IUC 2020 - Session Recordings

Lockdown Your Access Control Policies

Speaker
Dr. David Wang, CPA, CIA, Associate Professor & Driehaus Fellow
DePaul University
 

Access control systems are among the most critical security components. Strong policies prevent unauthorized users from accessing, modifying, or deleting critical information. Discover new ways to use IDEA for testing access control policies with illustrative implementation processes and sample results. This session includes teaching materials and data sets used in auditing, IT audit, and accounting information systems courses. Watch a live demonstration on how to analyze employee, access control, and log files to uncover access control violations to safeguard data.
 

Learning Objectives

• Understand the benefits and limitations of data analytics

• Perform descriptive and diagnostic analytics to test access controls and write reports

• Automate access control testing following an illustrative example using IDEA