On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, David Fetter<david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Auditors can be a funny breed. > > > > They can, at that, but in this case, they're simply doing the > > normal human thing of trying to figure out whether there's a way > > they can push off their work to someone or something else. In > > this case, they can't. > > Depends what they've been hired to audit exactly - there's a > difference in the way they will attack the IT aspects of a financial > audit versus an IT management audit for example. In my experience, > the former is worse because they are often done by finance people > who will simply box-tick 'verified backups' before reporting to the > board or regulator, unlike an IT auditor who will look at the > systems as a whole and judge the processes based on their technical > merit. Right :) > Anyway - this is pre-beer conference talk... Excellent idea :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
