These learning resources are designed to help you - whether working in a business or firm - establish and maintain proficiency in the areas of information and data management and analysis; IT risk and assurance services, including service organization controls (SOC) reporting; and information security and privacy, including the growing issue of cybersecurity.
Learn to navigate this emerging area and create a niche practice to help your clients understand the benefits of SOC engagements.
This article discusses the benefits and risks of cloud-based accounting.
This article discusses a five–pronged approach CPAs can employ in the battle against cybercriminals.
This article discusses how internal audit can help manage technology risks.
This archived webcast discusses cybersecurity hot topics.
This article includes the “Pareto Principal” top 20 checklist of what firms can do to protect themselves from most cyber threats.
Technology provides opportunity to test full data sets rather than just samples.
This article suggests ways for organizations with limited IT budgets to keep their data secure.
This article explores a COSO report which discusses how the 2013 internal control framework can help organisations evaluate and manage cyber-risks.
This paper explains the value of predictive analytics and explain why CPAs are well positioned to be crucial participants in its adoption.
This article shows the steps organizations can follow to understand their organization’s IT system and its controls, and assess the effectiveness of those controls.
This white paper focuses on the system description in a SOC 1 SM report.