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1. 1222 Compliance Checklist questions covering the requirements of IT Security.
2. The IT Security Compliance Checklist contains an investigation audit trails Questionnaires on numerous critical niche areas such as Access Management, Network Security, IT Infrastructure, Security Architecture, IT Security Policies, IT Standard operating procedures, Email & Communication Security, Data Center, IT Operations Security, Legal & Regulatory, Security in Suppliers relationship, ICT BCP & DR, Secure System Engineering, Protection from Malware, Cryptography, Logging & monitoring, Backups & restoration, Management of Technical vulnerabilities, Change management, Patch management, Capacity Planning, I.T Risk assessment and Risk treatment, Effectiveness of I.T Security controls, and many more.
3. These Compliance questionnaires are mapped to the mandatory critical controls requirements and domains . This will enable pinpoint non-compliance as well as focused remediation, and IT Security performance analysis from one audit to another audit over a period of time.
4. 09 types of analysis with tables and graphs based on the audit results.

1. Securely save the original checklist file, and use the copy of the file as your working document during  preparation/ conduct of the IT Security Audit.
2. Information Security assessments probe multithreaded Investigation audit trails. IT Security Checklist has hundreds of investigative questions. Invariably, the organization's IT processes are at various levels of ISMS maturity, therefore, use checklist investigation Questionnaires' quantum apportioned to the current status of threats emerging from risk exposure.
3. IT has a lot of verticals. That's why IT is one of the biggest departments in an organization. In the IT department, when auditing various verticals like Network security, Data center, access control etc use the drop down filter, and/or CTRL+F command for the suitable key word for the concerned niche you are  going to audit.

This checklist is useful for-

1. Organization Planning for SOC 2 Certification.
2. Compliance Audits
3. Gap Assessments
4. An organization that believes in survival of the fittest.
5. Enhancing longevity of the business.
6. Organizations keen for robust, resilient, and value-added IT Security Management systems.
7. Organizations keen to protect themselves against issues from IT Security requirements of ISOC 2.
8. Organizations that want to survive client audits.
9. Information Security Professionals.
10. Internal auditors of Information Security Management System
11. External Auditors of Information Security Management System
12. Auditors of the client organizations who are assigned to assess the ISMS capability of their Service Providers, Vendors, and contractors.
13. Students of Information Security Management System
14. SOC 2 Lead Auditor Training Participants
15. SOC 2 Lead Implementer participants
16. Professionals doing Career switchover to Information security.
17. Owners of Business.
18. CTO, CIO, CISO, HODs, SOC SPOCs from departments, IT Teams, Central Security Team

1. These IT Security Audit Checklists are prepared by an Expert Panel of Principal Auditors & Lead Instructors of SOC 2 Information Security Management System having aggregated panel team experience of over 300 years, under the aegis of SOC 2 Compliance Institute.
2. The checklists are validated by the Head of the expert committee panel and approved by SOC 2 Compliance Institute.

The IT Security Audit checklist on Requirements of SOC 2 Compliance, Trust Services Principles, and COSO Criteria follows the cardinals of:-

1. Risk-based thinking (RBT),
2. Process approach, and
3. PDCA (Plan Do Check Act) methodology.

The expert panel of SOC 2 auditors and Instructors have conducted hundreds of Information security audits and Training on SOC 2 Compliance.

Besides, there is a continuous calibration of the Lead Auditors w.r.t requirements, interpretation, and audit experiences.

