خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب Mastering the IT Audit: Assuring a resilient and compliant IT landscape through effective audit (English Edition)

The role of the IT team spans the full lifecycle of assets. It begins with the procurement and onboarding of IT resources, followed by configuration, governance, and identification of critical infrastructure. To ensure operational continuity, the IT team should establish robust backups, monitor system thresholds, and execute strategic capacity planning.This book is about learning the IT landscape, perimeter setup, and the interfaces to business applications. The landscape covers all appliances in network, server, and storage management, their configuration, and maintenance. Capacity, incident, and change management are governance activities of the IT team. In addition to these, the auditor has to understand security policies, patching practices, and segregation of networks for proper access control.Learning IT auditing helps one become an efficient IT engineer. Auditors bring a strong foundation in systems, controls, and risk management. With focused learning and the right mindset, they can transition into engineers who build secure, efficient, and compliant systems from the beginning. Learning IT auditing will help one to become a good IT service executive, administrator, and architect.What you will learn● Defining the scope of the IT landscape in supporting the business.● Implementing controls based on ITIL and ISO 20000.● Governance mechanisms, assets, configuration, and change management.● Administering devices, appliances, and storage systems.● Ensuring continuity and recovery for critical business operations.● Importance of logging and monitoring for ensuring availability.● Security controls for IT infrastructure, network, and operations.● Conducting audits, writing audit reports, and ensuring remediation.Who this book is forThis book is intended for the middle management team involved in IT service management, risk, quality, and audit management activities. Server, network, and endpoint device administrators, IT architects, risk managers, crisis managers, and system monitoring team leads will benefit by learning to implement required governance and compliance mechanisms in IT service management for their career growth.Table of Contents1. IT Audit and Assurance Standards Statements2. IT Audit Defined, Charter and Criteria3. Planning, Scheduling, Reporting and Follow-ups for Audit4. Types of Audits5. IT Policies, Processes and SOPs6. Risk Management and Impact Analysis7. Procurement, Asset, Capacity, and Cloud Service Management8. Access Management and Acceptable Usage Policy9. Network, Server, Storage and Endpoint Management10. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning11. Organization Context and IT Services12. Logging and Monitoring Services13. KPIs and Status Reports14. BCP Drills, Plans and Reports15. Configuration and Change Management16. IT Audit Frameworks ISO 20000 and ITIL17. Organizations, People, Data and Technology Processes18. Partners, Value Streams and Processes19. Scope of Audit and Audit Plan20. Review of Policy and Controls21. Interviews, Site Visits and Technical Testing22. Audit Findings and Actionable Audit Report23. Evolving with the Audit Landscape