Information Technology Audits (2007)

(NOTE: THE 2008 EDITION WILL BE AVAILABLE IN MID-JULY 2008. PLEASE SEE ISBN 9780808091844). This up-to-the-minute guide helps you become more proactive and meet the growing demand for integrated audit services in the 21st century. Wide-ranging in scope, Information Technology Audits offers expert analysis, practical tools, and real-world techniques designed to assist in preparing for and performing integrated IT audits. Written by a seasoned auditor with more than 22 years of IT audit experience, Information Technology Audits provides the first practical, hands-on look at how organizations use and control information to meet business objectives, and offers strategies to assess whether the company's controls adequately protect its information systems. Practice aids are available on a free companion CD-ROM. - IT Auditing: Current and Future Views - IT Risk Assessment - Standards and Pronouncements: Internal and IT Audit - Standards and Pronouncements: External Audit - Setting Objectives and Developing an Audit Approach - Infrastructure Controls - Infrastructure Controls: Security - Infrastructure Controls: Communications - Business Process Controls - System Development - Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery - Usinf Software to Audit - Web Enablement - Privacy, Confidentiality, Fraud and Other Growing Concerns: Legal and Regulatory Issues - Certification Competency Demonstration