http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Thu, 23 May 2013 15:49:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/it-data-updates-and-auditors/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/it-data-updates-and-auditors/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:01:17 +0000 LetItBe I would like to hear how other shops deal with auditors regarding data updates made by IT staff.  

We use DFU/FILMNT/SQL for occasional data fixes. We print and file a log with who and why the change was made. Then to appease the auditors, we journal pretty much everything. A report is generated twice a day that shows any of these update methods and the object updated. The idea being – the auditor pulls a report out of a pile and should be aable to find the documentation for that update in our paper files.

This is a big waste of system resources in my opinion. Recently we have started using an offsite vaulting scheme for all of our backups – we would like to get off the journalling merry-go-round for good.

So I’m hoping some of you will share with me how this works in your shop.  

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