Review the “Audit Program for Application Systems for Auditing,” presented in Appendix B of Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing. Also, read the following articles:

• "A Framework for Health Care Information Assurance and Policy Compliance" by Sherrie Drye Cannoy and A. F. Salam.

• "Information Assurance and Corporate Strategy: A Delphi Study of Choices, Challenges, and Developments for the Future" by Elspeth McFadzean, Jean-Noël Ezingeard, and David Birchall.

• "Five Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes" from the Toledo Business Journal.

Write a paper in which you:

• Discuss which employees and organizations have a deeper level of information assurance (IA) policy compliance. Examine the factors that increased the individual’s level of propensity for compliance.

• Determine the internal and external factors affecting IA policy compliance.

• Ascertain which of the organizational requirements poses difficulty in adopting technical features to enhance security policy. Discuss factors related to IA and policy compliance that are affected by government regulations.

• Suggest a framework that could be used to address the issues described in the “Five Most Common Cybersecurity Mistakes” article, based on the “Audit Program for Application Systems for Auditing.”

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

Information Assurance Executive summary Information assurance involves the security and accessibility of critical data or information to both organizational and individual status Salam 2010 The protec... View the full answer