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IT Audit and Governance

@IT_Audit

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7,029subscribers

+65 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001113361455
TypeChannel
Username@IT_Audit
CreatedBetween 1 February 2017 and 30 June 2019— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live25 August 2026
Measurements held8
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 25 August 2026
On Telegramt.me/IT_Audit

Growth

6,9647,0296,996.57 August 2026 — 6,964 subscribers7 August 2026 — 6,964 subscribers10 August 2026 — 6,968 subscribers13 August 2026 — 6,984 subscribers16 August 2026 — 6,996 subscribers19 August 2026 — 7,011 subscribers22 August 2026 — 7,018 subscribers25 August 2026 — 7,029 subscribers7 August 202625 August 2026
8 measurements spanning 18 days, net +65. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 6,954–7,039 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
25 Aug 2026, 13:367,029+11
22 Aug 2026, 16:437,018+7
19 Aug 2026, 09:477,011+15
16 Aug 2026, 19:236,996+12
13 Aug 2026, 07:456,984+16
10 Aug 2026, 11:506,968+4
7 Aug 2026, 21:016,964no change
7 Aug 2026, 14:486,964first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 22 January 2025the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 11 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 18 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Reaction mix

348 reactions across 16 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 47.1% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍16447.1%
11031.6%
🔥318.91%
👏277.76%
🏆144.02%
🥰20.575%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 16 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 348reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 22 January 2025 to 18 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
76
across the posts below
Posts paid on
13
of 20 we hold a reading for · 65%
Most on one post
16
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @IT_Audit. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 20 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 22 January 2025 to 18 July 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

18 Jul 2026, 05:57 UTC≈1,780 views4 reactions1 Starread 20 August 2026

For weeks you've told me what actually slows you down on an audit, how to test a control technically, and scoping. So I've building something for it. https://ctrls.report It's a full walkthrough of how I audit one control end to end, segregation of duties over production changes. The process, who to interview, the exact test steps, including where the evidence sits in AWS, Azure and GCP, and how to tell a pass from

👏4

Signed moon

6 Jul 2026, 17:56 UTC≈2,190 viewsread 20 August 2026
Poll

Biggest blocker. What slows you down most on an audit?

  1. Knowing exactly what evidence to request11%
  2. Knowing how to test a specific control technically27%
  3. Scoping, deciding what's in scope24%
  4. Turning a framework requirement into a real test20%
  5. Writing up findings / reports13%
  6. Nothing major, I just want more examples5%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Signed moon

29 Jun 2026, 12:32 UTC≈2,680 views5 reactionsread 20 August 2026
Poll

Hardest to audit. Which of these is hardest for you to actually audit?

  1. Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)31%
  2. Operating systems (Linux / Windows)6%
  3. Databases (SQL Server / Oracle / Postgres…)13%
  4. Identity & access (AD / Entra / Okta)5%
  5. Containers / Kubernetes20%
  6. Business apps / SaaS / ERP14%
  7. Networks / firewalls9%
  8. Other (leave comment)2%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

5

Signed moon

18 Jun 2026, 13:40 UTC≈2,960 views38 reactions10 Starsread 20 August 2026

Quick one. This channel is 9 years old and I want what I publish here to be far more useful and practical. I’m planning hands-on material on how to actually audit real systems against ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS, not theory, the real working-paper level. To aim it properly, I’ll be posting a few short, anonymous polls over the coming weeks, about 20 seconds each. Your votes shape what I build next. First one is abov

👍249🔥5

Signed moon

18 Jun 2026, 13:39 UTC≈2,670 viewsread 20 August 2026
Poll

Role. Which best describes you?

  1. IT/IS auditor - external (firm/practice)21%
  2. IT/IS auditor - internal30%
  3. GRC/Security/Compliance31%
  4. Independent consultant / contractor5%
  5. Student / moving into IT audit9%
  6. Other5%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Signed moon

31 Dec 2025, 23:26 UTC≈6,870 views74 reactionsread 20 August 2026

Who would find an introductory IT Audit webinar useful in 2026? — what IT audit looks like in practice — what different directions exist — what skills actually matter — expectations vs reality If this sounds useful, please leave a comment or react with 👍

👍674👏3

Signed moon

13 Nov 2025, 11:50 UTC≈7,900 views27 reactions10 Starsread 20 August 2026

🚀 Level Up Your SaaS Security The DevSecOps Hardening Blueprint You made it clear in the recent poll. Audit readiness is serious work and it only holds value when it is continuous. Here is the practical blueprint you can apply in any scaling SaaS environment, especially those using GitHub and Azure. 🔐 Phase One Secure the source of truth Code integrity • Track and log every code change in the version control pl

