Education in IT controls at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana

The importance of information technology (IT) controls is increasing, thanks to the security demands of e-commerce. The IT security is just one of the three business requirements for information, as defined by COBIT. The other two requirements are quality requirements and fiduciary requirements [5, pg. 13]. Nevertheless, IT security is often regarded by IT professionals as the most important requirement. White-collar crime, information theft, computer fraud, information abuse and other IT control concerns are getting high visibility with the extensive use of e-commerce [7, pg. B]. A possible reason for this might be that abuses of e-commerce solutions have been largely publicized, while information about internal IT abuses often exist only in dark figures. It has been very common to expect from IT professionals to develop IT solutions that satisfy security requirements.