Policy, Legal, Legislation and Compliance Saudi Personnel Compliance and Adaption to Recent Security Measures

Abstract

The rapid advancement of technology and its deep involvement in business, has triggered the need of recent security methods to preserve valuable assets. Experts and well-trained employees play the main role in successfully safekeeping these assets. A Saudi branch of an international corporation was selected to conduct an Information Systems (IS) Audit, to find whether the branch applies the appropriate controls that maintain its security. To do so, the auditors followed ISACA audit process. The results were collected by interviewing the IT manager on intermittent intervals over a period of three months. This IS audit aims to measure the security level in this branch, the results demonstrated that the applied security controls are sufficient and effective to protect from security incidents.