Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics Dashboard

    The Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard offers an executive perspective on audit results and task breakdowns, enabling quick identification of areas needing attention. Starting from version 18.1.5, this dashboard is available in the Next Experience UI Framework for users on Vancouver or Washington DC versions.

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    Key Features

    • Role-Specific Access:
      • Audit Manager: Provides visibility into overall vulnerabilities.
      • Audit Administrator: Helps identify areas of concern promptly.
      • Audit Analyst: Aids in prioritizing risks based on criticality.
    • Reports Included:
      • Adequate Engagements: Shows the number of adequately closed engagements.
      • Audit Task Breakdown: Displays active audit tasks by type, state, and assignments.
      • Control Test Results: Breaks down completed control tests by effectiveness rating.
      • Controls by Engagement: Shows open controls by audit engagement.
      • Engagement Results: Counts conducted audit engagements and displays results per entity.
      • Inadequate Engagements: Displays engagements closed with inadequate results.
      • Issue Breakdown: Groups issues by engagement, state, or response.
      • Overdue Audit Tasks: Lists tasks that have surpassed their planned end dates.
      • Profiles by Engagement: Compares audit findings across selected entities.
      • Satisfactory Engagements: Shows engagements closed with satisfactory results.

    Key Outcomes

    The dashboard facilitates enhanced visibility into audit activities, allowing organizations to efficiently manage vulnerabilities and prioritize audit tasks. Users can access aggregated data and utilize interactive filtering to drill down into specific areas of concern. Note that the Premium dashboard will be deprecated in future instances, emphasizing the importance of transitioning to the standard version with available analytics features.

    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.
    Table 1. Reports
    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.

    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 be no longer 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