Your management says it wants more analytics, but does it really support analytics? Here’s 10+ signs that indicate that your mgmt:
Filed under Audit, Data Analytics, How to..., Technology, Top 10, Written by Skyyler
Here’s a list of all my posts to-date related to becoming or growing as an IT Auditor, all in one place for easy reference.
I’ll add other posts as they are written.
Filed under Audit, Employment, How to..., Security, Technology
When internal auditors (or those pretending to be such) do poor work and don’t follow the appropriate audit and IT standards, they are unprofessional. However, I put the blame at the feed of audit management.
Filed under Audit, Employment
It’s 10 o’clock in the cloud. Do you know where all your user IDs are? Are some hidden in the cloud?
Cloud security if often cloudy because it’s not on premise where you can control it easier.
That means you may have powerful user IDs in the cloud that your security team knows nothing about, which means….
Filed under Audit, Case Files, Technology
It finally happened: I fell prey to a phishing email.
I actually clicked a link.
At work, no less. Not good.
Filed under Audit, Employment, Humor/Irony
Since some of you are newer to the blog, I thought I’d bring a couple of my favorite posts to your attention.
Most of the team deployed to the 2 departments and started emptying wastebaskets in the ‘wastebasket audit‘ exercise, collecting all the trash in large carts on wheels.
Two others were posted as look-outs in the main hallways outside the target department.
I carried my black bag of tools and approached THE door.
I pulled out my favorite flat-head screwdriver. Originally, I was going to remove the closing arm at the top of the door and then pry the hinge pins out of the hinges.
This is the fifth and final post in a series. See the previous post, Behind Locked Doors: Part 4. Start with Behind Locked Doors: Part 1.
Filed under Audit, Case Files, Security, Technology
