September 3-7, 2018
Washington Plaza Hotel
Washington D.C.
Washington Plaza Hotel
Washington D.C.
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This is the first of three courses in the series designed to accelerate the learning curve to becoming a seasoned IT auditor. Your very promising journey starts with this Volume I - Standards, Principles and Rules for Conducting Financial Statement Auditing in the CLOUD Ecosystem. Topics include, “Constructing Accounting Cycles in the CLOUD”; “Testing Segregation of Duties in the CLOUD”; Constructing Transaction Cycles in the CLOUD”, Continuous Auditing in the CLOUD, etc. Volume II – Testing Strategy, Testing Procedures, and Test Cases for Conducting Financial Statements in the CLOUD Ecosystem teaches you how to methodically conduct controls and substantive testing in the CLOUD. Volume III – Practical Application of CLOUD Auditing Tools provides hands-on experience with automated tools and platforms that can aid in the performance of audit analysis, audit testing, electronic evidence gathering, and work paper documentation in the CLOUD.
Participants will learn:
- About the progression Information Technology has made from mainframe, to client server to web-based applications and now to CLOUD based systems
- The fundamentals of the CLOUD ecosystem
- The various technologies that comprise the CLOUD ecosystem
- The various features and configurations of the 3 base CLOUD computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- The features, configuration and operations of various derivative CLOUD service modules such as Security-as-a-Service, Storage-as-a-Service and Anything-as-a-Service
- About the evolving brokered CLOUD services
- The key concepts of CLOUD auditing – a CASE STUDY
- CLOUD risk assessment – a CASE STUDY
- How the underlying technology related to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platform are implemented
- The roles and responsibilities of actors in the CLOUD ecosystem
- How the CLOUD business model has changed the way financial auditors perform their due diligence responsibilities
- The way how the CLOUD business model has changed the traditional way audit evidence gathered and documented
- Statistical analysis in a “Big Data” environment
- Continuous auditing
- Continuous monitoring
- Segregation of duties in the CLOUD
- How to generate electronic evidence in the CLOUD environment
- Assessing financial controls in a virtualized environment
- Tracing data from its generation to final disposition
- Implementing financial controls in a virtualized computing environment
- Testing business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response in the CLOUD
- Generating transaction cycles in the CLOUD
- The way electronic evidence is gathered, verified and validated
- Application of computer forensic investigation for financial reporting purposes
- System Development Project Management