Auditing and Security: AS/400, NT, UNIX, Networks, and Disaster Recovery Plans - Hardcover

Musaji, Yusufali F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471383716 ISBN 13: 9780471383710

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

A complete and definitive guide to auditing the security of IT systems for managers, CIOs, controllers, and auditors
This up-to-date resource provides all the tools you need to perform practical security audits on the entire spectrum of a company's IT platforms-from the mainframe to the individual PC-as well as the networks that connect them to each other and to the global marketplace. Auditing and Security: AS/400, NT, Unix, Networks, and Disaster Recovery Plans is the first book on IT security written specifically for the auditor, detailing what controls are necessary to ensure a secure system regardless of the specific hardware, software, or architecture a company runs. The author uses helpful checklists and diagrams and a practical, rather than theoretical, method to understanding and auditing a company's IT security systems and their requirements. This comprehensive volume covers the full range of issues relating to security audits, including:
* Hardware and software
* Operating systems
* Network connections
* The cooperation of logical and physical security systems
* Disaster recovery planning

About this title

About the Author

YUSUFALI F. MUSAJI, CGA, CISA, CISSP, is founder, director, and President of Ali's Y. Consulting, Inc., an IT and financial consulting firm specializing in computer consulting. Mr. Musaji's experience embraces the full spectrum of financial, operational, and IT disciplines required of state-of-the-art organizations. His functional and technical areas of expertise include system development and implementation, project management, computer security, and financial systems. He is widely published in IT, financial, and security journals regarding IT/user relationships, and has also developed numerous business continuity plans. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from York University, Toronto, Canada.

From the Inside Flap

According to law enforcement figures, American corporations lose billions of dollars a year due to IT security breaches. Auditing and Security: AS/400, NT, Unix, Networks, and Disaster Recovery Plans provides the tools that an auditor needs to ensure that a company's platforms and networks are adequately protected.

Auditing information systems for security requires knowledge across a wide range of disciplines beyond computer science, including management science, information security, accounting, finance, business, and human resources. This book supplies the vital information across these divergent fields that auditors, IT managers, controllers, and CIOs need to measure the security of their systems. This comprehensive volume covers the full range of issues relating to security audits-hardware, operating systems, network connections, the cooperation of logical and physical security measures, and disaster recovery planning.

The author begins with an overview of the structure of information systems and their security requirements and then shows you how physical and logical security systems work together to create a safe corporate information structure. Comprehensive treatment of the different structures and security needs of AS/400, Microsoft NT, and Unix allows you to understand security requirements regardless of which computer architecture a company runs. Auditing and Security also uses helpful checklists and diagrams and a practical, rather than theoretical, method for understanding hardware, operating systems, and the networks that enable the interconnection of platforms and applications. Another important topic this volume covers is disaster recovery planning to help you ensure that IT systems and the information they safeguard are recoverable in the event of a major disruption in service or intentional destruction of data.

This up-to-date resource provides all the tools you need to perform practical security audits on the entire spectrum of a company's various IT platforms-from the mainframe to the individual PC-as well as the networks that connect them to each other and to the global marketplace. Auditing and Security: AS/400, NT, Unix, Networks, and Disaster Recovery Plans is the first book on IT security written specifically for the auditor, detailing what controls are necessary to ensure a secure system regardless of the specific hardware, software, or architecture a company runs. For the companion Web site, please visit www.wiley.com/musaji.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471383716
• ISBN 13: 9780471383710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552