Information Governance Audit

An effective information governance strategy provides overarching direction and guidance, with clear, supporting policies and procedures that enable an organisation to meet its legal and statutory obligations, and all other relevant codes of practice.

With information governance audits, there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach. Our strategic reviews are tailored to each organisation’s needs, and will vary greatly depending on key organisational objectives and the maturity of an organisation’s information governance strategy.

Our experienced consultants have conducted audits, and developed information governance and information management strategies for numerous organisations in local, state and federal government, as well as clients within the education, resource, construction, logistics and transportation sectors.

As part of our information governance audit, we assess your organisation’s;

Information architecture and information governance framework
Governance framework, policies and procedures
Information security
Records management strategy
Compliance to regulatory and legislative requirements including a gap analysis
Social media recordkeeping processes
Metadata standards and business classification schemes
Processes for freedom of information (FOI) requests
Identification of areas of risk and risk mitigation strategies
Archiving and disposal processes alongside retention and disposal schedules
Electronic document and records management system (eDRMS) performance and other related technology in use such as Office 365 and SharePoint

Information Governance Audit — Key Objectives & Outcomes

Understand regulatory and legislative requirements and assess whether they are being met
Identify and assign accountability
Assess data privacy and information security
Protect information from unauthorised access
Reduce the risk of data breaches and lost information
Support and enable efficient responses to FOI requests