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Table of Contents:

Internet Organizations
Professional Organizations
Accouting & Auditing
Law & Tax
Federal Government
Computer Security & IT
Investigation
DRP/BCP
Magazines and News
Other ISACA Chapters
Miscellaneous

Internet Organizations

The Internet Society - an organization concerned with the evolution of the Internet and its social, political and technical issues. 5,000 members in 190 countries with a $1.4 million budget.
http://www.isoc.org/

World Wide Web Consortium - an industry group run by MIT for developing standards for the Web. 105 companies worldwide with a $2.9 million budget
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/

Commerce Net - a nonprofit group that works to increase the application of electronic commerce on the Internet. 135 members with a $4 million budget.
http://www.commerce.net/

Online computing encyclopedia
http://webopedia.internet.com/

Professional Organizations

American Institute of CPAs - home pages includes catalogs, links, member information, conferences, research links, and more
http://www.aicpa.org/

Internal Auditing World Wide Web site - site has undergone major changes since moving from Dartmouth Univ. server to the Bitwise Corporation server - site is devoted to all aspects of Internal Auditing
http://www.bitwise.net/iawww/

Information Systems Audit and Control headquarters web site
http://www.isaca.org/

Healthcare Financial Management Association - information on the association, publications, programs, groups, etc.
http://www.hfma.org/

Information Management Forum - association of international executives looking at the issues of implementing information technology for strategic business use. Also trends, abstracts, presentation summaries, etc.
http://www.infomgmtforum.com/

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) web site - the largest and oldest scientific and educational computer society - contains a special interest group (SIG) for security, audit and control.
http://www.acm.org/

American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) web site - mostly good for the number of links the site has to many different sites on many different topics.
http://www.quality.org/

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA) the leading publisher of business and management information. Not many links but if you're looking for publications on these topics may want to check out the listings at the site.
http://www.ioma.com/index.html

Software Publishers Association Forum - SPA talks about membership, activities and software piracy and licensing
http://www.spa.org/spa_ov.htm

Business Software Alliance - BSA talks about membership, activities and software piracy and licensing.
http://www.bsa.org/

Accounting & Auditing

Audit Net Resource lists and home page.
http://www.unf.edu/students/jmayer/account.html

Auditors Sharing Audit Programs - good place to start if you don't know how to start that audit program
http://all.net/books/audit.old/top.html

The Anet site (Australia) maintains archives of mailing lists and a variety of accounting and auditing resources. The site will help you subscribe to the mailing lists as well.
http://www.csu.edu.au/anet/

Though not really an audit site - very useful is Brint - the premier network of business, technology and knowledge management.
http://www.brint.com/

Law & Tax

Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html

Internal Revenue Service
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/

FindLaw
http://findlaw.com/

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

House of Representatives Internet Law Library
http://law.house.gov/

Cornell's Legal Information Institute
http://www.law/cornell.edu/

Information Law Web - understand your rights in information age - fully searchable by lawyers, links etc
http://seamless.com/

Federal Government

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia - for those who missed the Commissioner's presentation at the April 1999 Chapter Meeting - check out the website and its resources.
http://www.oipcbc.org/

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Year 2000 Banking Regs
http://www.ffiec.gov/y2k/

Federal Reserve Board Year 2000 site
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/y2k/

Securities and Exchange Commission - Edgar Database site
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/y2k/

FedWorld over 35 federal government BBSs including GAO's Office of Policy and the Office of Management and Budget.
http://www.fedworld.gov/

Finance Net - a network of professional government financial management organizations, agencies, and departments. Share knowledge, experience, resources, etc. Also maintain UseNet news group and emailing list.
http://www.financenet.gov/

Computer Security & IT

One of the largest archives of computer security resources around - covers UNIX, DOS and Windows. Very technical, educational workpapers
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/

Tutorials and primers on computer hardware, OSs, languages, etc
http://www.helpsite.com/

Development programming language site with technical guides
http://www.devx.com/

The world of Information Systems
http://www.isworld.org/

The Information Technology Professional's Resource Center - a guide to educational sites on all aspects of computer networking
http://www.itprc.com/

Linux booster sites
http://www.linux.org/
http://www.metalab.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html

Huge index of security and hacking-related Web sites, mailing lists, newsgroups and Gopher resources - this is the Netsurfer Digest's home page.
http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/v01/01/resource/index.html

UNIX Reference Desk - good resource for all levels of the UNIX user.
http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html

An Internet security assurance services company
http://www.icsa.net/

Computer Security Institute - international organization for training and information of computer security professionals - broad coverage of all computer security issues.
http://www.gocsi.com/

LAN Security Guidelines - checklists and hints for reviewing LAN security.
http://www.utoronto.ca/security/LAN.htm

2600 the magazine for hackers
http://www.2600.com/

The coming information war and two sites trying to stop it J
http://www.warroomresearch.com/
http://www.infoward.com/

Investigation

Find people or companies by name, address or phone numer
http://www.yahoo.com/search/people
http://www.four11.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.reference.com/
http://www.bigfoot.com/

And a favorite
http://www.knowx.com/

So you want to be a private investigator
http://www.echotech.com/pi.htm

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planing

Disaster Recovery Journal site - good information site with links to providers as well as other industry information.
http://www.drj.com

Magazines and News Services

CIO Magazine, high level issues
http://www.cio.com/

Dow Jones Interactive
http://nrstg2s.djnr.com/

Overall newsource with technology articles requires free registration
http://nytimes.com/

Infoworld Magazine followed by the Infoworld Security Corner area.
http://www.infoworld.com/
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/links/security_corner.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/News_and_Media/Magazines/

Worldwide links to magazines and newspapers
http://www.webovision.com/media/sd/pubnmail.html

Other ISACA Chapters

New Jersey
www.njisaca.org

Miscellaneous

Travel information for 100s of cities
http://www.city.net/

Telephone area code lookup
http://www.555-1212.com/aclookup.html

Weather forecasts nationwide
http://www.intellicast.com/