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MS in IT Auditing and Cyber-Security

Now accepting applications for spring and fall 2012! Click here to apply.

Get on the fast track for a career in protecting and evaluating organizational information systems!

Organizations rely on information systems to automate their processes, store their trade secrets and accumulate a large amount of private data about their customers.  Along with substantial benefits, these systems bring risks. Has your data been compromised?  Is someone stealing your secrets?  Are you in compliance with government regulations? Can your organization continue to operate after a natural disaster? 

MS - IT Auditing Online FraudThe role of an IT auditor is to assess, manage, and control the above risks.  IT auditors are responsible for analyzing organizational risks, communicating these risks, and applying solutions that reduce organizational threats, promote transparency and comply with regulations. IT auditors typically work on many different kinds of projects and enjoy a reasonable work-life balance.

MS - IT AuditingThe Fox School’s new Master of Science (MS) in Information Technology Auditing and Cyber-Security (MS ITACS) program prepares students as entry-level IT auditors who have the skills and knowledge needed to pass the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s (ISACA) Certified Information System Auditor exam. 

The MS ITACAS program is based on ISACA‘s model curriculum and students are expected to complete the certification exam at the end of their study.  The MSITACS can also be substituted for one year of experience on the CISA application in most situations.

The marketplace for IT auditors, especially those holding the CISA credential, is rapidly expanding at accounting firms, multinational corporations, consultancies and government organizations:

CISA was named in the top five of Foote Partners’ 2011 semiannual “HOT LIST Forecast” of IT skills and certifications…

SC Magazine selected CISA again as a finalist of the 2011 “Best Professional Certification Program…

CISA has been recognized as the highest paying IT security certification by the 2010 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index (ITSCPI)…

Curriculum

The curriculum is carefully designed to prepare you for the CISA exam.  The full-time program consists of 10 courses delivered in both compressed and traditional semester format in 12 months culminating in a capstone course in which you prepare for the CISA exam. See below for sample schedule and completion time. The courses include:

  1. MIS 5001 – Management Information Systems
    Surveys the effective uses of information systems and the issues they raise.
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    ACCT 5001 – Financial and Managerial Accounting
    Presents the concepts of financial and managerial accounting with a “user” (investor or manager) orientation.
  2. ACCT 5125 – Accounting Information Systems
    Learn how information systems impact how accounting data is captured, processed, and communicated.
  3. MIS 5201 – IT Audit Process
    Introduces the essential concepts of IT auditing and internal controls.
  4. MIS 5202 – IT Governance
    Examines how IT is managed in a controlled environment covering IT strategic planning, project management, COBIT, etc.
  5. MIS 5203 – Systems & Infrastructure r Management 1
    Introduces how IT systems are acquired, developed and implemented. Systems covered include network, infrastructure, databases, and applications. Topics covered include the basic system life-cycle, development methods, sourcing strategies, and integrated controls.
  6. MIS 5204 – Systems & Infrastructure Lifecycle Management 2
    The continuation of MIS 5203
  7. MIS 5205 – IT Service Delivery and Support
    Examines how an IT organization delivers services to the organization. Learn about the technical infrastructure, reliability, security, and service center management.
  8. MIS 5206 – Protection of Information Assets and Business Continuity-Disaster Recovery
    Explains the importance of managing information assets including logical, physical, and environmental security along with disaster recovery and business continuity.
  9. MIS 5207 – Business Skills for the IT Auditor
    Surveys professional skills including managerial communications, public speaking, interviewing, negotiation, personal selling skills, business writing, project management and team building.
  10. MIS 5210 – IT Auditing Capstone
    The capabilities developed throughout the program are used in case studies analyses and practice examinations.