1. IT Security audits are investigative audits carried out to confirm the status of SOC 2 compliance.
2. Value added IT audit cannot be performed effectively without meticulous planning, and preparation.
3. There is an important adage that “we never plan to fail, but invariably we fail to plan”. Ignorance is the germinating ground for Overconfidence. An ignorant child trying to catch fire gets burnt.
4. IT audit Checklist is an important working document of an auditor. It contains all IT performance, and security compliance questions against which the auditee must demonstrate evidences of compliance.
5. The auditor needs to keep referring to this working document throughout the audit to ensure that assessment is taking place in a focused planned manner, and no vital area is missed out in the investigation audit.
6. IT Security audit checklist improves the efficiency of the audit including time management. IT audit checklist serve as an aide-memoire that is equally useful for auditor or auditee,
7. It is extremely important to prepare and plan for an IT audit. The checklist to perform IT audit is essential component of audit planning and preparation. There are numerous IT niche areas to be covered during the assessment, and time is the biggest constraint for the auditor. The time-pressure viz urgency to cover niche verticals inadvertently or otherwise, makes an auditor to skip processes, sub-processes, critical elements thus resulting into erroneous audit outputs. For example, a fully body health check-up has a defined cycle time, if performed hurriedly, without planning, without preparation, with an urgency to complete the check-up "somehow-anyhow" would definitely produce erroneous results even though factual status of body organs and systems would be otherwise.
8. It takes plenty of years, and costly lessons learnt to arrive at a decent level of understanding of the IT Security. Therefore it is highly advantageous to have a well prepared detailed IT Security audit checklist. A meticulously prepared comprehensive Professional IT audit checklist has all the compliance questions to be covered by the auditor seamlessly. An auditor without IT audit Checklist would be like a soldier without weapon.

1. If a business is worth doing, then it is worth doing it in a secured manner. Hence, there can not be any compromise. Without a Comprehensive professionally drawn IT security checklist by your side, there is the likelihood that compromise may take place. This compromise is extremely costly for Organizations and Professionals.
2. IT Security audit is though very logical but requires a systematic detailed investigative approach. For a newbie entity (organization and professional) there are proverbial many a slips between cup and lips in the realm of information security management'.
3. Even with several years of experience by an entity's (organization and professional) side, information security assessments (read investigations) go astray due to several reasons including engineered distractions, bias, time constraint, (un)comfortable niches, auditee guided audit (investigation), lack of optimum exposure and experience etc.
4. Each vulnerability/Risk at the organization level, site level, department level, process, sub-process level, device & component level, tools/application level, people level, technology platform level, delivered products/services level, it is humanly possible to miss out a large number of unidentified vulnerabilities/risk due to various reasons including ignorance, rush, vested interest, insider threat, connivance between the various working groups, tendency to promote tools for shear commercial interests rather than a holistic security solution, and so on the list is very long. Comprehensive and detailed IT Security Checklist Questions enables "carpet bombing" of all SOC 2 requirements to detect what "exactly" is the compliance and non-compliance status.
5. What is the biggest risk for an organization? The biggest vulnerability is the "Gang of unidentified information security risks", lurking in the dark, ready to pounce when the victim organization least expects it. The risks in this Gang, work sympathetically, and in synergy to inflict maximum damage, including corporate Mortality, huge penalties by the customers/clients and regulatory bodies, flight of business, loss of reputation and brand value, loss of Jobs, Bankruptcy, etc. This becomes very much possible without a professionally drawn comprehensive and robust IT security Audit Checklist by your side.
6. Of course, IT security Audit becomes a robust, immensely focused, efficient, time saver exercise with sharp Checklist Questions, because the comprehensive professionally drawn IT security checklist is built over a period of time pooled by panel of SMEs having decades of experience. The checklists have significant number of dynamic questions leading to further deep audit investigation trail.

1. The exciting and challenging task of IT audit becomes smooth, and streamlined if you know the business model of the organization in which IT department is like a (internal) service provider and how IT department facilitates secure conduct of business through IT run secured platforms, IT secured systems, IT secured infrastructure, IT based secured DBMS,  IT security processes, IT security Policies, Network security, Secured Communications, Application security, Web security, Security of IT outsourced activities, IT legal compliances so on and so forth there are dozens and dozens more verticals which must be assessed by you as an auditor.  
2. It is strongly recommended to prepare an audit compliance questionnaires checklist well in advance and keep it handy during the audit so that no vital area remains un-audited by you before the audit time runneth over. If you are an experienced auditor, it is possible to prepare 40 to 70 audit checklist questions. Here, the IT audit checklist prepared by panel of highly experienced professional auditors have over 1200 IT audit Compliance Questions.