Chapter 3Information system audit

DOI: 10.1201/9781003230137-3

What is simple is always wrong. What is not simple is unusable.

Paul Valery, Mauvaises pensées et autres

3.1 CHALLENGES

Regulation, control, and auditing are a necessity for the proper functioning of companies and stock exchanges. Originally, they were applied to financial information. The digitalization of almost all the information necessary for the proper functioning of the company forces us to review the scope of regulation, control, and audit. This new perimeter, which covers all the information necessary for the company’s operation, is called the company’s information system.

Historically, companies confine the concern of digital information management to a dedicated department. ...

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