Compliance through Automation: Continuous Monitoring – Part VII
Continuous monitoring allows management to have greater insight into the entity’s current state of compliance. Typically, for IT, continuous monitoring involves ongoing automated testing of selected...
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Since management is responsible for the entity’s controls, they should have the means to determine, on an ongoing basis, whether selected controls are operating as designed. Continuous monitoring...
View ArticleRight-sizing IT Controls – Part VII
An entity’s controlling and monitoring activities should reflect management’s strategy for ensuring an adequate IT control system. Consequently, IT policies, directives, standards, procedures, and...
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Deploying key IT governance practices enhance an entity’s ability to meet control objectives for cost, functionality, and quality. Yet, regardless of the IT control techniques and automated tools...
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Wikipedia: An assessment from a user’s perspective – Part I
There has been a fair amount of discussion over the last few years regarding Wikipedia. As an educator as well as a professional writer my curiosity peaked on August 21, 2012. So in order to address...
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Following the framework outlined in IT Auditing: An Adaptive System, a critical aspect of an IT assessment is the identification of related risks. Though Wikipedia Project Administrators commonly...
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As conveyed by TechTarget.com, “Identity management (ID management) is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system (such as a country, a network, or an enterprise)...
View ArticleWikipedia: An assessment from a user’s perspective – Part IV
Wikipedia is often been presented as a great research resource; however it is also a public forum, where any authorized user can make a declaration or an assertion. “If you find an article that...
View ArticleWikipedia: An assessment from a user’s perspective – Part V
To provide an appropriate answer to this foundational question regarding Wikipedia an assessor must take into consideration the primary traits of reliability. Therefore, as previously stated in...
View ArticleWikipedia: An assessment from a user’s perspective – Part VI
Based on my careful analysis of the factors associated with information reliability, there is a medium-to-high inherent risk of a researcher conveying unreliable information through citing Wikipedia...
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