IIA's IT Audit Research Symposium

08.00 to 17.00 hour, Sunday, 8 July 2007 Amsterdam

The IIA Research Foundation and The IIA’s Advanced Technology Committee will host the 2nd IT Audit Research Symposium on July 8 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in conjunction with IIA’s International Conference. The purpose of the symposium is to discuss potential solutions for significant IT audit issues, which will help The IIA promote emerging IT audit research projects. The symposium will serve as a springboard for future IIA technology initiatives. Topics to be discussed in this symposium are:

• Why Do IT Projects Fail?
• What controls and related metrics should be in place to monitor each of the failure reasons?
• Why is IT so expensive? 
• IT Security-  ensuring computer security by examining how IT users can best be involved in and encouraged to follow good  IT security procedures.
• Continuous auditing
• Continuous Privacy Monitoring
• Using IT Maturity Concept for Evaluating Internal Control Effectiveness of Outsourcing and Co-sourcing Business Processes  

The IIA welcomes all scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners from around the world to join us at Amsterdam. As seating is limited, pre-registration is required. To register for this one day symposium, please send an e-mail to research@theiia.org or call +1-407-937-1356.