As IT environments become more complex, enterprises rely on them more than ever before, said Michael Juergens, principle at Deliotte & Touche, speaking at the ISACA CACS audit and compliance conference. Top challenges include cloud computing, virtualization, and a company’s own employees. There may be a greater or lesser risk depending on your industry, technology, business processes, and other factors,” he added. He said that auditors should make a careful risk assessment at any enterprise that uses external cloud computing solutions. Juergens added that virtualization, often a key component of private clouds, carries the same risks as public clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During this economic downturn, many companies will face disgruntled employees and will need to be able to control their access.<\/p>\n
“Specific attention items should be: timely removal of access, periphery security, internal security architecture, physical security and badge location, help desk procedures, workstation security and IDS management,” Juergens said.<\/p>\n
Many help desks and incident response teams will be understaffed, and Juergens advised that now is a good time to re-examine security procedures.<\/p>\n
Enterprise search tools are more powerful than before, but auditors must “review data classification schema, access management, index design and maintenance, and user training,” said Juergens.<\/p>\n
IT organizations must have contingency plans in place in case a partner fails and must be able to monitor the status of the entire supply chain, including that part of it that is outside the company.<\/p>\n
For those organizations pursuing green IT initiatives, auditors must monitor their effectiveness and their compliance with local and federal law.<\/p>\n
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