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Subject: Emerging Threats and Countermeasures
What is the goal of security audits and the importance of establishing best practices within and organization?
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Reference:
* Amoroso, E. G. (2012). Cyber attacks: protecting national infrastructure. Elsevier.
* Attached PPT for reference
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Running head: EMERGING THREATS AND COUNTERMEASURES
Emerging Threats and Countermeasures
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The Goal of Security Audits
Internal audit is a vital function of any compliance and information security program.
Before companies create controls and procedures around the security of IT, it is vital to
determine the risk that is available. The first goal of security audits is to gives justification to the
financial expenditures that are required to keep the firm safe. Tight budgets are an implication
that it is very challenging to approve additional costs. Auditing in IT assists in educating the
internal stakeholders to ensure that they see the vitality of mitigating the crucial risks and
approving s...