Of course PwC are going to advocate licence audits...
...they act as a 3rd party auditor for several of the major vendors, especially Microsoft and VMware. This is just as much about generating revenue for them as it is for the vendors. That said, if you know your contracts, there is usually a way round it. Most vendors will have a statement in the audit clause of a contract about not unreasonably impacting on your business so, at a time like this, it's very easy to argue that an audit now would be an unreasonable impact; especially when most of the techs will be focusing on keeping the lights on during the pandemic. Here's a blog post about this very issue I wrote a couple of months back...
https://cortexconsulting.co.uk/blog/f/how-to-respond-to-a-vendor-audit---global-pandemic-version
The time to watch out is post-pandemic - lots of vendors have made free stuff available to help customers execute business continuity plans (Microsoft, Zoom, Citrix to name some of the more prominent ones) and they will be looking to collect on that when businesses are back up and running fully.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
