IT Audit, Control, and Security


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When it comes to computer security, the role of auditors today has never been more crucial. Auditors must ensure that all computers, in particular those dealing with e-business, are secure. The only source for information on the combined areas of computer audit, control, and security, the IT Audit, Control, and Security describes the types of internal controls, security, and integrity procedures that management must build into its automated systems. This very timely book provides auditors with the guidance they need to ensure that their systems are secure from both internal and external threats.




Cyber Security and Privacy Control


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This section discusses IT audit cybersecurity and privacy control activities from two focus areas. First is focus on some of the many cybersecurity and privacy concerns that auditors should consider in their reviews of IT-based systems and processes. Second focus area includes IT Audit internal procedures. IT audit functions sometimes fail to implement appropriate security and privacy protection controls over their own IT audit processes, such as audit evidence materials, IT audit workpapers, auditor laptop computer resources, and many others. Although every audit department is different, this section suggests best practices for an IT audit function and concludes with a discussion on the payment card industry data security standard data security standards (PCI-DSS), a guideline that has been developed by major credit card companies to help enterprises that process card payments prevent credit card fraud and to provide some protection from various credit security vulnerabilities and threats. IT auditors should understand the high-level key elements of this standard and incorporate it in their review where appropriate.




NBS Special Publication


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A Software Scheme for Managing Magnetic Tape Storage Space


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This report analyses a problem which has been facing the DRCS central computing facility for a number of years: the continual growth in demand for magnetic tape storage within the computer room. It summaries the various techniques which have been proposed and implemented to reduce the rate of growth and finally describes in detail a software scheme which has alleviated the problem. The basis of the scheme is to categories all tapes as either active or inactive, permitting the latter category to be stored outside the computer room. (Author).




krishna's Operating System


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Database Journal


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Advances in the Use of Computers for Handling Human Factors Task Data


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The purpose of the paper is to review some of the data problems the analyst must deal with in his work and to suggest some possible remedies. A review of the task analysis procedures is followed by a discussion of the uses of task analysis in system development programs. Problems connected with each were used to generate the goals of a research program, which is directed toward the development of computerized techniques to assist the analyst make better use of available data.




The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems


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The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems provides clear, concise, up to the minute and highly informative definitions and explanations covering the whole of the fast changing field of management information systems.




Office Organisation And Management


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This book has been thoroughly revised in view of the changes in the syllabi of various universities and Professional institutes in the country and abroad. Many new features have been added, including a separate chapter on ‘Security’. The present study deals with various facets of management and organization in the light of growing need for information in business organizations. Besides throwing light on the basic principles and functions of management, it further highlights the managerial functions of planning, communication and control in the light of their applicability in the area of office management. The salient feature of book is that, while discussing the subject-matter, author has tried to provide the latest information about different types of office machines and equipments which are usable in business organizations and are easily available in the country. A Section on personnel management has also been given for those professional managers who take management as human relations. This book will serve as a textbook for degree, post degree. Institute of Company Secretaries and I.C.W.A. The text will also be a useful source of information for office managers.