Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Audit Engagement Overview Performance Analytics dashboard

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard delivers an executive-level view of audit results and task breakdowns, enabling quick identification of areas of concern within audit engagements. This dashboard supports audit management by providing visibility into engagement outcomes, control effectiveness, and issue prioritization across the organization.

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    Starting with Audit Management version 18.1.5, the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard is available in the Next Experience UI Framework, accessible via All > Audit > Analytics Overview. This update is applicable for customers on versions Vancouver, Washington DC, and later.

    Roles and Use Cases

    • Audit Manager (snaudit.manager): Gain clear visibility into the overall state and volume of vulnerabilities.
    • Audit Administrator (snaudit.admin): Quickly identify and focus on areas of concern.
    • Audit Analyst (snaudit.user): Prioritize risks and tasks based on criticality to the organization.

    Key Features and Reports

    The dashboard includes a variety of report types that provide actionable insights into audit engagements:

    • Adequate, Satisfactory, and Inadequate Engagements (Single Score): Display counts of engagements closed with corresponding outcome ratings.
    • Audit Task Breakdown (Horizontal Bar): Shows active audit tasks segmented by type, state, and assignee.
    • Control Test Results (Donut): Visualizes completed control tests by overall effectiveness rating.
    • Controls by Engagement (Donut): Breaks down open controls by audit engagement.
    • Engagement Results (Bar Chart): Provides counts of audit engagements by entity with stacked results.
    • Issue Breakdown (Horizontal Bar): Groups issues by engagement, state, or response.
    • Overdue Audit Tasks (List): Lists open audit tasks that have passed their planned end dates.
    • Profiles by Engagement (Donut): Enables selection and comparison of audit findings across entities.

    Audit Engagement Overview – Premium Dashboard

    This variant offers interactive filtering capabilities but requires a licensed version of Performance Analytics. It is currently being prepared for future deprecation and will not be available on new instances starting with version 18.1.5. Customers using it should plan to transition to the standard Audit Engagement Overview dashboard in the Next Experience UI Framework.

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard provides an executive view into audit results and engagement breakdowns by task, allowing areas of concern to be identified quickly.

    Audit Engagement Overview dashboard

    Important:
    Starting with version 18.1.5 of the Audit Management application, the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard is available in the Next Experience UI Framework.

    If you are on Vancouver or Washington DC, you can view the dashboard in the Next Experience UI Framework.

    To access the Audit Engagement Overview dashboard in the Next Experience UI Framework, navigate to All > Audit > Analytics Overview.

    Audit Engagement Overview dashboard in Next Experience UI framework.

    The following roles and tasks are associated with this solution:
    • Audit Manager (sn_audit.manager): To have clear visibility into the overall state and volume of vulnerabilities within the organization.
    • Audit Administrator (sn_audit.admin): To pinpoint areas of concern quickly.
    • Audit Analyst (sn_audit.user): To prioritize which risks or tasks to focus on based on criticality to the organization.
    Table 1. Reports
    Name Type Description
    Adequate Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with an adequate result.
    Audit Task Breakdown Horizontal bar Horizontal bar icon Total number of active audit tasks broken down by type, state, and assigned to
    Control Test Results DonutDonut icon The number of completed control tests, broken down by overall control effectiveness rating.
    Controls by Engagement Donut Donut icon Breakdown of the number of open controls by audit engagement
    Engagement Results Bar Bar icon Displays an overall count of audit engagements conducted for each entity. The chart is stacked to display the overall audit results for each entity.
    Inadequate Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with an inadequate result.
    Issue Breakdown Horizontal bar Horizontal bar icon Count of issues grouped by Engagement, State, or Response
    Overdue Audit Tasks List List icon3 List of open audit tasks that have exceeded the planned end date.
    Profiles by Engagement Donut Donut icon Select one or many entities to view and compare their audit findings.
    Satisfactory Engagements Single Score Single-score icon Displays the number of engagements closed with a satisfactory result.

    Audit Engagement Overview – Premium dashboard

    Important:
    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard with PA filters is now available as part of the Audit Management plugin.

    Starting with version 18.1.5, the Audit Engagement Overview – Premium dashboard is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be no longer available on new instances.

    As this dashboard uses interactive filtering, the licensed version of Performance Analytics is required.

    The Audit Engagement Overview dashboard has one view, with reports on engagement results and various drilldowns, with interactive filters.Audit Engagement Overview dashboard showing Engagement Results, Profiles, by Engagement, Controls by ENgagement, and interactive filters