Auditing Information Systems: A Comprehensive Reference Guide

With the increased use of client-server networks in industry, the need for auditors who can perform information system audits is more important than ever before. Traditional auditors have been thrust into a systems environment where they have had to audit complex computer systems, and may have performed the very basic traditional financial auditing techniques but many critical controls are often overlooked. This text provides traditional auditors as well as new information systems auditors with the practical information they need to complete an information systems audit satisfactorily. Following the format of an IS audit program, it shows how to examine a company's hardware, software and data organization and processing methods to ensure quality control and security.

Table of Contents:
CORE CONCEPTS; Basics of Computing Systems; Identifying Computer Systems; STANDARD INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDIT APPROACH; Information Systems Audit Program; Information Systems Security Policies, Standards, and/or Guidelines; Auditing Service Organization Applications; Assessing the Financial Stability of Vendor Organizations, Examining Vendor Organization Contracts, and Examining Accounting Treatment of Computer Equipment and Software; Physical Security; Logical Security; Information Systems Operations; CONTEMPORARY INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUDITING CONCEPTS; Control Self-Assessment and an Application in an Information Systems Environment; Encryption and Cryptography; Year 2000 Problem; Other Contemporary Information Systems Auditing Challenges; Humanistic Aspects of Information Systems Auditing; Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Selected References; Index.

About the Author :
JACK J. CHAMPLAIN, CPA, CISA, CIA, CFSA, is the Senior Information Systems Auditor with the Boeing Employees' Credit Union. He has worked in the banking industry for eighteen years, spending over half of them with Security Pacific and First Interstate Banks prior to joining BECU. Mr. Champlain has over ten years of internal auditing experience, including seven years of IS auditing. Mr. Champlain served two terms as President of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. He previously served as Vice President and Programs Director of the same organization. He is also an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the AICPA, the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the Association of Credit Union Internal Auditors. Mr. Champlain was recently appointed Chairman of the Emerging Technologies Committee of the ACUIA. Mr. Champlain is a contributor to numerous publications and a frequent speaker in the area of information systems auditing. He holds a BA in finance from the University of Washington and an MBA from Seattle University.