IT audits are useless

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December 8, 2009 from InfoWorld – “…The problem is that the auditors themselves know so little about IT, so they often ask for something that’s either useless or outright ridiculous, even as audits grow in importance. Now, the government is talking about creating more audits for Wall Street, but will extra work really do the trick?…”

180 View – I have been on both sides of the audit fence. Before becoming a CA, I headed up a large IT department and had auditors ask me ridiculous questions too. Later I did some IT auditing with one of the major audit firms and thought our firm at least asked better questions. One continuing problem is that technical people are often scornful of non-technical people who ask technical questions.

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