ch-17 control and governance of information system

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    Control and governance of

    information systems

    By Sheetal Thomas

    Dean, GIMT

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    Need for control of information

    system High cost of loss of data and wrong

    decision making

    Possibility of computer abuse Risk of computer errors

    Protection of hardware, software, and

    personnel Data privacy and confidentiality

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    Objectives of CIS

    Safeguarding of assets

    Maintenance of data integrity

    Effectiveness in achieving organizationalobjectives

    Efficient consumption of resources

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    Information technology governance

    IT infrastructure library

    Service delivery

    Service support Planning to implement service management

    Security management

    Infrastructure management

    Business perspective

    Applications management

    Software assets management

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    Control objectives for information

    and related technology Planning and organization

    Acquisition and implementation

    Delivery and support Monitoring

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    Management control of information

    system Top management controls

    Planning

    Organizing Leading

    Monitoring

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    Systems development

    management control Feasibility study and project initiation

    System analysis and specifying userrequirements

    System design and development Acceptance testing

    Implementation and maintenance

    Auditing the systems development management

    function Concurrent audit

    Post implementation audit

    General audit

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    Programming Management

    Controls Planning

    Control

    Design Coding

    Testing

    Operation and maintenance

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    Controls

    Data resource management controls

    Security management controls

    Exposure analysis

    Operations management controls

    Control of computer and network operations

    Maintaining data files, programme files, and

    documentation Help desk and technical support

    Management of outsourced operations

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    Quality assurance management

    controls Capability maturity model

    The initial level

    The repeatable level The defined level

    The managed level

    The optimizing level

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    Application control of information

    systems Boundary controls

    Access controls

    Cryptographic controls

    Audit trail controls Existence controls

    Input controls Design of source documents and data entry screens

    Data code controls Batch controls

    Validation of data input

    Audit trail controls

    Existence controls

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    Communication controls

    Transmission impairment

    Component failure

    Subversive threats Audit trail controls

    Existence controls

    Processing controls

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    Database controls

    Access controls

    Integrity controls

    Application software controls

    Concurrency controls

    Cryptographic controls

    File handling controls

    Audit trail controls

    Existence controls

    Roll forward

    Roll back

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    Output controls

    Inference controls

    Batch report design controls

    Output production and distribution controls Audit trail controls

    Existence controls

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    Information system Audit

    Inf. System audit procedures

    Use of computers in information systems audit

    Business continuity and disaster recovery Business continuity management

    Availability

    Reliability

    Recoverability

    Business continuity planning

    Disaster recovery planning

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    Categorizing the functions

    Critical functions

    Vital functions

    Sensitive functions Non-critical functions

    Components of a disaster recovery plan

    Emergency plan Backup plan

    Recovery plan

    Test plan

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    Testing a disaster recovery plan

    Paper test

    Preparedness test

    Post test