Information technology is of ever increasing importance to organisations, customers
and stakeholders. IT is now an everyday part of all our lives from maintaining
essential data to undertaking transactions on-line to communicating instantly
with other users throughout the world.
Unless IT is properly managed, however, then there is the potential for:
- scarce resources to be wasted;
- an organisation’s image and services to be adversely affected; and
- legal action, fines and indeed imprisonment to be incurred due to non-compliance
with legislation.
It is essential, therefore, that adequate and robust controls are established
by management and that these are regularly reviewed and tested to check that
they adequately protect the organisation.
To aid this process, CIPFA first published in 1978 Computer Audit Guidelines.
These have been regularly updated and the current sixth edition was published
in 2002.
Now CIPFA is publishing Series 4 of its very successful systems based auditing
control matrices which addresses computer auditing specifically and comprehensively.
These all new matrices address:
Management and financial controls
File controls
PC controls
Network controls
Internet controls
E-commerce controls
Environmental controls
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Data protection
Project management controls
Application controls
Change control
Post-implementation review
IS/IT strategy
Procurement of IT facilities
The matrices are intended to complement the computer audit guidelines and have
been written with reference to BS7799 (ISO17799). The 15 control matrices provide
details of tests to be carried out and are intended to be used in both the public
and private sectors by:
- audit management;
- auditors lacking practical experience; and
- experienced IT auditors and IT security specialists.
Systems Based Auditing - Control Matrices for IT are available as a combined
pack, comprising loose-leaf sheets in a robust binder plus CD-ROM.
They cost £575.00 (+VAT) = £675.63 for new
purchasers, and £475.00 (+VAT) = £558.13 for existing
purchasers of Series 1, 2 or 3
The CD-ROM comes with a licence for the purchaser to network throughout the
acquiring organisation, and carries the material in pdf and Word formats which
has conveniently embedded hyperlinks to allow users to navigate easily. View the contents: Word
(10kb) | PDF
(16kb)
View the introduction: Word
(14kb) | PDF
(23kb)
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