Trusted Technology Audit Services
Our expert team delivers specialised IT audit services across core domains, ensuring comprehensive technology governance, security, and compliance for your organisation.
Trusted Methods. Tangible Impact.
We help organisations grow responsibly by providing assurance over their most significant technology risks. Our focus is on strengthening governance, infrastructure, and controls to support strategic delivery and resilience.
We work closely with IT leadership to assess how systems, data, and emerging technologies—like AI, ML, and automation—align with business goals and regulatory expectations. Using data analytics, we identify risk trends and control gaps to deliver actionable insight.
We also provide assurance over major IT programmes and change initiatives, enhancing confidence in governance, delivery, and value realisation. All work aligns with IIA and Public Sector Internal Audit Standards.
Our Service Models
Explore our agile IT audit service models built to flex with your tech, scale with your business, and keep you ahead of compliance.
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IT Strategy, Governance & Risk
Value Proposition: Align IT operations and investments with business strategy and risk appetite
Delivered Benefits:
- Ensure IT strategy directly supports business goals and risk appetite
- Strengthen governance and risk management frameworks
- Improve data integrity, consistency, and regulatory compliance
- Enhance visibility for decision-makers and optimise IT investment
- IT risk insights with board reporting and maturity mapping
Regulatory Compliance & Certification
Value Proposition: Meet global and industry-specific compliance requirements with confidence
Delivered Benefits:
- GDPR/UK DPA & ISO/IEC 27001 Readiness
- Maintain PCI DSS compliance for secure payment data handling
- Build stakeholder trust through SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 audits
- Strengthen internal controls in line with SOX requirements
- Meet CBEST and threat intelligence standards for regulated industries
Cyber & Information Security Assurance
Value Proposition: Validate and strengthen cyber defenses to protect data, systems, and reputation
Delivered Benefits:
- Strengthen cyber resilience through comprehensive infrastructure and system audits
- Identify and remediate vulnerabilities via penetration testing and architecture reviews
- Enhance readiness for ransomware, phishing, and targeted attacks
- Boost stakeholder confidence through robust incident response and privileged access reviews
- Secure modern environments, including IoT and virtual systems
IT Risk & Controls Review
Value Proposition: Ensure strong IT internal controls, compliance, and reliable financial reporting
Delivered Benefits:
- Identify and remediate ITGC and application control gaps
- Validate access, SoD, workflow, and reporting controls
- Enhance audit efficiency through automation and tooling
- Reduce fraud risk via robust access and security reviews
- Ensure ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) support compliance
Cloud & Infrastructure Resilience Audit
Value Proposition: Ensure your cloud and hybrid environments are secure, compliant, and performant
Delivered Benefits:
- Strengthen IT infrastructure security across networks, platforms, and environments
- Assess cloud and application security, including identity and access controls
- Enhance backup, recovery, and business continuity across hybrid architectures
- Improve data loss prevention and incident response readiness
- Ensure resilient change and deployment to support service performance and scalability
Advanced Technology Audit
Value Proposition: Confidently adopt AI, ML, blockchain, and analytics with audits aligned to ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF for trusted governance and compliance.
Delivered Benefits:
- Validate AI/ML models for fairness, explainability, and risk mitigation
- Assess blockchain architecture for integrity, smart contract security, and auditability
- Review advanced analytics and predictive models for data quality and regulatory compliance
- Enhance trust in automation, robotics, and AI-enabled decision systems
- Ensure alignment with responsible innovation, privacy, and emerging governance frameworks
IT Programmes and Project Assurance
Value Proposition: Improve project success rates by embedding assurance, governance oversight, and performance monitoring into strategic initiatives.
Delivered Benefits:
- Improve project outcomes through business case validation & risk analysis
- Strengthen governance and delivery oversight with PMO and stage gate reviews
- Enhance technical assurance via requirements and design assessments
- Support value realisation with portfolio reviews and benefits tracking
- Provide clear, objective insights to senior leadership and regulators across the project lifecycle
Technology Resilience & Third-Party Assurance
Value Proposition: Minimise operational disruption and third-party risk through targeted assessments and resilience planning.
Delivered Benefits:
- Strengthen technology resilience through infrastructure reviews and recovery capability assessments
- Enhance business continuity and disaster recovery readiness with structured testing and BCP validation
- Improve crisis response through incident simulation and tabletop exercises
- Minimise disruption and improve efficiency by addressing third-party control gaps and optimising supplier governance.
- Ensure compliance with assurance frameworks such as ISAE 3402 and SSAE 18
Data Governance & Privacy Audit
Value Proposition: Enhance data protection, privacy, and governance to reduce regulatory risk, prevent data breaches, and ensure trusted, compliant data practices across the enterprise.
Delivered Benefits:
- Strengthen data governance and improve data quality across systems
- Reduce breach risk through targeted data security and vulnerability assessments
- Evaluate and improve data loss prevention and privacy programme effectiveness
- Manage security requirements including data classification, retention, and access
- Ensure compliance with assurance frameworks such as ISAE 3402 and SSAE 18
Industries We Support
Tech audit expertise, built for your sector
Why: Strict FCA regulations, SOX for listed entities, PCI DSS, and operational resilience requirements.
Focus: ITGCs, cybersecurity, third-party risk, cloud compliance, CBEST testing.
Why: Sensitive patient data (NHS, GDPR, UK DPA 2018), medical device regulations.
Focus: Data privacy, access controls, ISO 27001, incident response, system availability.
Why: National cybersecurity mandates (e.g. NCSC), public data handling, procurement scrutiny.
Focus: Information assurance, infrastructure security, risk assessments, IT governance (COBIT).
Why: Tenant data protection, regulatory compliance (e.g. RSH), and cyber risks.
Focus: GDPR, IT continuity, supplier assurance, Microsoft 365 & cloud audits.
Why: Growing digital transformation, student data protection, funding compliance.
Focus: Network security, device access controls, DDoS protection, cloud security audits.
Why: Cardholder data, online fraud risks, high customer volume.
Focus: PCI DSS, web app testing, payment gateway audits, third-party platform risk.
How Our Technology Audit Service Works
Our audit process is streamlined, expert-led, and built to deliver clarity and assurance — all in 4 simple steps.
Why Choose Global Forum Consulting?
Trusted provider of tech audits—protecting and enhancing enterprise value by evaluating governance, systems, operations, and innovation.
Trusted Tech Auditors
15+ Years | 500+ Audits. Proven technology audit expertise across industries
Top-Tier Partnerships
Trusted by top-tier consulting and accounting firms for scalable, high-impact assurance
Intelligent Audit Technology
Powered by AI, automation, and analytics for faster, deeper, and more accurate results
Customised, Flexible Delivery
Full outsourcing, co-sourcing, or ad-hoc support—tailored to your needs
Actionable Insights
Practical recommendations that strengthen controls and drive measurable improvements
Low Disruption, High Impact
Streamlined audits that save costs, minimise disruption, and maximise value