Cybersecurity Technology Topics

Understand your role as an auditor in helping to define risk and controls related to specific information technologies and how they affect protection of assets.

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Course description

After this course, the auditor should be able to understand the functions of each type of technology and the limitations and the risks of using them in their organization.

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Meet the author

Ken Magee

Ken is President and owner of Data Security Consultation and Training, LLC. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Robert Morris College in PA and a Master’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in NJ. He has taught cybersecurity at many different venues, including the JAG school at the University of Virginia, KPMG Advisory University, Microsoft, and several major federal financial institutions and government agencies. Ken has also taught cybersecurity classes in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada and Mexico.

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