IT Auditor - The role - Draft of an Article This is the type of career that most of people hardly choose at university. Most people don't know the existence of this position. What you will never hear from a single child is "I want to be an auditor," much less an IT auditor, unless they've been coached by a CISA-certified parent. Once you are working, as an IT Analyst, Compliance, Risk or similar duties, you´ll have more opportunities to realize this career and importance of this role. Particularly on companies submitted to audit laws, like SOX, or even companies worried about the security and importance of their information, the role of system auditor is easily recognized. Once the company recognize the value of an audit, the companies have realized that these days, is very hard to talk about business, without talking about IT, Security Access , Data Mining,... That's why we have the IT auditor role. The professional is responsible to verify if the business risks related to IT is addressed. This professional must have business skills, soft skills and technical skills. To achieve his responsibilities he have to understand, process, people, and controls. Most of people is realizing that audit process is an important part of continuous improvement process. Hopefully, important careers like this, soon will be more familiar for the students and market.