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Blake D. Koen posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
I agree that all auditors have their undesirable traits. No one will have everything that you want. I would have to say that the faker is the worst. If you know more about controls and less about regulations, you should have the integrity to say that you don’t know HIPPA or PCI regulations and let someone else deal with those audits. Not being…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen commented on the post, ICE 5.1 Telling a Story through Visualization, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
On audit interaction- I think that one of the hardest things about being an auditor is getting people to trust you. People often think of auditors as the bad guys who are only there to get the employees in trouble or even fired. Reality is that is not the case. Auditors are there to help ensure that policies and controls are being followed, so…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 6 months ago
I found this while reading some of the other articles, and decided it was worth it to post. Unfortunately, it is a slideshow. It talks about taking steps you can take to prevent an insider breach.
Some of the […]
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Blake D. Koen posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Good article. I hadn’t thought much of how to handle what you found once you’ve completed your risk assessment. The article does a good job mentioning that you can’t spread fear in the organization about a threat or doubt that the organization can handle it. You don’t want to scare people into making a decision quickly, as making a decision under…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, September 22, on the site 7 years, 6 months ago
I agree, the companies can only do so much. The customer in this case should have been suspicious , especially of that second email.
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Blake D. Koen wrote a new post on the site MIS5208 Spring 2017 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Everyone,
My name is Blake Koen, and I am a student here in the ITACS program like all of you are. I am a part time student, and will be graduating this summer. Originally I am from Moorestown, New Jersey, […]
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Blake D. Koen posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
I often wonder how many people fall victim to these scams. I know that they only need a small percentage to for these to work, but then I log onto to social media and see my friends posting some stupid thing saying that they don’t give facebook the right to steal their photos or something, and they believe they are protecting their account. Then…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen wrote a new post on the site Blake Koen 7 years, 11 months ago
Welcome to my eportfolio. My Name is Blake Koen. I am currently a Masters Student in the IT Auditing and Cyber Security program at Temple University, with a graduation date of May 2017.
I have spent most of my […]
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Blake D. Koen created the site Blake Koen 7 years, 11 months ago
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Blake D. Koen's profile was updated 7 years, 11 months ago
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Blake D. Koen commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 8 years, 4 months ago
Over the past 3 weeks we have talked a lot about segregation of duties. While we all knew that this is an important control to prevent fraud, we learned more about which job functions need to be separated. For example, we now know that people in sales should not be receiving customer payments. We also know that there should be a SOD in the…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen commented on the post, 100 Second Reflection – Week 8, on the site 8 years, 5 months ago
Over the last two weeks, I learned how to make journal entries in SAP, as well as other business controls that can be put in place to prevent fraud. In addition, I also learned about how the roles in SAP can prevent fraud. When the user attempts to do something (like create or edit a transaction), the system checks the users key chain to ensure…[Read more]
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Blake D. Koen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Hi,
Are the videos not working for anyone else? I can’t get them to play.
Blake
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Blake D. Koen posted a new activity comment 8 years, 7 months ago
Reading observations:
Auditor’s Guide to IT Auditing, Cascarino Chapter 16In addition to the planning and development that is talked about above, there are controls that the organization can enact to protect themselves. Segregation of duties is one thing- this prevents one person from having too much power and reduces the risk that fraud a…[Read more]
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Good post, Blake. I was surprised with the high percentage of the insider mistakes as well. That reminded me of a project I did in my undergraduate class, where the breached happened only because of an insider not doing their job properly. I am sure we all have heard about the Target’s data breach. Target wasn’t breached because it didn’t invest in proper information security mechanisms. On the contrary, Target had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in data security and was also a certified PCI-complaint. Target gad their own security operations center in Minneapolis. Fireeye, a company that Target had hired for intrusion detection had warned Target about a malware of high criticality scale in Target’s system 5 times but Target ignored all the warnings, which resulted into 40 million credit and debit card numbers leak. Target’s security division literally chose to ignore all the top warning signs.
Nice post, Blake. 80% is really a high percentage.The problem is that the people working for or within an organization are aware of the mechanisms that applied and may use this knowledge in a negative way. Indeed, the security mechanisms (e.g. firewalls, access controls, physical access controls) are usually built for the untrusted external attacker and not for the trusted insider.