A CISO arranges for security control testing to be performed by staff who work in a different department than the systems being evaluated. These evaluators are familiar with the organization's policies and report their findings to a governance committee. Which audit approach is being described?
An internal audit is conducted by personnel who work within the organization but maintain independence from the specific systems or processes being audited. The key characteristics in this scenario that identify it as an internal audit are: (1) the evaluators are staff from a different department within the same organization, (2) they have familiarity with organizational policies, and (3) they report to an internal governance committee. Internal audits allow organizations to leverage institutional knowledge while maintaining audit objectivity. This differs from external audits where independent third parties with no organizational affiliation conduct the evaluation, and from third-party audits which focus specifically on vendor or partner assessments.
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