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Audit Management

What is Audit Management?

The administration and coordination of audit activities including planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and tracking of findings and remediation.

Audit and Assurance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as audit management. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on audit management

Requirements naming audit management across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

The internal audit manager implements board-approved audit directives, sets clear lines of authority and reporting for all audit personnel, ensures the audit staff have the independence, experience, education, training and skills their work needs, and is respo...

ffiec-it-examination-handbook::AUD-03 · Audit Management (Audit) →
CMMC 2.01 control

Restrict the ability to manage audit logging functionality to a limited subset of privileged users, separate from general administrators.

AU.L2-3.3.9 · Audit Management →

Run a defined audit management process covering planning, risk analysis, control assessment, conclusions, remediation timetables, report production, and re-examination of earlier reports and their supporting evidence.

CCM-A&A-05 · Audit Management Process →

A defined audit management process, consistent with relevant auditing standards, is put in place and used to plan audits, analyse risk, assess security controls, reach conclusions, schedule remediation, produce reports and revisit earlier reports and their evi...

cloud-security-alliance-cloud-controls-matrix-ccm-v4-1::A&A-05 · Audit Management Process →
ISO 37302:20252 controls

Consistent with ISO 37301, the framework supplies an indicator for every component of the compliance management system; an indicator may rest on one requirement or on several taken together.

iso-37302-2025::5.3 · Evaluation indicator framework (Table 2) →

The establishment runs a documented management system that delivers the Standard consistently. At minimum it identifies the welfare-related laws, permits and customer requirements that apply to processing, controls and monitors the welfare-relevant processes (...

amic-industry-animal-welfare-standard-for-livestock-processing-establishments::4.1 · 4.1 Animal welfare management system and its minimum content →

Questions people ask about audit management

What is Audit Management?
The administration and coordination of audit activities including planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and tracking of findings and remediation.
Why is Audit Management important for compliance?
Audit Management is a key concept in Audit and Assurance. Understanding audit management helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Audit Management?
Audit Management appears in the requirement text of FFIEC IT Examination Handbook, CMMC 2.0, Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.0.1, Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) v4.1, ISO 37302:2025. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Audit Management?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how audit management applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

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