2008 IIA New Zealand Annual Conference was held on 17-19 November 2008 at Westpac Stadium, Wellington.

The theme of this conference was "Wind of Change" - Over 30 speakers (local and international) and panelist contributors discussed current issues in IT Governance, risk and assurance, etc. 

Please visit the IIA NZ's website (http://www.iianz.co.nz/Conference.cfm) for more information about the conference (including presentation materials).

“ISACA Top Business /Technology Issues - Survey Results” report was just released recently. It was conducted globally over three weeks in April and May 2008 with the assistance of audit/assurance, IT and information security managers across the globe. 

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The IT Audit Checklist Series

ISO/IEC 38500, International IT Governance Standard was published in June 2008 and built on the work done by the Australian Standards Institutes who published AS 8015 in 2005.

ISACA has recently released the ITAF™: A Professional Practices Framework for IT Assurance.  As an ISACA member, you can download it from this link:  

The Risk Intelligent IT Internal Auditor

In many organisations, IT IA drifts along with the same audit plan year after year: auditing general computer controls; checking the boxes; performing systems work and auditing UNIX.

Hopefully you are able to find answers to any of your IT compliance-related questions through the source of information as follows (link:http://www.itcinstitute.com/display.aspx?id=3384):

Audit committees in the public sector