Deploying an agent platform to automate the IT infrastructure auditing process

Abstract

IT audit is employed in business organizations to demonstrate they hold the control for the correct and efficient functioning of their IT infrastructure. It is slowly moving from a completely practitioners' concern into a research domain. There is a need for identifying new methods that could facilitate an objective, real time and cost-effective assurance. This paper proposes a method to automate the IT audit process. Our approach is based on ontologies for formalizing the vast audit knowledge and on intelligent agents for real-time audit and risk assessment. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.