WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/ #DOGE #Government #Auditing #Musk #Trump #Politics #Cons #ConJob
‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how #government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/
"federal #auditors with years of #experience... say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual #audit looks like...
“Honestly, comparing real #auditing to what #DOGE is doing, there’s no comparison... None of them are auditors”
@tante problem is that almost all #employers don't want #sustainability, #accessibility and refuse to acknowledge #DueDiligence and #security as well as proper #testing and #auditing as features unless their #CLO literally threatens to resign and sue them personally.
Seen that in real life, no I cannot elaborate for legal reasons!
Chinese authorities have banned the accounting firm PwC for six months and fined it over $56 million for its involvement in the audit of collapsed local property developer Evergrande
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-hands-pwc-6-month-ban-fine-audit-113654622
"Trump Media’s Auditing Firm Charged With ‘Massive Fraud’ By SEC"
by James Farrell for @Forbes
#auditing #trump #investing
One of the weirdest aspect of #EndStageCapitalism is the collapse of #auditing, the lynchpin of investing. Auditors - independent professionals who sign off on a company's finances - are the only way that investors can be sure they're not handing their money over to failing businesses run by crooks.
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Conservatives may deride the #RealityBasedCommunity as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed to remain tethered to reality by two unbreakable fetters: #auditing and #insurance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
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In the 6 years since the #Carillion collapse, while there has been some improvement in regulatory activity around #auditing by the Financial Reporting Authority, its legislative position remains weak, as do its available sanctions against bad practice.
But as Helen Thomas (FT) reminds us the 2018 report into the Carillion which recommend changes & improvement to the regulatory regime, was from a committee chaired by #RachelReeves;
She might actually be in a position to do something, soon?
Computer scientist Keith Burghardt, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research institute of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has been studying #socialmedia for five years, and specifically studying #onlin hate for the last year. His team found that in less than six months, hate speech has significantly increased on Twitter. See the new paper - #Auditing #ElonMusk’s Impact on #HateSpeech and #Bots, quantifies hate and #bots on #Twitter. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.04129.pdf
#introduction
This is the professional account of @PatrickOBeirne
Systems Modelling Ltd, Ireland, provides consultancy in #Microsoft #Excel and #VBA solution development; #training; #data #analysis.
I am chair of the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (EuSpRIG.org), author of XLTest #spreadsheet #auditing add-in (xltest.com), and present on spreadsheet risks at data risk & quality conferences.
#office #macros #automation #productivity #financial #modelling / #modeling #optimization
So, an #introduction, eh?
I'm a recovering #engineer, former CTO, security researcher, and ex-regulator for #ICSsecurity. I'm now the Director of Cyber Risk at Dragos and I teach (and write) for #SANS.
I've had a lucky career-- I've testified before the US Congress and several federal agencies (as well as a few other countries abroad) and have helped hundreds of industrial organizations improve their #OT security. I've helped write a handful of international standards and I have some strong opinions on what "good" looks like for ICS/OT.
I'll usually write/present on:
#cyberrisk #metrics #technical #standards #engineering #safety #auditing #industrial #ICS #IIoT #governance
...and whatever strikes my fancy. My focus over the past 5-10 years has been more board-level, but I spent a large part of my career in a hard hat trying to fix (and break) industrial systems.
That said, if anyone asks me "what do you do for a living?" I usually avoid talking about myself and instead deviate to more important things... like living a healthy, happy life and helping others where I can.
Oh, and memes. I shitpost memes about how absurd our small community can be some times.
Oof. 9,718 characters left. Uhh. Check out my bio here if you want more info: https://www.sans.org/profiles/jason-d-christopher/
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