Audit Serve, Inc.

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Audit Serve Seminars

Hidden Secrets From IT Auditors
One Day Seminar

The seminar for experienced IT audit professionals

Seminar Objective

 After being on the audit side for the first half of his career 24 year career, the instructor has spent most of the last 12 years consulting full-time with systems development groups and data centers, uncovering many control issues which were in many instances unknown to the most experienced auditors.  The instructor has devised unique methods for performing compliance testing which disclose major gaps in an organization’s control design.

Seminar Outline

 The following topics, system practices and schemes will be discussed:

 ·         Bypassing controls over production access

o        Does anyone really know what production is?

o        Direct changes to data

o        Production fetching non-production components

o        Using controlled processes to gain access

 ·         Ineffective Security Design

o        Inadequate security designs

o        Flaws in decentralized security administration

o        Application design issues which cause database management issues

o        Is the firewall preventing unauthorized access?

 ·         Ineffective IT Budgeting & Expense Tracking

 ·         Performing an implementation integrity review of software management systems

 ·         Assessing the adequacy user acceptance testing

o        Evaluating the Test Environments

o        Evaluating Test Scripts

o        Auditing Test Plans

o        Auditing Test Results

 and a few other tricks of the trade…

 For each of the above topics, the following will be discussed where appropriate:

• What it is and reasons for its occurrence

• Examples of how it is set-up

• Steps to determine whether it is used within your organization

• Establishment of preventive controls

• Alternative compliance test techniques

Seminar Length
One day  
 

Who Should Attend
This seminar is designed for senior IT auditors.   
 

Cancellation Policy
 Refer to local ISACA Chapter published Policy

Continuing Professional Education Credits

Instructor Biography

Mitchell H. Levine, CISA

Mitchell H. Levine is the founder of Audit Serve, Inc. which is an IT Audit and Systems consulting company. For the last 18 years at Audit Serve, Mr. Levine's time has been split between traditional IS Audit Consulting projects, PCI Implementations and SOX Implementation/Testing Projects.

Mr. Levine and Audit Serve were the industry leaders in Y2K Audit & Systems training.
During the period of 1996 - 1999 Mr. Levine conducted 34 two-day Y2K training courses. In the past nine years, Mr. Levine has conducted seminars for Hartford, New York, New Jersey, National Capital Area, Minneapolis and Chicago local ISACA chapters. Mr. Levine also was the primary writer and editor of the Audit Vision Magazine which was published from 1991 - 1998. The magazine was transformed into the Audit Vision E-mail newsletter which is published monthly.

Prior to establishing Audit Serve, Inc. in 1990, Mr. Levine was an IT Audit Manager at Citicorp where his duties included managing a team of IS Auditors which were responsible for auditing 25+ service bureaus and the corporate financial systems.  

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