Joel Lanz: Guarding Data

Not too lengthy ago, a $1 billion bank hired the one and the other a CPA firm and a risk management firm to management a security audit, performing penetration ordeals to determine where the weak links were in the bank's computer combination of parts to form a wholes

Taking an extra pace the bank hired CPA Joel Lanz to leadership a security audit. During his assessment, Lanz noted that the bank had outsourced the storage of its clients' data and that penetration testing should have been performed at the vendor's site.

"What I showed (the bank) was rather than contracting for the penetration experiment at its facility, vendor management and oversight was their biggest risk," says Lanz.

IT audit and security is a booming business, benefiting from the interests spurred by last year's Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, relate tos that spurred the five-year-old alone proprietorship to $325,000 in receipts in 2005.

Lanz, who operates his