Sample Schedule

MS - IT Auditing Students

The MS ITACS is a full-time program offered in compressed and traditional formats. The 10 course program is designed to be completed in 12 months. You can start the program in January and be ready to take the CISA exam in December:

  • January 2011: Two courses (compressed format)
  • End of January to end of May: Three courses (traditional once a week format)
  • End of May to end of July: Three courses (traditional once a week format)
  • September – December: Two courses (traditional once a week format)

Admissions and Pre-requisites

  • Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test scores.
  • Two letters of recommendation.
  • A required essay on how you became interested in this field, what your professional goals are, and how you see this program helping you achieve your goals.
  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores for non-native English speakers (unless degree from English language university located in native English language country).
  • A personal interview may be requested to make a decision on your application.
  • Depending on your specific background, you may be asked to take pre-requisite courses.

If you enjoy analysis and investigation, can think through complex problems, and want to join a lucrative fast growing field, you should consider becoming an IT auditor. 

Tuition and Fees

Total tuition for students starting in January 2012 is $30,000 at the rate of $1,000 per credit hour. Temple University also assesses additional service fees.

More information

Classes start in January 2012!

Fox MIS alumnus Niraj Patel donates $50K for scholarship fund

Niraj PatelFox School of Business alumnus Niraj Patel recently donated $50,000 to create a scholarship fund for outstanding students in Management Information Systems (MIS). Two $5,000 scholarships will be awarded annually.

Patel has been an avid supporter of the MIS Department since its founding and sits on the department’s Advisory Board. “The Fox MIS program is one of the most innovative and exciting in the nation, especially with the new BBA in MIS,” Patel said. “I am very pleased to support the entrepreneurial and hardworking students at Temple Fox MIS.”

Since graduating from Fox in 1990 with a degree in MIS and finance, Patel has built a distinguished career. He serves as president of ISGN, a partner of Witmer LLC and managing director of the Musser Group. As a multi-national border expert, he has a strong client base in India and has completed large-scale projects bridging nations.

Previously, Patel served as a founding member and executive vice president/chief information officer for GMAC Commercial Mortgage. There, he increased loan originations from $2 billion to $29.9 billion.

Patel, an award-winning innovator, is viewed as one of the leading technologists of his generation. He serves on numerous boards and panels, speaks at industry conferences and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and numerous commercial real estate, finance and technology publications

Niraj Patel appointed 2011 Executive-in-Residence

Niraj Patel, BBA ’85,  President, ISGN, Partner, Witmer LLC, and Managing Director, Musser Consulting Group has been appointed “Executive in Residence” at the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department and the Institute for Business and Information Technology for the 2011 year.

Mr. Patel was selected as Executive in Residence because of his stature in the field and his continued support for the Fox School. As part of the appointment, Mr. Patel will be spending several days through the year interacting with Fox School MIS students and faculty. Patel will be visiting Fox in March 2011 to start the program. “We are fortunate to have Niraj Patel, one of our most successful, entrepreneurial, and innovative alums as our Executive in Residence” said Munir Mandviwalla, associate professor and chair of the management information systems department at the Fox School of Business.

“As a proud Temple alum, I am very much looking forward to engaging with Fox School MIS faculty and students” Patel said. “The MIS faculty and students at Temple have an entrepreneurial spirit and focus on innovation that is closely aligned with my interests.”

Biography

Niraj Patel
President, ISGN
Partner, Witmer LLC and Managing Director, Musser Consulting Group

Niraj Patel is a senior business executive with a successful track record of uncovering a corporation’s hidden value and opportunities to create long-term strategic and innovative solutions to increase profitability and performance.  His plans have included strategies to address organic growth, in-organic growth through acquisitions, investments, technology solutions and exit strategies. Patel has a passion for distinguishing where possibility does or does not exist in a business endeavor. His business expertise represents the culmination of 15 years focusing on growth strategies through innovation. His business acumen coupled with utilizing some of the most forward thinking business minds, enables him to assist international organizations with value innovation, calculated risk and exponential growth.

