AICPA announces Top Technologies for 2006.Initial results on the AICPA's Top Technologies for 2006 are in, with information security taking the top spot for the fourth year in a row. Four new technologies made the list for the first time this year: assurance and compliance, IT governance, privacy management and spyware detection and removal. Voting was held Nov. 21 to Dec. 9, 2005. For the first time the AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). reached out to ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Rolling Meadows, IL, www.isaca.org) A membership association dedicated to information systems auditing and security. Founded as the EDP Auditors Association in 1969, ISACA provides certification in auditing and security (see CISA and CISM). members along with members of the AICPA IT Section. Through a combination of increased IT Section members and ISACA members, the total number of votes increased to 2,049 from just over 300 last year. Voters were asked to rank the technologies they felt would most influence the accounting profession in the next 12 months from among 39 options. Here are the 10 most important issues named by respondents (details appear in this month's public accounting and government member-segment supplements): 1. Information Security 2. Assurance & Compliance Applications (e.g., SOX (1) (Schema for Object-oriented XML) An XML schema developed by Veo Systems and Muzino Communications, which was submitted to the W3C. SOX is based on DTD, but adds data typing and reuse mechanisms. 404, Enterprise Risk Management) 3. Disaster and Business Continuity Planning Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined 4. IT Governance 5. Privacy Management 6. Digital Identity and Authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. Technologies 7. Wireless Technologies 8. Application and Data Integration 9. Paperless Digital Technologies 10. Spyware Detection and Removal |
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