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Database Controls

Database Controls
 To maintain the integrity and availability of data the following controls may
be used :
 Enforcing definition standards
 Data backup and recovery
 Access control to data objects
 Assignment of privileged use
 Dealing with concurrent access problems i.e. data locks
 Ensuring accuracy, completeness and consistency of data elements and
relationships
 Database checkpoints
 Monitoring database performance
Tape and Disk Management Systems
 Automated tape management systems (TMS) or disk management systems
(DMS) are forms of specialized system software track and list tape/disk
resources needed for data center processing.
Utility Programs
 Utility programs consist of software to perform maintenance and routine that
may need to be repeated frequently. Utility programs are categorized by use
in the five functional areas.
 Understanding application systems via flowchart, profile analyzers,
executive path analyzers etc.
 Assessing or testing data quality
 Testing of programs ability to function correctly and maintain data
integrity
 Assisting in faster program development i.e. integrated development
environments
 Improving operational efficiency such as CPU and memory utilization
Software Licensing Issues
 Whether connectivity to software is local or remote, software copyright laws
must be followed to protect against the possibility of the company violating
licensing rules.
 To prevent or detect software licensing violations the auditor should:
 Review the document policies and procedures and any preventative
controls to guard against unauthorized use or copying of software
 Obtain copies of all software contacts to determine the license agreements
 Review the list of all standard, used and license applications and system
software
 Review software currently installed on user machines
Digital Rights Management
 Options available to prevent software license violations include :
 Centralizing control and automated distribution installation software
 Dumb terminals connecting to a secure LAN
 Installing metering software on the PCs
 Regular scanning of user PCs
 An alternative would be acquire a site license agreement from the vendor if
possible
Digital Rights Management
 Due to the growth of software piracy through peer t o peer or bit torrent
types of networks there’ve been many innovative ways to make nearly
impossible to pirate software
 DRM refers to access control technique to protect copyright holders and
impose limitation on the use of digital content
Network Infrastructure
Network Infrastructure
 Network are developed from the need to share information between devices.
 In general the links communicate in either analog or digital signals
 Methods for transmitting signals over analog telecommunication links use
either baseband or broadband
 Baseband refers to a single signal injection of the communication link
 Broadband is two or more signal on the same link often at different carrier
frequencies
Enterprise Network Architecture
 Today’s networks are part of a large, centrally managed, internetwork
architecture solution of high-speed local and wide are networks
 Some architectures might include clustering, types of functions in a network
segment such as web services or other application servers
 The auditor must understand information technologies associated with the
design and development of telecommunications infrastructures such as LAN or
WAN
Types of Networks
 Personal Area Network
 Local Area Network
 Wide Area Network
 Metropolitan Area Network
 Storage Area Network
Network Services
 Network File System
 E-mail Services
 Print Services
 Remote Access Services
 Directory Services
 Network Management
 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
 Domain Name Services
Network Standard and Protocol
 Network architecture standards allow the process or creating an integrated
environment that applications can work within by having a reference model
that can be used for structuring inter-computer and network communications
 Basically the goal is to have different platforms speaking the same language
 The major challenge of communications are :
 Interoperability
 Availability
 Flexibility
 Maintainability
OSI Architecture
 The purpose of the OSI architecture was to write a reference model that
organizations could use for building inter-computer and network
communications processes. This is a proof of concept model composed of
seven layers
OSI Architecture
 The purpose of the OSI architecture was
to write a reference model that
organizations could use for building
inter-computer and network
communications processes. This is a
proof of concept model composed of
seven layers

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