This fourth volume in the series "Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems" is a state-of-the-art collection of papers in the area of integrity within information systems and the relationship between this and the overall internal control systems that are established in organizations to support corporate governance codes. The volume represents a continuation ofthe dialogue between information security specialists, internal control specialists and the business community. The objectives of this dialogue are: to present methods and techniques that will help business achieve the desired level of integrity in information systems and data; to present the results of research that may in future be used to increase the level of integrity or help management maintain the desired level of integrity; to investigate the shortcomings in the technologies presently in use, shortcomings that require attention in order to protect the integrity of systems in general.
The papers are from the Fourth International Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Brussels, Belgium in November 2001.