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 Agartala-based
South Asian Management Techno-logies (www.pgdisa.org) in collaboration
with Tripura University, has recently introduced a one-year PG Diploma
course in Information System (IS) Audit. The company claims that
this is the first university affiliated course in IS Audit in the
country.
Veena Hingarh, director of South Asian Management
Technologies, said: ‘The company entered into a MoU with the
Tripura University, wherein the varsity certified the course, making
it the first such university course in the country.”
The one-year programme is for graduates with
exposure to computers. This is offered under off-campus mode to
suit the requirement of working professionals. The course is completely
paperless and is offered under the distance education platform.
In recognition of the design and content of the
course, FTMS Academy of Singapore has entered into an agreement
with South Asian Management Tech-nologies to offer it in South East
Asian countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Uganda, Hong Kong
and even the UK. Arif Ahmed, senior director of South Asian Management
Tech-nologies pointed out that this is for the first time an Indian
IT course affiliated to an Indian University is being offered overseas.
Commenting on the need for such a programme,
Ahmed said as the society increases its reliance on information
systems, the requirement is to audit the system to ensure that the
information assets of the organisation is being properly safeguarded,
accessed and used. The Information System Auditors perform these
specific functions.
He added that at present there is no formal course
on this subject, apart from a programme offered by a US based institution,
which is expensive. South Asian Management Technolo-gies has introduced
the course and chose the underdeveloped state of Tripura as the
base for its operation.
The Tripura Unive-rsity would be structuring
the curriculum, conducting the examinations and award the PG diploma.
The Reserve Bank of India has emphasised that
banks and the financial institutions should use qualified information
systems auditors and security professionals, for conducting of Information
System Audit in their organisation.
“We have designed this course on Information
System Audit, keeping in view the emerging requirement of the skill,”
added Ahmed.
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