In October 2019, Protiviti and ISACA released the 2019 Global IT Audit Benchmarking Study, for which we surveyed more than 2,200 internal audit (IA) executives and professionals around the world. We summarized the key findings of the survey in a previous article and we discussed them at greater length during a recent webinar.

In this article, Protiviti’s Samir Datt elaborates on one specific finding, which made the top ten priorities of IT auditors for the first time in 2019 — ‘‘bridging IT and the business.’’