Information Technology Audits (2007)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 988 pages
• Published by: CCH, Inc.; 2007 edition June 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0808090992
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0808090991
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.3 pounds

Product Description
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

About The Author
Xenia Ley Parker, CIA, CISA, CFSA, is an IT auditor with over 22 years of experience. Principal of her own firm since April 2000, Xenia joined Marsh, Inc., as Vice-President, Compliance Enterprise Technology Group, in 2004. In 2006 she assumed the position of Senior Audit Director, MMC, with global IT audit responsibility. With Coopers & Lybrand LLP for 14 years and Ernst & Young for three years, she served clients in telecommunications, financial services, retail, manufacturing and nonprofit organizations. Xenia has developed and implemented audit methodologies, risk assessment tools, seminars, policies and procedures, and collateral material for internal and external auditors. With CBS Inc. for six years, she was Associate Director--Production of the UNIX-based data center for CBS/AT&T Venture One, one of the earliest online services tests, which evolved into today's Prodigy. Xenia developed the IT content in the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) study, Internal Control--Integrated Framework, has written numerous Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) monographs, and is author of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO) U.S. Department of Commerce reports--Information Security Governance: What Directors Need to Know and Building, Managing and Auditing Information Security, the e-Risk Primer, and the Handbook of IT Auditing, 1st through 3rd editions. A frequent presenter at major conferences, Xenia was adjunct Assistant Professor of Information Systems at New York University for four years. Member of the IIA and ISACA, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA), she is on the IIA's International Professional Conferences Committee (formerly on Advanced Technology), and the Board of Governors, IIA New York chapter. Xenia received the International IIA 1993 Auditing and Technology Award and New York chapter Lifetime Achievement Awar