Auditing - The Unexpected Ally
Geoff Halprin
Topic: Soft Skills
Audience: Intermediate/Advanced
Description:
As a system administrator, the audit is the most valuable tool in your
arsenal when it comes to dealing with management. It should be your
primary tool for:
o Convincing management that there is a problem that needs
addressing;
o Educating management as to the true nature and complexity of
your role, and how much effort is involved in doing that job
well;
o Planning technical improvement works to a site, including
obtaining management sign-off on these projects;
This workshop will introduce the concepts and principles of audits,
and examine in detail how to conduct and audit, including interviews
and system inspections, and how to present the results of that work to
management in the form of a formal audit report.
Prerequisites:
Experience as a system administrator or similar technical role.
History:
SAGE-AU'98 (Canberra).
SAGE-AU'99 (Sydney).
LISA-99 (Seattle).
Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:25:20 PM
The Speaker: Geoff Halprin
Contact Organization: The SysAdmin Group
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Phone: +61-3-9686-3233
Email: Geoff.Halprin@sysadmin.com.au
Website: http://www.sysadmin.com.au
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: 1500 per day
Other payment info: Fees and expenses for tutorials, travel only for conference papers. Need several months warning for overseas travel.
Bio:
Geoff Halprin is the Principal Consultant at The SysAdmin Group.
He has been a system administrator for the past 15 years, and
a consulting system administrator for over 10.
Geoff specialises in data security and systems management
disciplines, and in the evaluation and improvement of systems
management practices. He has consulted to a wide variety of
organisations, including government, large corporations, and
several major ISPs.
Geoff is also the Vice-President of the System Administrator's
Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU).
Last change: Sep 8, 2006 02:55:12 AM
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