APA FORMATThroughout this course, you will develop an Audit Report. This will be your Key Assignment for the course, and each week you will focus on a core element to produce the final report. The fin

APA FORMAT

Throughout this course, you will develop an Audit Report. This will be your Key Assignment for the course, and each week you will focus on a core element to produce the final report. The final report must include strategies for implementation. These strategies will be mapped into the final audit report. The Audit Report will be for an enterprise with which you are familiar or a fictitious enterprise. The enterprise that you choose must be able to handle both near-term and future requirements in a distributed, virtual- or cloud-based environment.

WEEK: 1 (4pages)

do the following:

a.     Introduction

b.    Table of Content

1.     Choose the enterprise with which you will be working.

1. Describe the enterprise. Include the following:
   • Company purpose
   • Goals, objectives, mission statement
   • Hardware, software
   • Description of the IT Infrastructure (e.g., cloud-based, distributed)
2. Produce a proposal for the audit report
   • For this proposal, conduct research on IT audits, and find the elements and IT standards that will be part of your audit report
   • Produce an outline that shows what will be included on your audit report
   • Your proposed outline should be compatible with IT standards
   • Note: The most important key elements are the following:
     • Data center security preferably biometrics and gated and guarded
     • Daily routine backup
     • Data cleansing
3. Please add to the above list of elements and IT standards based on your research. Your list should be 8-12 items.

Your proposed outline should be 1–2 pages (800 words) in length.

WEEK: 2 (3pages)

do the following:

Develop a Cloud DREP (Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan) document that addresses how the IT department can respond to a disaster. The plan must address how to have the systems up and running in very short amount of time. Assume that the systems were in a complete efficient state prior to the disaster.   

Please use the following template to write the DREP (you may add to it as needed)Disaster Recovery Emergency Plan (DREP)Resource Requirements

1.     Data Requirements

1. • Precision of Data
   • Completeness of Data
   • Timely Transfer
   • Authorization of Data
   • Financial Data
2. Software Requirements
   • Software Backup
   • Hard Disk Backup
3. Hardware Requirements
   • Hardware Protection
   • Hardware Backup
4. Status of Off-Site Data

WEEK: 3 (3 pages)

do the following:

Part 1

Describe the listed risks below for the company you have chosen. You may add to this list to address risks that you find in the company that you have chosen for your Key Assignment.

1. Evaluation of Risk Effects Data CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability)
2. Computer Security and Accessibility
3. Fire Risk
4. Flooding Damages
5. Risk of Stealing or Tampering with Sensitive Data
6. Power Failure
7. System Administration
8. Backup Recovery

Part 2

Develop a checklist that will be used to implement the mitigation to the risk, in Week 4. Following is an example of what should appear on your checklist. Alter this for your chosen company.

1. A copy of the last audit report
2. System administration of IT accounts
3. The installed and updated software and hardware
4. List of all incremental backups and daily backups
5. List of any new installed IT use policies and rules and regulations
6. Data integrity, confidentiality, and usability of how you are implementing this

WEEK: 4 (3 pages)

do the following:

Identify mitigation strategies to address the list of risks (8 - 12) that you identified in Week 3. Use the following format for explaining how you will address each risk:

1.     Accept and recognize the risk with your executive management and IT staff and managers. Adjust or reduce the risk. The adjustment can be done by updating requirements or risk list Control the risk by lowering the causes of it.

1. Document everything and make sure it is correct.
2. Continue to monitor and watch the risk effects and causes of the risks.
3. Limit the recurrence of the risk and how to adjust your future of handling it.

Checklist: Make changes to the checklist that you started in Week 3, based on the risk analysis

WEEK: 5 (3 pages)

• Evaluation of the effectiveness of the report for meeting current and future challenges
• Identify future requirements
• Develop a strategy for implementation of the checklist developed in week 3
• Compare your implemented audit report via the checklist you developed in week 3 against an audit report of a well-reputable company

References

NOTE: ABOUT THE WORK

The complete work should be 10–12 total pages, not including the title and reference pages.

• Week 1: A proposal that will define an audit report and is compatible with IT standards. 
• Week 2: Cloud-based disaster recovery plan
• Week 3: Risk identification and analysis and audit checklist
• Week 4: Mitigation strategy for risks identified, and should evaluate report for completeness