Traditional soloed Audit approach, where Finance, OPS and IT are examined separately, there may potentially be a missing connections between Operational Risks and IT Vulnerabilities.
Integrated Audit considers the relationship between IT System, Financial and Operational controls as a whole, looking for weaknesses and inefficiencies including at the intersection of these areas – accuracy of the manual and automated feeds, system interfaces, and communications ensuring that both manual and automated transactions are approved and processed accurately in a timely manner-and uncovers potential Risks, identifies how OPs Risks could be amplified by IT vulnerabilities and vice versa, that wouldn’t be evident through separate Finance, OPs and IT Audits.