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ISACA Central UK - Chapter Meeting

Deloitte, 4 Brindley Place, Birmingham B1 2HZ 

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Thursday 20 January 2011

17:00 – 19.00

 For more details on the individual sessions, please see the speaker notes below

The CPE credit for this meeting will be 2 hours

This chapter meeting is free to ISACA members.            

To state your intention of attending this meeting and to ensure that adequate catering arrangements can be made, please email:events@isaca-central.org.uk or use the link on the Contact Us page. 

Continuous Auditing: Myth or Reality?                                 

Guest Speaker: Robin Clough, Dataconsulting

Continuous Auditing is an area where the talk often seems to exceed the associated activity.  This talk will cover:
 
-          The concept of Continuous Auditing;
-          Examples of Continuous Auditing;
-          Pro’s and con’s of Continuous Auditing;
-          Managing Continuous Auditing;
-          Continuous Auditing software solutions; and
-          Demonstration of a Continuous Auditing tool.
 
Robin is the founder of DataConsulting, a UK based CAATs consultancy. Robin was previously a director in Enterprise Risk Services at Deloitte. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Birmingham and Leeds, where as a senior manager he led PwC’s data assurance team.  At DataConsulting, he is responsible for client service, quality assurance, business development and strategy.  Robin is an ACL Certified Data Analyst and a certified ACL trainer.

Life, the Universe and Everything...

Guest Speaker: Cathy Brown, BT

This presentation covers the design and construction of an audit universe for one of the largest telcos in the world. Cathy will take us through the original decision making process, the design approach, the pitfalls and lessons learned, the various models employed and the maintenance processes. The IT universe is a sub set of the main universe and will be specifically covered

Cathy Brown is currently managing Group Risk Management at BT, after working in the IT Audit team. Accredited with CISA, CGEIT and CRISC, she holds the ITIL V3 Managers Certificate and COBIT accreditation. Cathy is a member of the British Standards Institute review panel for ISO20000 and is a regular speaker on IT Service Management, Auditing and Control activities.

 Meeting presentation slides and other excellent resources are available here (for Central UK Members only)