Governance, audit and digital preservation

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Governance, audit and digital preservation Boudien J. Glashouwer Boudien J. Glashouwer RE RI RE RI CISA CISA April 14, 2004 April 14, 2004

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  • 1. Governance, audit anddigital preservation Boudien J. GlashouwerRE RI CISA April 14, 2004

2. Table of contents

  • Governance
  • Quality and Maturity
  • Information Security
  • Audit
  • Digital preservation

3. Strategicbusiness goals

  • Profit or
  • Non-profit
  • Core business is digital preservation or
  • Digital preservation is secondary

4. Legislation

  • Democracy
  • Buying and selling agreements
  • Computer crime
  • Transparency
  • Privacy
  • Finance
  • Specific laws
  • Records management

5. Hot issues

  • Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002, USA
    • Financial reporting, auditing, internal control, standard setting, corporate governance
  • Basel II, New Basel Capital Accord, 2003, Europe
    • Limitation of credit risks and operational risks in banking

6. Governance

  • How to keep the ship on course?
  • How to achieve objectives?
  • How to timely adapt?
  • Governance
    • manage, control, account for and supervise

7. Management cycle Plan Do Check Correct/ Adapt

  • Goals, strategy and policy
  • Laws and regulations
  • Standards and control models
  • Commitment on top level
  • Needs
  • Responsibilities
  • Projects
  • Communication
  • Meetings
  • Organisation
  • Quality
  • Security
  • Measure
  • Alignment
  • Compliance
  • Assessment
  • Audit/assurance
  • Monitor, evaluate, learn
  • New standards?
  • Adapt policy

8. Plan 9. Governance & control models

  • COSO
    • USA, Internal Control Integrated Framework, 1992
    • business ethics, effective internal control, corporate governance
  • COBIT
    • Governance, control and audit for IT and related technology, 1996
    • IT-controls support the COSO-framework

10. COSO

  • Committee of Sponsoring Organisations
  • of the Treadway Commission (fraudulent financial reporting)
  • Internal Control Integrated Framework
  • 1. Control environment (company level)
  • 2. Risk assessment (achieve objectives)
  • 3. Control activities (policies, procedures, practices, general & application controls)
  • 4. Information and communication (at all levels)
  • 5. Monitoring of the internal control (oversight)

11. CobiT

  • Planning and Organisation
    • strategy, quality, human resources
  • Acquisition and Implementation
    • systems development and installing
  • Delivery and Support
    • service levels, operations, security
  • Monitoring
    • internal control, assurance, audit

12. Do 13. Business Performance

  • Manage business
  • Take action
  • Produce
  • Can be a bakery or digital preservation...

14. Quality and maturity of business processes

  • ISO 9000 general quality
  • ISO 15489 records management
  • ITIL IT Infrastructure Library
  • EFQM, total quality management

15. Information Security

  • Risk analysis business processes
  • Awareness
  • Standard ISO 17799
  • Baseline security levels
  • Manager, security-officer, security manager, auditor
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA and SLM)
  • Certification

16. Check 17. Monintoring & Measuring

  • Critical Success Factors
  • Key Goal Indicators
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Dashboards
  • Scorecards
  • Benchmarking

18. Auditing

  • Internal audit
    • Selfassessment
    • Internal Audit Service
  • External audit
    • Financial auditing
    • Operational auditing
    • IT/EDP-auditing

19. Resources

  • Business processes
    • input, througput, output, outcome
  • People
  • Application systems
  • Technology
  • Facilities
  • Data

20. Criteria

  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Confidentiality
  • Integrity
  • Availability
  • Compliance
  • Reliability

21. Audit approach

  • Legislation, standards
  • Management norms
  • Audit plan
  • Audit tools
  • Report
  • Communication
  • Certification?

22. Correct/Adapt 23. Improvement

  • Define maturity level
  • Learn
  • Take small steps
  • Grow and improve quality of business processes!

24. Digital preservation

  • No information, no control...
  • Without digital preservation governance, control and audit not possible!
  • Can the audit of business processes be enough or
  • Do we need a special preservation audit or certificate?

25. Take the challenge

  • Enjoy this conference in Antwerp!

26. Websites

  • www.coso.org
  • www.isaca.org
  • www.erpanet.org

27. Contact

  • Het Expertise Centrum, The Hague
  • www.hec.nl
  • [email_address]
  • 00 31 6 206 02 209