Assuring IT Legal Compliance (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Auditors: The individuals performing an examination of an auditable unit.
• Clients: The personnel and related business practices being examined by the auditor.
• Employees: Persons who are hired to provide services to an entity on a regular basis in exchange for compensation and who do not provide these services as part of an independent organizational formation.
• Managers: Those responsible for the organization and coordination of the entity's activities in accordance with adopted policies as well as the achievement of defined objectives.
• Stakeholders: Individuals or organizational formations that have a direct or indirect interest in an entity because they can affect or be affected by the entity's actions, objectives, and policies.

Quotes edit see section history

• “Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled to demonstrate compliance with legal mandates through documented assurance assessments.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Japan
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America

Organizations edit see section history

• Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSTC or COSO): "COSO’s mission is to provide thought leadership through the development of comprehensive frameworks and guidance on enterprise risk management, internal control and fraud deterrence designed to improve organizational performance and governance and to reduce the extent of fraud in organizations."
• Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA): "As a nonprofit, global membership association for IT and information systems professionals, ISACA is committed to providing its diverse constituency of more than 95,000 worldwide with the tools they need to achieve individual and organizational success."
• Information Technology Governance Institute (ITGI): "The IT Governance Institute (ITGI) exists to assist enterprise leaders in their responsibility to ensure that IT is aligned with the business and delivers value, its performance is measured, its resources properly allocated and its risks mitigated."
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO): "The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, that works to develop technical standards for products and services sold around the world."
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): "Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world."
• The Institute of Internal Auditors (The IIA): "The mission of The Institute of Internal Auditors is to provide dynamic leadership for the global profession of internal auditing."

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Control Measure: a course of action to accomplish a control goal or objective.
• IS Standards, Guidelines, and Procedures for Auditing and Control Professionals: the ISACA generated standards, guidance, and practices governing the practice of information systems auditing and control practices.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Governance Convergence: is the conceptualization of overlapping areas within the organizational formation environment that should be considered for providing an effective internal control structure.
• IT Legal Compliance Alignment: is the arrangement of programs, systems, processes and activities to assure as well as ensure that an entity follows relevant laws and regulations.
• Managing IT Compliance: is the utilization of available frameworks, methods, tools and techniques to address entity-centric laws and regulations.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Assuring IT Governance (Assurance Services).

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Robert E. Davis (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Business & Investing › Business Life › Ethics
• Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › MIS
• Books › Law › Business › Regulation
• Books › Professional & Technical › Accounting & Finance › Accounting
• Books › Professional & Technical › Law › Business › Property
• Books › Professional & Technical › Law › Ethics & Professional Responsibility
• Books › Professional & Technical › Law › Intellectual Property

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Docstoc: Animated PowerPoint slides (with notes) enabling the training of a selected audience regarding the protection of information assets.
• Examiner.com Philadelphia: Digital Rights Management software
• Examiner.com Philadelphia: Safeguarding information assets
• ISACA survey: Regulatory compliance is top concern in 2011: Press release

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