Assuring Homeland Security: Continuous Monitoring, Control & Assurance of Emergency Preparedness
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This paper examines the potential relationships of Continuous Auditing and Emergency Preparedness to the design, development, and implementation of Emergency Response Management Information Systems (ERMIS). It develops an argument for the integration of emergency response processes and continuous decision process auditing requirements into the system development life cycle of an organization wide ERMIS. Murray Turoff, Michael Chumer, Roxanne Hiltz, Robb Klashner, Michael Alles, Miklos Vasarhelyi, and Alexander Kogan 2 The state of the art in Information Systems, Auditing (i.e. Continuous Auditing), and the Emergency Preparedness requirements of the society are at the right moment for this integration to occur. This integration would provide for new and robust software and system development foundation enhancements in order to satisfy the unique requirements of an ERMIS with respect to use, decision making, implementation, and costs. Such integration would lead to a pervasive deployment of ERMIS and result in a higher state of readiness than exists currently in organizations. A desirable catalyst in the facilitation of this undertaking is the need for general auditing (as an oversight function) of Emergency Response Preparedness for all organizations (termed an EPTrust
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