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Audience: If you are an financial statement auditor or an IT auditor, or you are and internal auditor and your company is involved in SAS 70, Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO 9001-2000, the Capability Maturity Model or other international standards for System Development and system maintenance, these seminars are for you. At the completion of the course series, you will have gained the requisite knowledge needed to execute the engagement involving manual and automated processes. You will also learn about various tools and techniques that will enable you to perform internal and external audit engagements under most nationally and internationally accepted auditing standards.

AUDIT PLANNING, EXEUTION & REPORTING TRACK:
Overview: An integral part of performing an audit engagement is to first gain an understanding of the project scope and then plan the engagement in accordance with the applicable standards. This course track is design to get you up and running within a compressed timeframe. At the completion of this course track, you will have learned how to assess the scope of the engagement, conduct risk analysis and assessment, and how to design an audit plan that fits the specific business model.

Topics Covered include:
• Documenting manual and IT processes
• Documenting manual and IT process controls
• Evaluating IT and manual controls placed in operations
• Defining relevant controls
• Reporting on implementation of controls
• Reporting on the controls placed in operations
• Reporting on the effectiveness of the controls placed in operations
• Reporting on remediations activities based on gap analysis performed

SYSTEM ANALYSIS & DESIGN TRACK:
Overview: System documentation is usually presented in the form of data flow diagrams, process flow diagram, data dictionary, file descriptor and computer output specifications. Decomposing a system into these components is key to understanding the inner working of a computerized platform. This course track teaches you how to document and review system processes utilizing the most widely used system modeling tools. You will study a system analysis and design approach based on best practices for requirement management, network architecture modeling, and software design.

Topics Covered include:
• System definition
• Feasibility study
• Modeling data flows for a new system
• Modeling data flows for an existing system
• Data dictionary definition
• Database design
• Process flow modeling
• Computer output design
• Object-Oriented data modeling
• Modeling relationship between object classes
• System design

APPLICATION AND SYSTEM TESTING TRACK:
Overview: The operating effectiveness of business and technical controls is determined through various levels of application and system testing. The testing process includes planning, documenting and methodically executing test scenarios to ensure that the system performs in accordance with technical and functional requirements. Upon completion of this track, you will have learned how to design and develop test plans and execute test cases at all levels and phases of the System Development and Testing Life Cycles.

Topics Covered include:
• Requirements testing
• Test data definition
• Test procedure definition
• Use case testing
• Unit Testing
• The Quality Assurance Life Cycle
• Process controls testing
• Application controls testing
• System controls testing
• Interface testing
• Object-Oriented testing
• GUI testing
• System migration testing
• Data conversion testing

COMPUTER SECURITY TRACK:
Overview: A good understanding of the company's security posture is key to performing security risk evaluation and testing. This track covers communications security, application security, network security for systems development, system implementation, and system operations projects.

Topics Covered include:
• Risk assessment
• Contingency planning & disaster recovery
• Types of security breach
• Encryption technologies
• Network protocols
• Operating system design and security
• Database security
• Network security
• Logical security
• Physical security

COMPUTER NETWORKS TRACK:
Overview: Distributed processing enables users in various geographical locations to work efficiently in a collaborative manner. Upon completion of this course track, you will have learned the inner workings of computer networks involving data and voice communications technologies. You will also learn how specialized software (protocol) used in data and voice transmission enable error free delivery of information across the computer network.

Topics Covered include:
• The ISO OSI Reference model
• Analog and digital transmission
• Transmission media
• ISDN Technologies
• Local and Wide Area Networks
• IEEE 802.X standards
• Network Protocols
• Routing algorithms and congestion controls
• Cryptography
• Remote procedure calls
• X.25, X.400 and X.500 standards