Information Technology General Controls

This event qualifies for 8 CEUs

This event qualifies for 8 CPEs

This event qualifies for 8 CLPs

Learn the best practices for Information Technology governance, management, security, control and auditing under COBIT and COSO 2013.

This is a one-day CPE seminar designed to provide an understanding of an effective program for the creation of a system of internal control within Information Technology (IT). We use the COBIT framework as our basis for the control groups and assessment is under COSO 2013. It was created to allow organizations to create effective Section 404 documentation. Be trained on how your organization can develop and maintain an effective IT internal control framework to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Section 404 or other similar regulations.

Our attendees learn that a top-down, risk-based approach to COBIT compliance can produce better results for their companies by streamlining their operations, providing more accurate, timely and reliable information, avoiding litigation and reducing their IT costs. Learn the "Best Practices" for COBIT, COSO 2013 and Section 404 from the methodology viewpoints provided by Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and IT departments around the globe. Implement and update your IT SOX compliance and IT auditing programs.

This CPE seminar is for IT and non-IT professionals, auditors and management. (8 Hours CPE) (YB). A certificate of completion will be provided.

Testimonial concerning the virtual event: "My knowledge was "hit and miss" and had been gathered piece meal style. You put an orderly format to all the different pieces of the IT audit process so that it made sense. I realized I understood IT auditing better than I thought. You arranged your presentation so that at the end, the slides would give us a big picture in bites that we could absorb."

"Sulaiman provided action items for the implementation of COSO 2013 Framework. He is an excellent trainer and the sessions are really enjoyable."

Speaker and Presenter Information

David S. Marshall, MBA, CISA, CFE is a Principal with Infotech Global, a provider of audit, compliance, IT and training services from Chicago, IL area. With over 20 years of experience, he is an expert in internal control, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and information technology. He has assisted numerous companies, from startups to multinationals, improve their operations by strengthening their internal control programs and complying with Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as providing IT auditing, computer security and fraud prevention training.

During his career, Dave has performed financial, operational and IT audits, security assessments, fraud investigations, financial and manufacturing system implementations, and regulatory compliance assistance. He headed up the IT Audit Consulting group at one of the largest aerospace and defense contractors in the United States, where he conducted enterprise risk assessments, audits, network penetrations, program effectiveness studies, business continuity reviews, fraud examinations, and financial data analysis using IDEA software. Prior to that, he was a senior manager in the management consulting practice PWC, where he performed similar services to Fortune 500 companies, banks and agencies. Dave helped to develop the firms Audit methodology, participated in writing the Institute of Internal Auditors’ System Auditability and Control Guidelines, and conducted quality assurance reviews of internal and external audit groups.

He has an MBA degree, and is a Certified Information Systems Auditors (CISA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He is a member and past board director of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and helped organize the IIA International Conference, and is the President of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Mr. Marshall and Mr. Blackshire have been presenting informative and entertaining seminars on internal control, corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance since 2004.

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