Auditmation: Auditmation is a 3rd party IT audit and risk automation data platform that enables auditors, advisory firms, and risk tools to strengthen audit integrity and independence in neutral, mechanized data rooms. Using automated evidence and testing, our partners can deliver higher value, tech-enabled audit and risk assurance services that reduce the audit burden and drive cyber risk out of their client organizations. Connection Node: The Connection Node serves as a critical component of Auditmation in that it allows the SaaS platform to securely collect data from the IT systems of a client organization and/or perform IT compliance tests on them. The client organization must install and run the Connection Node in their own account on Azure Cloud. This approach ensures that they have full control over the component that will be interacting with their IT systems. Setup: The Connection Node requires a one-time technical initialization during the platform onboarding process. To help simplify this process, Auditmation has created an Azure Resource Manager template that declares the Azure resources that will make up the stack used by the Connection Node, and Azure Resource Manager will take care of provisioning those in an orderly and predictable fashion. The overall setup is comprised of the following steps: 1) Installation of a Connection Node within your Azure environment 2) Creation of secrets in a secrets manager (e.g., Azure Key Vault, Hashi Vault) to provide the Auditmation platform with least privilege access to the IT systems 3) Creation of connections to each one of the IT systems via the Connection Node