : a time when people could manipulate pictures or swap out real data with “samples”, and were awarded the coveted gold star, plus a wink
  5. : back when a concept called Zero Trust applied everywhere else, EXCEPT with audit standards

Audit In A Sentence:

Well hell! You wouldn’t use an accountant to develop technology to try to scale audit automation, would you?

Auditmation: / audit • may • shn /

American Origin: Created in 2021 to regain the trust and integrity of today’s IT audits, through machine-validated continuous truth
Noun:
  1. : independent, machine-driven assessment and audit automation process, eliminating human intervention
  2. : method by advanced robotic process automated means, producing unbiased immutable data integrity
  3. : replaces dependency on people, process, and tools, with automated testing to 100% of control and population coverage
  4. : proprietary method for obtaining evidence data from its source, bypassing all traditional intermediaries
  5. : a state of continuous risk assessment and testing, against every policy, procedure, implementation statement, and control

Auditmation In A Sentence:

The days of auditors accepting omitted, curated, or auditee created evidence are over, and Zero Trust for 3rd party auditing enables the real audit truth