Companies need to create a help desk for data, similar to the help desk they created for hardware, software, application, network, and user problems.
Can you imagine if companies didn’t have a computer help desk and each department had figure out their own computer issues? If each department had to find, load, configure, and troubleshoot their own hardware and software?
But isn’t that how most companies operate when it comes to data and data projects?
Filed under Audit, Data Analytics, How to...
If you’re an IT auditor (or want to be one) and don’t have any audit certifications, which certification should you get, the CISA or the CIA? If you want to get both, which one do you get first?
Full disclosure: I have the CISA, but not the CIA. Back when the CIA was 4 exams, I studied for all the CIA exams except the financial exam, but ended up not taking any of the exams. I also have the CISSP.
Filed under Audit, Certification, Security, Technology
Trend Micro’s Dave Asprey has posted 10 reasons not to virtualize.
I generally disagree with all of them (as I’ll explain later), but I think he missed the REAL #1 reason not to virtualize…
Filed under Technology, Top 10
I haven’t been able to find any reviews of ACL Acerno, so I decided I better get to it.
According to ACL’s website, ACL Acerno is a Microsoft Excel Add-in that allows you to efficiently and easily investigate the results generated by ACL software or other sources and share your findings. For a quick overview, watch this video or check out the quick reference sheet (pdf)—-This info must have been removed when the software was updated.
Acerno is $250 per user.
Even if you don’t read the rest of this, if you’re an auditor, please take the poll at the end of this post.
Filed under ACL, Audit, Data Analytics, Excel, Poll, Written by Skyyler
I have heard enough about how security practices keep users from being productive. I constantly hear people complain about the evils of complex passwords (or any password on a smart phone), password expiration, encryption, web filters, lack of admin access on laptops, etc., and how they are such a drag on user productivity and the bottom line.
Filed under Security
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