IT Audit in Practice: Survival When You are Small-business Continuity and Resilience

Everyone needs a resilient operating model, and the pandemic has been the reality check showing how necessary it is to have a plan. Was your small-business or corporation prepared for the shift to remote work in early 2020? If not, you probably realized that business continuity is more than having the right systems and applications in place. The most important factor is people!  Although both large and small enterprises have accommodated and adapted, the smaller organizations with fewer resources and time have faced equal or greater hurdles when it comes to this type of planning.     Join ISACA’s IT Professional Practices Lead, Kevin Keh, as he interviews Cindy Baxter, Director, What’s the Risk, LLC and discusses the importance of having a business continuity and resilience plan for your business. Cindy discusses consistently updating your crisis team and notification systems, the importance of allowing an auditor to fully understand your business, accepting critical feedback throughout the entire audit process vs. waiting for the final report and more! Cindy also mentions how small business owners and employees shouldn’t get defensive or take the findings personally. Remember, the value comes not in the result, but in the adoption of the results and recommendations.   For more information on this topic, click here to download ISACA’s IT Business Continuity/Disaster Recover Audit Program.