Table of Contents

Preface. 4

The Perils of Mount Must Read™: Confessions of a Cliff Note Junky. 5

Are you sure I’m in recovery?. 5

I will conquer Mount Must Read™.. 5

Waste no time. 6

Compliance Farm™: Theory of Professional Practice Evolution (Non-linear) 8

What should an Information Systems Auditor eat?. 10

Touchdown! Mount Must Read™ 7, Hometown 0. 11

Blame someone. 11

Legal G-A-P. 11

What I don't know can't hurt me. 12

Please don’t make me go back to high school 15

Good News, they pay people in congress to think. 15

Say "Goodbye" to statute virginity. 17

Give up the white paper crutch. 18

Can someone help me down from my horse?. 19

My Mother told me to say I’m sorry. 19

Basic principals of a well rounded diet 20

How do you keep that stunning figure?. 20

Trade secrets. 21

You can’t make me download! 21

GAO, is that you?. 21

Regarding recovery. 22

Even the score. 22

The diet starts today:  All right today... first thing in the morning…  I mean it this time. 22

Birth records, death certificates and standards euthanasia. 23

If it makes sense, it exists. 23

A trip to the Standards Mall 24

Lowest Common Denominator 25

How low can you go?. 26

The more you know, the less you have to say. 27

Fundamental Five. 27

A simpler selection criteria. 28

How did I miss the Common Criteria?. 29

These are not Cliff Notes. 30

Seems like a Schema to me. 33

Where are you taking me?. 35

Honest Doc, I looked everywhere.  No expiration date. 36

Darker and deeper 36

Sucked in by detail 37

Get to higher ground. 37

Open the computer bay, HAL. 37

Scope. 38

The Classification Framework. 40

Naked without our tools. 41

Buyer beware. 41

Second greatest hook of all time. 41

COTS alone can’t save us. 42

Process alone can’t save us. 42

Factors affecting world trade: 44

Birth announcement 45

The buddy system.. 45

Enough about them, let’s talk about us. 46

Say it ain’t so. 47

Did you happen to notice where I left a half million auditors?. 47

Found them! 47

A problem not owned equals a problem not solved. 48

You want me to kill them now?  (But they're so cute!) 48

I don’t want a baby brother.  Tell the stork to bring ideas. 50

Competition is the spice of life. 52

Get the data and proportionality. 53

Does the punishment fit the crime?. 54

Do you mind one last question?. 54

Why didn’t I write any of that?. 56

Conclusion: 57

Appendix A: Database and Ontology. 58

Appendix B: Must Read's™ “Security and Risk Management” 60

Bibliography. 62



 

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