Patel currently serves as President of ISGN, a Partner of Witmer LLC and Managing Director for the Musser Consulting Group.  As a multi-national/cross border expert, he has a strong client base in India and has completed large scale projects bridging nations. Patel works closely with his diverse clients including single product firms, medium size firms targeting rapid growth and international conglomerates. It’s their potential that drives Patel to engage their leaders to conceptualize and generate innovative ideas, analyze business strategies, and develop effective solutions, processes and procedures to produce streamlined profitable operations. His approach assists organizations accelerate growth and realize their fullest potential. 

Patel is one of the founders of ISGN.  ISGN has grown from 100 employees to 1,800 worldwide and customer base has increased to over 1,100.  Previously Patel served as a founding member and Executive Vice President/CIO for GMAC Commercial Mortgage.  As a member of the Executive Committee, he was a key contributor to the organization’s international growth by consistently delivering double-digit net income growth reaching as high as $341.6 million annually, increasing loan originations from $2 to $29.9 billion, building loan servicing from $5 to $276 billion.

Recognized as an award winning innovator and viewed as one of the leading technologists of his generation, Patel serves on numerous boards and panels, speaks at industry conferences and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and numerous commercial real estate, finance and technology publications.  Patel’s community and professional memberships have included the Microsoft Executive Circle; Eastern Technology Council; the Board of Advisors of the Management Information Systems department at the Temple University Fox School of Business; the NPower CIO Advisory Council. and His executive board experience includes: the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) Board of Directors,  EnableUS and  MortgageRamp. 

He has a BBA in Finance and MIS from Temple University and resides in suburban Philadelphia with his family.

About the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department and Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT)

The Fox School’s MIS department offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in information systems and includes more than 600 majors and minors and 12 faculty members. Ranked number 1 in the world for research in 2010 by the Association for Information Systems, and in the top 10 by The Chronicle of Higher Education and TechRepublic in 2008/2009, the MIS department is one of the youngest and most successful IT oriented departments in the U.S. The associated Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) connects students and faculty with industry leaders through a membership structure, and provides project and professional development opportunities. For more information, visit community.mis.temple.edu or ibit.temple.edu

Fox IT awards 2011

 Fox IT Awards 2011 Joe Spagnoletti Kurt Holstein John H. Shain

The Fox School of Business at Temple University is honoring three top technology leaders at its Eleventh annual Fox Information Technology Awards on Tuesday, April 12.

Awardees include Joseph C. Spagnoletti, senior vice president and chief information officer, Campbell Soup Co.; Kurt Holstein, vice chairman and co-founder, Rosetta; and John H. Shain, president and chief operating officer, Automated Financial Systems. The awards will be presented on Temple’s Main Campus in Philadelphia.

“These awards recognize outstanding role models in industry for our students,” said Munir Mandviwalla, chair of the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) Department.

Spagnoletti will receive the Fox Information Technology Leader Award for leadership in the use and development of IT in business, and Holstein will receive the Fox Information Technology Innovator Award for applying IT to create business opportunity. Shain will receive the Fox Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni, given in recognition of his distinguished IT career and his contribution to the community, industry and Temple. The event will also recognize excellence in leadership among the school’s MIS faculty, administration and student body.

Spagnoletti leads Campbell’s global information technology function, providing IT strategy to help the company meet its business goals. Spagnoletti created a new IT competency model focused on business unit achievement and is in the process of redefining the relationship of IT with the company at all levels of organization.

Holstein helped build Rosetta from a four-person consulting firm in 1998 to the fifth largest digital agency in the country with more than 1,200 employees and nine offices in the U.S. and Canada. He has led the organization that developed many industry firsts in digital and data-driven personalized marketing, including the first iPad-based physician-detailing tool for the pharmaceutical industry. He holds five patents on the use of advanced segmentation to enhance personalization of marketing and the application of segmentation to digital personalization. Holstein also developed integrated mobile/web/social/CRM-based programs that leverage customer databases to provide unified digital experiences.

