On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, David Fetter<david@fetter.org> wrote:
>
> >> Auditors can be a funny breed.
> >
> > They can, at that, but in this case, they're simply doing the
> > normal human thing of trying to figure out whether there's a way
> > they can push off their work to someone or something else. In
> > this case, they can't.
>
> Depends what they've been hired to audit exactly - there's a
> difference in the way they will attack the IT aspects of a financial
> audit versus an IT management audit for example. In my experience,
> the former is worse because they are often done by finance people
> who will simply box-tick 'verified backups' before reporting to the
> board or regulator, unlike an IT auditor who will look at the
> systems as a whole and judge the processes based on their technical
> merit.
Right :)
> Anyway - this is pre-beer conference talk...
Excellent idea :)
Cheers,
David.
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