"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." — Douglas Noel Adams. "The important thing about science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." -- William Bragg. __________________________________________________________
1. Government of Canada Internal audit guides - (many subjects)
a) www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/ia-vi/common/guides_e.asp b) www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/Pubs_pol/dcgpubs/tb_h4/siglist_e.asp
2. GAO best practice guides; various subjects; over 100 guides !!!
a) Special Publications: Computer and Information Technology
www.gao.gov/special.pubs/cit.html
b) Special Publications: Evaluation Research and Methodology
www.gao.gov/special.pubs/erm.html
c) Best Practices:
Methodology
www.gao.gov/docsearch/featured/bp_methodology.html
d) Best Practices: Comparative Benchmarking Products
www.gao.gov/docsearch/featured/bp_benchmark.html
e) Special Publications - Accounting and Financial Management
www.gao.gov/special.pubs/afm.html
3. Compliance and IT audit advice from TripWire and a writing team of five people (myself included).
www.tripwire.com/promos/61/cio/index.cfm?tid=2293
4. IT Compliance Institute.
www.itcinstitute.com
5. Open Compliance and Ethics Group.
www.oceg.org
6. OCEG IT Summit
www.ocegitforum.com/
note 1 - I have been involved with OCEG's efforts for almost three years now as a member of their steering committee (see link). note 2 - I am also
currently developing (i.e. under contract) an internal so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon. ____________________________________________________________
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