The development and integration of integrity and internal control
mechanisms into information system infrastructures is a challenge for
researchers, IT personnel and auditors. Since its beginning in 1997, the
IICIS international working conference has focused on the following
questions: what precisely do business managers need in order to have
confidence in the integrity of their information systems and their data
and what are the challenges IT industry is facing in ensuring this
integrity; what are the status and directions of research and
development in the area of integrity and internal control; where are the
gaps between business needs on the one hand and research / development
on the other; what needs to be done to bridge these gaps. This sixth
volume of IICIS papers, like the previous ones, contains interesting and
valuable contributions to finding the answers to the above questions. We
want to recommend this book to security specialists, IT auditors and
researchers who want to learn more about the business concerns related
to integrity. Those same security specialists, IT auditors and
researchers will also value this book for the papers presenting research
into new techniques and methods for obtaining the desired level of
integrity.