C1 SmartStart for Audit Management
Modernize and Automate Your Entire Audit Lifecycle in ServiceNow
C1 SmartStart for Audit Management rapidly deploys ServiceNow’s Audit module using best-practice configurations that automate planning, fieldwork, evidence requests, documentation, and remediation. Spreadsheets and email threads disappear—replaced by a centralized, auditable, scalable system of record for your entire audit program.
Key Benefits
- Centralized audit universe, planning, and annual calendar
- Automated evidence requests with full traceability
- Standardized fieldwork templates and documentation structures
- Integrated findings and remediation workflows
- Real-time dashboards for audit leaders and executives
- Stronger governance aligned to IIA standards
- Scalable foundation for continuous audit and AI-driven analytics
- Seamless integration with IRM controls and risks
Why This SmartStart Matters
Most audit teams rely on scattered spreadsheets, shared drives, and inconsistent documentation. Evidence gets lost. Findings are hard to track. Reporting requires manual effort. Nothing is centralized, and audit readiness is never continuous.
SmartStart for Audit Management fixes that.
C1Secure deploys a complete audit lifecycle inside ServiceNow—planning, scoping, fieldwork, evidence collection, testing, findings, remediation, and reporting. Evidence requests move out of inboxes and into structured workflows, while dashboards offer real-time transparency into progress, overdue tasks, and risk coverage. The result is a modern audit function: consistent, defensible, and efficient.
Capabilities
Risk-Based Planning & Audit Calendar
Configure audit universe, annual planning workflows, prioritization, and scoping.
Automated Evidence Requests
Structured tasks with ownership, tracking, and full audit trail.
Fieldwork Templates & Workpapers
Standardized documentation aligned to your methodology and IIA best practices.
Findings & Observations Management
Severity models, review flows, and integrated issue remediation.
Remediation Workflow with SLAs
Track deadlines, escalations, approvals, and evidence validation.
Lifecycle Automation
Planning → fieldwork → reporting → closure in a unified system.
Executive & Audit Committee Dashboards
Real-time visibility into audit progress, risk coverage, and remediation status.
Audit–Risk–Control Integration
Connect engagements to risks, controls, and policies across IRM.
Embedded Training & Enablement
Administrators and stakeholders trained for sustained success.
How It Works
- Establish audit universe, scoping, and annual plan
- Configure evidence workflows and fieldwork templates
- Deploy findings, observations, and remediation flows
- Connect audits to risks, controls, and authority documents
- Launch dashboards for Internal Audit and executives
- Enable audit methodology and stakeholder training
- Transition to production with ongoing support options
Who It’s For
- Chief Audit Executives (CAE)
- Internal Audit Leaders
- Compliance Officers & Assurance Teams
- IRM Program Owners
- CIO / CTO / Risk Leaders
- Platform Owners seeking automation and standardization
Use Cases
Replace Spreadsheet-Driven Audit Programs
Centralize planning, documentation, assignments, and reporting.
Outcome: One system of record for all audit activities.
Automate Evidence Collection
Structured workflows replace email chains.
Outcome: Faster fieldwork, complete audit trails.
Standardize Fieldwork & Workpapers
Prebuilt methodologies and templates.
Outcome: Higher quality, consistency, and repeatability.
Improve Issue Remediation & Tracking
SLAs, escalations, and validation workflows.
Outcome: Faster closure and fewer repeat findings.
Enable Real-Time Audit Reporting
Dashboards update automatically as work progresses.
Outcome: Continuous audit readiness and stronger governance.
Why C1Secure
C1Secure delivers a proven SmartStart model that gives organizations a modern, structured audit program—aligned to IIA standards, integrated with IRM, and ready for future innovations like continuous audit and SmartAI-assisted analytics. You get rapid implementation, best-practice configuration, and measurable efficiency from day one.
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