Chapter 8IT risks

DOI: 10.1201/9781003230137-8

We can open a clock and examine it. Where here is time?

Martin Heidegger, What is a Thing?

Technical risks are those risks from raw materials, machinery, hardware, or software used in operational activities in given legal contexts. For the audit of information systems, technical risks are information technology (IT) risks and concern the two elements at the bottom of the diagram below: Computers and networks. These two elements are part of what is called IT infrastructure. They are shown in Figure 8.1.

A graphic depicts the location of technical risks in a company. There are 7 different components: Personnel, workflow or processes, Medium Applications, Data, Computers and Networks wherein computers and networks are highlighted as technical risks.

Figure 8.1 Location of the technical risks.

These two elements are part of the physical infrastructure ...

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