Requirements for Development of an Assessment System for IT&C Security Audit

Authors

  • Marius Popa Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Keywords:

assessment system, security audit, information security management

Abstract

IT&C security audit processes are carried out to implement information security management. The audit processes are included in an audit program as decision of the management staff to establish the organization situation against to the planned or expected one. The audit processes require evidence to highlight the above issues. The evidences are gathered by audit team and some automation processes to increase the productivity and accuracy of the audit are needed. The paper presents some issues of the requirements for development of an assessment system with some considerations for IT&C security audit. The emphasized issues are grouped in the following sections: IT&C security audit processes, characteristics of the indicators development process and implementation issues of an assessment system.

Author Biography

Marius Popa, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics

Department of IT&C Technologies

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Published

2010-12-30

How to Cite

Popa, M. (2010). Requirements for Development of an Assessment System for IT&C Security Audit. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 2(2), 56-64. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/21