Today IT-audit is the complex of measures aimed to research and to estimate the actual state of anу company IT infrastructure with minimal risks and costs for achieving the goals of the company.It is the comprehensive estimation of the status, opportunities and shortcomings of the existing information infrastructure.The complex upgrading of existing infrastructure or partial changes in the used systems can be made only in conditions of full data on the current state of the system.
The IT-audit allows to estimate the relevance of the current IT infrastructure and meeting of system to all business requirements as well as to apprize the financial and human costs necessary for changing or upgrading of the system. At the result the audit gives the opportunity to estimate the system according to: