Shujinko, which makes automated enterprise compliance solutions, has made its SOC 2 audit preparation and readiness portion of its AuditX software available for free. Processing Content The software ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. A software audit is a daunting situation for any organization – one that creates demands and stress on IT staff and ...

An audit can be an unpleasant surprise, or it can be a welcome opportunity to get your organization's affairs in order. While some audits – such as those performed by the IRS – come as a surprise, ...

Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. A Gartner survey revealed increasing ...

In April 2022, we composed an article titled, “The Weaponization of Software License Audits.” It focused on how software license audits have long been used as a successful, revenue-generating tool for ...

Software audits are on the rise—a fact well-documented by Gartner. Software giants have long recognized that audits are a way to generate additional revenue, and vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM ...

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, ...

Companies engage in a range of audits, either auditing their suppliers, receiving audits from their customers, or inviting in auditing firms to undertake health checks of their businesses. Many audits ...

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 ...