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SOX Re-Engineering: Establishing and Testing Entity-Level Controlsnew01.gif (1016 bytes)
SOX Initiatives to Reduce the Overall Project Scope new01.gif (1016 bytes)
Five Decisions Which Must be Made  Regarding the SOX 404 Project Strategy (Part 1 of 2)
Sustaining SOX Compliance
Hidden Secrets: Reliance on a SAS 70 for SOX Testing
(Part 1 of 2)
Hidden Secrets: Reliance on a SAS 70 for SOX Testing (Part 2 of 2)
Assessing the Adequacy of IT General Controls SOX Testing 
(Part 1 of 2)
Assessing the Adequacy of IT General Controls SOX Testing 
(Part 2 of 2)
How IT Audits are Different from the SOX IT General Controls Project

Evaluating Data Interfaces

SOX 404 Year II: Lessons Learned, Initiatives to Pursue and Interpretation of Guidance Provided by the SEC & PCAOB
(Part 1 of 2)
SOX 404 Year II: Lessons Learned, Initiatives to Pursue and Interpretation of Guidance Provided by the SEC & PCAOB (Part 2 of 2)
Pre-Implementation Reviews of Sarbanes-Oxley Impacted Systems 
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Finalizing the IT General Controls Portion of the Review (1 of 2)

Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Finalizing the IT General Controls Portion of the Review (2 of 2)
Project Scope for Sarbanes-Oxley Implementation
Establishing Processes to Comply with Section 409 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Auditing Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance


PCI
Understanding the Differences and Similarities Between the PCI and SOX Projects

Infrastructure
Performing an Audit of a SaaS Deployed Application (Part 1 of 2)
Performing an Audit of a SaaS Deployed Application (Part 2 of 2)
Database Security: Controlling Service Accounts
Performing a Data Warehouse Audit
Alternative Project Initiatives for Controlling the UAT Environment (Part 1 of 2)
Alternative Project Initiatives for Controlling the UAT Environment (Part 2 of 2)

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General Audit Articles
The Realities of Trying to Control System Support Personnel
Continuous Audit Monitoring for IT Impacted Areas (Part 1 of 2)
Controlling Vendor Access
Auditing External Data Interfaces

The Control Impact of Data Center Consolidations
System Software Product Implementation Review Methodology
The Auditor's Role In A Data Center Outsourcing Contract
Using Software Management Products as a Checkpoint to Enforce SDLC
Is All Data Input Being Properly Controlled?
Security Restructuring Using the Entitlement Matrix Approach
Analyzing the deliverables produced in the SDLC
Assessing the Adequacy of a QA Test Environment
Performing an Audit of an Automated Software Change Management System
Performing an Audit of an Incident Management System

Outsourcing
Insider Tips on Conducting an Audit of an Outsourced Entity

IT Cost Management

Integrating IT Cost Management Controls into Regularly Scheduled Audits
Performing an IT Cost Management Review
(Part 1 of 3)
Performing an IT Cost Management Review (Part 2 of 3)
Performing an IT Cost Management Review (Part 3 of 3)

Disaster Recovery
Continuity of Business in an MVS Environment
Corporate Preparations for a Pandemic

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Client/Server Articles
Performing an Audit of a PVCS Implementation

Security Assessments
Audit Serve Security Evaluation Criteria (ASSEC)
Security Evaluation of the MVS Operating System Using RACF
Security Evaluation of the OpenVMS Operating System
Performing an Audit of Security Entitlements

IBM OS/390Articles
Software Management Control Requirements
IBM MVS System SDLC Control Approaches
Session Manager Control Offerings and Potential Exposures
Auditors Misconception of the Exposures Related to PPT Entries
Using JESEXIT6 to Prevent Prod Programs From Being Retrieved From Non-Prod Load Libraries
Preventing Top Secret Users From Submitting Jobs That Run Under The Authority of Batch ACIDS
Tape Management Security within an MVS Environment
Control Requirements when running MVS as a Guest Operating System under VM
Control available within CA-7
Access Requirements for Sensitive Operation Functions within an MVS Environment
Understanding the MVS IPL Process
Restricting MVS and JES Commands
The Control Impact of the JES2 Concatenation

Open VMS Articles
Change Management Approaches Used in the VAX/VMS Environment

IBM VSE Articles
What Security is Available for IBM VSE?
CICS/VSE Security Within a VSE/ESA Environment

Tandem Guardian 90 Articles
What Security is Available for Tandem Guardian 90?
On-line Security in a Tandem Guardian 90 Environment

IBM AS/400 Articles
AS/400 Change Management Approaches
Security Approaches Used in the AS/400 Environment

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