Question 710
During a regulatory readiness review at a municipal government, the IS auditor learns that shared administrator accounts prevent attribution of configuration changes. The affected operation supports citizen service accounts and public records. Public accountability and essential service access are affected. Which fieldwork step should the auditor prioritize to test the issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Correct. Reconcile identities to authoritative HR records and test joiner-mover-leaver, role segregation and privileged event reviews. The procedure directly tests the reported condition that shared administrator accounts prevent attribution of configuration changes. A defensible IS audit conclusion requires relevant and reliable evidence from the actual control population and period.
Incorrect Answers
Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. It protects a different risk than the evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion requirement.
Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. Recurrence here depends on evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion, not this safeguard.
Not the most direct fieldwork procedure for these facts. That protection can exist while evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion is still missing.