14🔥7👍5🏆1

Signed moon

10 Nov 2025, 11:25 UTC≈5,350 views16 reactions3 Starsread 20 August 2026

Audit Readiness Pricing – What the Numbers Actually Tell Us 82 professionals voted and the results are pretty clear. 🧩 34% said $8K to $20K feels realistic for proper readiness 📄 26% said $20K to $40K is fair if it includes documentation and advisory 🏢 18% expect $40K and above for larger or multi framework setups So about three quarters of respondents believe proper readiness work sits somewhere in the $10K to $4

8👍3🔥3🏆2

Signed moon

5 Nov 2025, 16:39 UTC≈4,530 views11 reactions1 Starread 20 August 2026
Poll

If you were considering an audit readiness engagement (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI DSS), what price range would you find reasonable for a consultant or boutique firm to handle the full readiness phase (gap analysis, roadmap, evidence prep, etc.)?

  1. Under $3,000 — lightweight and fast10%
  2. $3,000–$8,000 — fair for small orgs/startups18%
  3. $8,000–$20,000 — realistic for full-scope readiness35%
  4. $20,000–$40,000 — fine if it includes documentation and advisory22%
  5. $40,000+ — expected for larger orgs or multi-framework readiness15%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

6🏆3🔥2

Signed moon

15 Oct 2025, 13:37 UTC≈5,690 views25 reactions1 Starread 20 August 2026

A Tool Worth Adding to Your Audit Toolkit 🧩 Hi everyone 👋 I found an open-source project called AuditKit that’s worth sharing. I really liked the thinking behind it, simple, practical, and focused on automating the right parts of compliance. It scans AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365 environments against frameworks like SOC2, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, HIPAA, and CMMC. You get instant audit-ready reports showing your compl

12👏8🔥4🏆1

Signed moon

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @IT_Audit. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Stars beside a post are paid reactions — Telegram Stars, bought with money and spent on that post. They are a different unit from reactions and are never added to them, here or anywhere else on this page.

Polls

The 5 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.

6 Jul 2026, 17:56 UTCAnonymous Poll184 voters

Biggest blocker. What slows you down most on an audit?

  1. Knowing exactly what evidence to request11%
  2. Knowing how to test a specific control technically27%
  3. Scoping, deciding what's in scope24%
  4. Turning a framework requirement into a real test20%
  5. Writing up findings / reports13%
  6. Nothing major, I just want more examples5%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

29 Jun 2026, 12:32 UTCAnonymous Poll301 voters

Hardest to audit. Which of these is hardest for you to actually audit?

  1. Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)31%
  2. Operating systems (Linux / Windows)6%
  3. Databases (SQL Server / Oracle / Postgres…)13%
  4. Identity & access (AD / Entra / Okta)5%
  5. Containers / Kubernetes20%
  6. Business apps / SaaS / ERP14%
  7. Networks / firewalls9%
  8. Other (leave comment)2%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

18 Jun 2026, 13:39 UTCAnonymous Poll364 voters

Role. Which best describes you?

  1. IT/IS auditor - external (firm/practice)21%
  2. IT/IS auditor - internal30%
  3. GRC/Security/Compliance31%
  4. Independent consultant / contractor5%
  5. Student / moving into IT audit9%
  6. Other5%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

5 Nov 2025, 16:39 UTCAnonymous Poll159 voters

If you were considering an audit readiness engagement (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI DSS), what price range would you find reasonable for a consultant or boutique firm to handle the full readiness phase (gap analysis, roadmap, evidence prep, etc.)?

  1. Under $3,000 — lightweight and fast10%
  2. $3,000–$8,000 — fair for small orgs/startups18%
  3. $8,000–$20,000 — realistic for full-scope readiness35%
  4. $20,000–$40,000 — fine if it includes documentation and advisory22%
  5. $40,000+ — expected for larger orgs or multi-framework readiness15%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

8 Mar 2025, 17:21 UTCAnonymous Quiz385 voters

When developing metrics to monitor security, you pose the question: “Is the principle of least-needed functionality and access enforced?” What are you working to monitor? ✅

  1. Control implementation25%
  2. Control effectiveness35%
  3. Control policy28%
  4. Control efficiency12%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none.The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.

The shares need not add up to 100.Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.

Read from the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 22 January 2025 to 18 July 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Cyber Security News
@Cyber_Security_Channel · 56,432
Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 71 here — alongside 70 others — read 23 August 2026

This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 25 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“IT Audit and Governance” (@IT_Audit), 7,029 subscribers as measured 25 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/IT_Audit.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.