Shain is president and chief operating officer for Automated Financial Systems (AFS), the market leader in the provision of commercial lending solutions and industry benchmarking in risk, operational performance and pricing to more than 60 percent of the top 25 banks. In the 1990s, with Shain as president, AFS became the first major supplier to announce a Y2K solution. More recently, he started a new distribution strategy that ultimately evolved to cloud computing, which now accounts for 50 percent of AFS’ revenue.

Click here to register for the Eleventh Annual IT awards (registration required, no walk-ins permitted)

Fox DESIGNweek Challenge – North BROADband

How can we use increasingly pervasive digital technology to re-imagine the future of the city?

The Fox DESIGNweek Challenge, “North BROADband”, is the first annual student competition to transform ideas into actions. Organized by the Center for Design and Innovation and the Fox School of Business in cooperation with the City of Philadelphia, the challenge brings together college and university students from the Philadelphia region to collaborate across disciplinary lines to create innovative solutions to address some of today’s most challenging urban issues. Work with facilitators James Moustafellos, Fox School of Business, and Lucy Kimbell, Oxford University, and a panel of industry leaders to formulate your competition submission to re-imagine the city through the integration of technology and design.

Be part of a dynamic, collaborative environment of active learning with opportunities for networking and developing new business. $1000 (first place) and $500 (second place) cash prizes.

Kick-off: Monday, March 14th

Workshop and final submission: Thursday, March 17th

Students may enter as a team or as individuals. For more information and to register please visit http://design.temple.edu/challenge2011

Jack Hughes to speak on The Changing Nature of Work

 

The Changing Nature of Work

The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology in collaboration with the Management Information Systems department presents the Fox IT distinguished speaker series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.

Jack Hughes
Founder and Chairman
TopCoder, Inc.

February 10, 2011

The world of work is rapidly changing. The internet will have profound effects on how companies manage a highly diverse, mobile and global workforce. Management models will undergo shifts to meet these new challenges and opportunities. Managers will need to develop new skill sets, measurement and motivation systems to engage these new models of work. Mr. Hughes will discuss these changes and their effects in the context of TopCoder – the world’s largest competitive software development community.

Biography

In November 2000, Jack Hughes founded TopCoder on the premise that talent and skill are the determinant factors in the quality and utility of software — and software has become central to the global economy.

In both his own programming experience and as co-founder and chairman of Tallán Inc., a provider of web-enabled business solutions, Hughes recognized that while successful projects were driven by superior programming skills, the talent was unqualified and largely unrecognized. TopCoder’s mission is to create objective ratings that place high value on the programming industry’s best and brightest, and build opportunity and community for programmers through ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections.

Under Hughes’ tenure as chairman at Tallán, the company was recognized as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America four years in a row by consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche and by Inc. magazine for its outstanding performance. In 2000, CMGI, Inc. acquired a majority ownership of the company.

Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Boston College. He is Chairman of the Board for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Registration and attendance

Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.

Michelle Dy-Reyes wins FoxMIS eportfolio contest

FoxMIS announces fall 2010 e-portfolio contest winners

The department of Management Information Systems is proud to announce the recipients of the Fall 2010 e-portfolio winners. This winner is Michelle Dy-Reyes, BBA in MIS/International Business and the runner up is Kevin Kish, BBA in MIS. The winners were selected by a committee chaired by Laurel Miller, Director, IBIT and included Fox School Administration and faculty members. The committee rated each of the 21 eligible submissions and then discussed the results to select the winners. The e-portfolio contest recognizes students that have developed a clear, content filled e-portfolio which showcases their work both at Temple and in the community.  Their e-portfolio is a place where they display their work experience as well as their skills for the workplace.

AMIS receives AIS 2010 Outstanding Student Chapter award

AMIS was named a 2010 Outstanding Student Chapter by the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the premier association for information systems. The association’s annual Student Chapter Awards recognize outstanding achievement among more than 3,000 students associated with AIS student organizations worldwide. For more information see http://www.fox.temple.edu/features/amis_award.html.

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