Design Direct provides a variety of general and specialized IT auditing assistance. Our technology professionals, in locations throughout the world, understand the benefits and risks of information technology. We work with a variety of industries, system platforms and business applications. Whether for specific projects or under a more comprehensive arrangement, Design Direct can support your internal audit function so that your staffs – and your organization’s information systems – are working to their full potential.

Design Direct can support you, whether your IT audit department is short of staff or needs assistance with a particular issue or technology. Design Direct IT Audits solutions provide our clients with complete visibility of what is on their network, including desktop and laptops and servers right through to network printers and switches. We work closely with your internal audit personnel to enhance their knowledge of specific systems or technologies. We can augment their skills in ERP auditing techniques, performing integrated audits and assessing network security in client/server and e-commerce environments.

Many companies are finding it difficult to build or acquire – and then maintain – the depth and variety of technology skills necessary to assess the increasing flood of new information systems, regulatory requirements, new technologies and reengineered business processes. Others may have only infrequent needs for such skills, which makes the hiring of full-time staff impractical. And others, especially those who are expanding or moving into overseas markets, find it too expensive to have IT audit staff travel to review their systems in other parts of the country or the world.

When needed, Design Direct can assume responsibility
for your organization’s IT audit services by following ways:

Let our proven methodologies and IT audit solutions add value to your company.

Internally staffing the IT audit function is difficult for companies due to the complexity of most IT environments and requires several IT auditors. Design Direct Consulting will partner with your Internal Audit department to perform audits in the high-risk IT areas that management and the Audit Committee need to address immediately. Our experienced IT audit professionals identify higher quality audit findings and provide real solutions to assist your IT department in strengthening your company's controls.

Design Direct examines Change Controls, Access Controls, and IT Application Controls. In addition to strengthening these IT controls, we team with our CPAs to identify revenue leakage in your operational IT applications using data analysis and data mining techniques.

Design Direct starts with vendor and industry best practices for securing your IT infrastructure and then we modify these to fit your IT environment. Policies, procedures, and "hardening" guidelines are documented for each IT infrastructure component. We also provide guidance on selecting and implementing software tools to monitor your IT infrastructure security.

Design Direct can evaluate the internal threats from employees and contractors and external threats to your company's network and data.

Our IT audit approach is flexible and considers your organization’s culture, IT environment, systems, business operations and priorities. You will quickly realize the benefits of a globally available, experienced and well-trained IT audit staff: consistent, reliable quality; knowledge of the most advanced systems and professional practices; staffing flexibility; and the ability to focus internal resources on the most strategic issues.