Advisory IT & Digitalisation

Audit of a cloud-based IT environment

Christopher Oehri
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Advancing digitalisation has led to companies increasingly moving applications to the cloud, which entails risks. Auditing a cloud-based IT environment is a specialised task that requires technical knowledge and experience.

It is of great importance for today's auditors to understand the specific aspects and challenges of such an audit - from legal aspects and risks in access management to audit law and transparency.

In the February issue of Expert Focus, Christopher Oehri provides an overview of the most important points that auditors should consider when auditing an institution that processes or stores data in a cloud environment.