LONDON CHAPTER EVENTS 1999/2000

"No man is an island" and neither is a modern enterprise. All kinds of businesses and public sector organisations have embraced networks and distributed computing within the boundaries of their organisations. With the explosion of the internet, business to business e-commerce is becoming easier and cheaper. Links to customers, suppliers and other third parties such as banks or information providers are increasing. Business processes are reaching out into other organisations, not only for transaction processing (e.g. ordering, invoicing, distribution, payments) but also for business planning (e.g. suppliers accessing customers’ systems for demand planning or customers accessing suppliers systems for product information).

Technology is also enabling other efficiencies in areas such as procurement through the use of smart cards for example for high volume, low value purchases.

The era of e-commerce and the latest technological developments makes the concept of the Enterprise a reality today. This is a growing challenge for IS Audit and Security professionals, especially as the high performance companies of tomorrow will be exploiting the concept rapidly, challenging our current thinking on IT governance, risk management and control. What sort of enterprise will we be auditing in the next few years? The London Chapter’s 1999/2000 programme of events aims to explore this theme and propose some of the answers - so come along and help shape the future!