Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard provides a comprehensive executive view of audit results and task breakdowns, enabling quick identification of areas of concern. It is available in the Next Experience UI Framework for users on the Vancouver or Washington DC versions starting with Audit Management application version 18.1.5.

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    Key Features

    • Roles and Access: Specific roles such as Audit Manager, Audit Administrator, and Audit Analyst are essential for effective use, providing visibility into vulnerabilities, identifying concerns, and prioritizing risks.
    • Interactive Filters: The dashboard supports interactive filtering and is linked to the Performance Analytics licensed version.
    • Data Visualizations: Key visual components include:
      • Adequate Engagements - Single Score for closed engagements with adequate results.
      • Audit Task Breakdown - Breaks down active audit tasks by type, state, and assignee.
      • Control Test Results - Displays completed control tests by effectiveness rating.
      • Controls by Engagement - Breakdown of open controls by audit engagement.
      • Engagement Results - Overall count and outcomes of audit engagements by entity.
      • Inadequate Engagements - Shows engagements closed with inadequate results.
      • Issue Breakdown - Counts issues grouped by engagement, state, or response.
      • Overdue Audit Tasks - Lists open tasks that have exceeded planned dates.
      • Profiles by Engagement - Allows comparison of audit findings across selected entities.
      • Satisfactory Engagements - Displays engagements closed with satisfactory results.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard, customers can efficiently monitor audit performance, prioritize critical tasks, and address vulnerabilities effectively, ultimately enhancing the organization's audit management capabilities.

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard provides an executive view into audit results and engagement breakdowns by task, allowing areas of concern to be identified quickly.

    Audit Engagement Overview dashboard

    Important:
    Starting with version 18.1.5 of the Audit Management application, the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard is available in the Next Experience UI Framework.

    If you are on Vancouver or Washington DC, you can view the dashboard in the Next Experience UI Framework.

    To access the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard in the Next Experience UI Framework, navigate to All > Audit > Analytics Overview.

    Audit Engagement Overview dashboard in Next Experience UI framework.

    The following roles and tasks are associated with this solution:
    • Audit Manager (sn_audit.manager): To have clear visibility into the overall state and volume of vulnerabilities within the organization.
    • Audit Administrator (sn_audit.admin): To pinpoint areas of concern quickly.
    • Audit Analyst (sn_audit.user): To prioritize which risks or tasks to focus on based on criticality to the organization.

    Audit Engagement Overview – Premium dashboard

    Important:
    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard with PA filters is now available as part of the Audit Management plugin.

    Starting with version 18.1.5, the Audit Engagement Overview – Premium dashboard is being prepared for future deprecation. It will no longer be available on new instances.

    As this dashboard uses interactive filtering, the licensed version of Performance Analytics is required.

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard has one view, with reports on engagement results and various drilldowns, with interactive filters.Audit Engagement Overview dashboard showing Engagement Results, Profiles, by Engagement, Controls by ENgagement, and interactive filters

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard contains the following visualizations:
    Table 1. Data visualizations
    Name Type Description
    Adequate Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with an adequate result.
    Audit Task Breakdown Horizontal bar Horizontal bar icon Total number of active audit tasks broken down by type, state, and assigned to
    Control Test Results DonutDonut icon The number of completed control tests, broken down by overall control effectiveness rating.
    Controls by Engagement Donut Donut icon Breakdown of the number of open controls by audit engagement
    Engagement Results Bar Bar icon Displays an overall count of audit engagements conducted for each entity. The chart is stacked to display the overall audit results for each entity.
    Inadequate Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with an inadequate result.
    Issue Breakdown Horizontal bar Horizontal bar icon Count of issues grouped by Engagement, State, or Response
    Overdue Audit Tasks List List icon3 List of open audit tasks that have exceeded the planned end date.
    Profiles by Engagement Donut Donut icon Select one or many entities to view and compare their audit findings.
    Satisfactory Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with a satisfactory result.