The supplier's preferred audit process may include the use of audit tools—software that scans an IT environment for evidence of noncompliance. The buyer should reject the use of audit software because ...

Wendy McMahon is a freelance writer and general tech geek who has been writing about technology for over 10 years. Follower her on Twitter at @wendymcmahon. With software makers such as IBM promising ...

You’ve gotten your letter from the vendor. The audit is coming and you’ve got to balance what licenses you have on your systems versus what you’re licensing contracts allow. The difference could cost ...

The fact that the Big Four audit firms are being used both for statutory and software licence audits should raise alarm bells in IT departments. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, the ...

The audit community’s adoption of electronic working papers to encourage collaboration has had an unintended consequence of creating dark data. That is, data trapped within these new documents, making ...

The words “software audit” can strike fear into even the most unflappable business executive’sheart. Just as the sight of a police cruiser on the freeway compels all but the most foolhardy toslow down ...

It is a little ironic that in the high tech software world, your liability sometimes comes down to whether you saved the receipt. If you face an audit and don’t have the records to support all of the ...

Auditing is, at best, a cumbersome and time-consuming engagement. Whether it’s an audit of internal controls, or one to produce audited financial statements, there’s always a fairly complex and time- ...

You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...