COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course follows on from Auditing IT Systems - Part 1, with which it can be combined to form a three day programme. It will cover in more detail the areas of cybercrime, computer forensics and data analytics.
Delegates will be introduced to the concepts of data analytics and how they can be used to identify anomalies in the data. The leader of this course is both an investigator and a computer forensics specialist who has acted as an expert witness in a number of high profile cases.
COURSE CONTENT
Cybercrime
- Types of cybercrime
- Use of computers in cybercrime
- Cyber terrorism - your organisation may well be a target
Protecting your Organisation
- Threat analysis
- Threat management
- Prevention mechanisms
- Detection action
Computer Forensics
- The rules
- The initial steps
- What needs to be examined?
- Record keeping
- Tools and techniques
- Evaluation
Making the Case
- What is ''evidence''?
- What is ''proof''?
- Lining up your argument
- Dealing with the legal representatives
- The opposition
Data Analytics
- Selecting records that conform to particular criteria
- Extracting selected records for detailed examination
- Obtaining totals and subtotals from a file
- Reporting on file contents by value bands (''stratification'')
- Searching for duplicate transactions
- Searching for gaps in sequences
Comparing the contents of two (or sometimes more) files, and extracting either record matches (where none should match) or exceptions (where all should match)
- Sampling
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Financial auditors wishing to obtain knowledge of computer auditing. IT staff who are moving into auditing and who require a framework within which to operate.
This course is designed to be run either as an in-house course or as a training pool title only. For more information on how the training pool works please click on the Quorum Training Pool item in the menu on the left of this page.
To enquire about this course please complete the enquiry form or call our in-house course bookings team on 0207 566 8207.