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The IT audit and information assurance careers guide — what IT audit is, who does it, how to get in, and how to progress. Freshly updated from 2004 to 2024.

The challenge of IT Project AssuranceProject assurance can be a challenge; change programmes are notoriously complicated with many dependent parts contributing to an overall goal. Project managers often have a different view of success to their sponsors. Processes, governance, co

Information risk and security is an infinite field of work and study. You can spend your whole life trying to gain the width or depth of knowledge necessary to do the job competently, and every day feel you know a little less than the day before.At the same time, it’s one of the

The focus of CISSP is purely Information Security. Having said that, its a very big field. CISSP’s reputation as a certification is for being ‘a mile wide and an inch deep’. In fact it’s so wide that rather like the Great Wall of China, you can probably see it from space.That, an

The Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM) qualification is provided by ISACA, and roughly on a par with it’s CISA IT audit qualification.It is a certification for IT security managers, and like CISA tries to strike a balance between technical IT knowledge and business unde

CISA is possibly the one ‘pure’ Information systems audit qualification that is recognised anywhere. It is balanced between technical IT knowledge and business understanding.There are other IT audit certifications – from the IIA’s aborted QiCA to supporting CPA type accounti