Information Technology Control and Audit

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CRC Press, 2016 M04 19 - 776 pages
The new edition of a bestseller, Information Technology Control and Audit, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of IT governance, controls, auditing applications, systems development, and operations. Aligned to and supporting the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), it examines emerging trend
 

Contents

Why Are Controls and Audit Important?
3
Chapter 2 The Legal Environment and Its Impact on Information Technology
21
Their Role in Information Technology
49
Chapter 4 Audit Process in an Information Technology Environment
77
Chapter 5 Auditing IT Using ComputerAssisted Audit Tools and Techniques
103
Chapter 6 Managing IT Audit
133
Chapter 7 IT Auditing in the New Millennium
159
Chapter 8 IT Governance
187
Chapter 9 Strategy and Standards
207
Chapter 10 Risk Management
225
Chapter 11 Process and Quality Management
251
Chapter 12 Financial Management
273
Chapter 13 IT Project Management
301
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Frederick Gallegos, MBA, has expertise in IT Audit Education, IS Auditing, Security, and Control of Information Systems; Legal Environment of Information Systems; Local Area and Wide Area Network Security and Controls; Computer Ethics, Management Information Systems, Executive Support Systems, Internet as an Audit Resource. He has more than 35 years of teaching and practical experience in the field, published four books, and authored and coauthored more than 200 articles in the aforementioned subjects. He received his BS and MBA from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California. He has a California Community College Instructor Credential. He taught for the Computer Information Systems Department, College of Business at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, from 1976 to 1996 (part-time) and full-time from 1996 to 2006. After 30 years of teaching, he retired in September 2006 and received the lecturer emeritus status from the university in May 2007. In February 2008, he received the Computer Information Systems (CIS) Lifetime Achievement Award from the CIS Department at Cal Poly, Pomona, California. He continues to maintain contact and provides consulting services with his past undergraduate and graduate students and alumni of the CIS Department's Information Assurance programs from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California.

Before teaching full-time at Cal Poly (1996-2006), Gallegos worked for GAO-Los Angeles Regional Office (1972-1996) and advanced within GAO to serve as manager, Management and Evaluator Support Group. He managed staff involved in Office Automation, Computer Audit Support, Computer Audit, Training, Human Resource Planning and Staffing, Technical Information Retrieval and Security/Facilities Management. He retired from GAO in 1996 with 26 years of federal and military service. He is a recipient of several service awards from GAO, EDP Audit, Control, and Securi

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