nauditavast

Nauditavast is a term used in theoretical discussions of auditing and governance to describe a property of systems in which complete, exhaustive auditing is impractical or impossible due to scale, speed, and complexity. The word combines not auditable with vast, signaling that some domains inherently resist full verification.

The term emerged in the early 2020s in online forums and academic seminars as a descriptive label for challenges in auditing big data, cloud services, and real-time networks. It is typically invoked to frame the limits of traditional audit approaches in modern, highly distributed environments.

It is applied to contexts such as cloud-native architectures, streaming analytics, internet of things, and high-frequency financial markets where data volumes and velocity outstrip auditing resources. Proponents use the concept to justify risk-based auditing and scalable assurance methods rather than attempting full audit coverage.

Relation to other concepts: Nauditavast is connected to auditability, assurance, continuous auditing, and sampling. Debates center on whether technology can overcome nauditavast through automated checks, anomaly detection, and probabilistic auditing, or whether fundamental limits remain that require new governance frameworks and risk management approaches.

See also: Auditability, Continuous auditing, Data governance, Risk management.