John McKown wrote:

>Have IT management "risk accept" they way you need. Then tell the auditors 
>that. Auditors do not have any authority beyond what management gives them. 

Agreed. Actually, as Ted always said, auditors only recommends. They cannot 
enforce.

>This assumes management has tener cojones.

Spanish for 'having the courage'/'have the balls'. ;-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojones for background info.

When working with auditors and managers, you need all the courage [1] to work 
with them... ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - In a galaxy far far away on a very lonely planet full of hungry aliens 
some centuries ago, I have a really hard time to convince auditors and 
management that I don't need no stinking ADSP in RACF. ;-)

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