ASSURING HOMELAND SECURITY : CONTINUOUS MONITORING , CONTROL & ASSURANCE OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

This paper examines the potential relationships of Auditing and Emergency Preparedness with respect to the domain of the design of Emergency Response Information Systems. It proposes normative objectives for the integration of all these areas in the design of future organizational systems. It also proposes a series of steps to evolve in this direction and create a new interdisciplinary professional community to guide research and development for this field of endeavor.

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