Content: ISACA recently published its Top Business/Technology Issues Survey Results. This document provides IT and Internal Audit assurance professionals with an understanding of senior IT management's concerns. The Annual IBM CIO Survey, confirms these top issues, but emphasizes data integrity, information security, and data analytics to support IT value management. In our efforts to provide value to management with an audit universe that addresses their risk assessment, building an audit response to their top technology issues improves our relevance, develops confidence with our client/customer, and provides a necessary service.

In this seminar, IT Management's top issues including regulatory compliance, enterprise-based IT management and IT governance, information security management, disaster recovery/business continuity, IT value management, and challenges of managing it risks will be discussed. Each of these issues will be approached by Defining the issue, Exploring the relationship of the issue to assurance, Using IT frameworks such as the IT Assurance Framework and CobiT to provide a baseline for addressing the issue, and Exploring how Internal Audit can respond to these management concerns through either integrating these issues into the existing audit universe or establishing narrowly focused assessments to provide appropriate assurance.

Objectives: Attendees will learn about:

• An understanding of current IT management issues
• A basis for assigning assurance risk to IT's top concerns
• A strategy for incorporating IT management's requirements into your audit universe
• An approach to incorporate objective maturity model assessment into the evaluation

This program is presented in Group-Live format and is an Intermediate - Program Level, Auditing - Category program requiring Basic Audit knowledge and no advanced preparation. Recommended CPE credit is 14.0 hour.

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Lunch, morning, and afternoon snacks will be provided.

Norm Kelson, CPS, CISA, CGEIT

Norm is the Kelson Group's Managing Director. He is a 30 year veteran with extensive experience in IT assurance and governance as a consultant with a Big 4 firm and an internal audit boutique, internal auditor executive, and industry advocate. He has been responsible for building and disseminating best practices to internal audit and governance stakeholders.

As Managing Director of The Kelson Group, Norm specializes in IT Assurance Risk, and Governance. He was recently engaged by ISACA to re-write their extensive IT Audit Program offerings that are available as a resource to its members, create Web-based seminars which support the IT Audit Programs, create case studies for the IT Governance Using COBIT® and VAL IT™: Student Book 2nd Edition, and is involved in other governance related projects for ISACA and the IT Governance Institute. Previously, he was Director of IT Audit for the Dutch retailer Ahold, and was responsible for IT Audit services for the Stop & Shop, Giant (Maryland and Pennsylvania), Tops, and Peapod grocery chains. He was a key member of the internal audit professional practices and standards and the global information security committees.

Norm was Vice President of Internal Audit Services and National IT Audit Practice Director for CBIZ Harborview Partners, where he was responsible for establishing an Internal Audit/Corporate Governance practice.

He served as Managing Director of IT Audit and Technical Seminars for MIS Training Institute. During his 12 year tenure he was responsible for creation, and all curriculum development, of its global IT Audit training portfolio focusing on best practices in risk-based auditing.

He had managed KPMG's New England Region IT Auditing practice, and held positions in IT Audit management with Fannie Mae, CIGNA, and Loews Corporation. He began his career as a financial auditor with Laventhol and Horwath.

As a member of both the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Norm is a frequent speaker and subject matter expert at their conferences. He is a former Executive Vice President of the New England ISACA Chapter, and recipient of the John Beveridge Achievement Award, conferred by the New England Chapter of ISACA to an individual "who has, over and beyond the norm, contributed his or her efforts to their Profession and ISACA".
Norm graduated Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CPA, CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), and CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology).

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