The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a qualified opinion on the internal controls of the computerized information systems of the Property Registry of Puerto Rico. A qualified opinion is issued when the noncompliances, individually or together, are significant but not pervasive.
The Report reveals that as of June 17, 2016, the Information Technology Office did not make a copy of the repository of the images of the registration folios and of the auxiliary books of the Registry on an external medium outside the premises of the Department. This situation, contrary to the Policy on the Security of Information Systems of Circular Letter 77-05, may cause that, should an emergency occur in the Information Technology Office, the Department of Justice cannot use the repository of the images created at a cost of $5.2 million.
The two-finding audit indicates that the Internal Audit Office of the Department of Justice had not performed audits of the controls and operations of the computerized information systems of the Registry. A similar situation had been noted in reports CPED-95-12 of June 30, 1995 and in TI-03-15 of June 19, 2003. In professional practice, the function of internal audit is to contribute to the improvement of the risk management and control systems, among others.
The Report covers the period from May 19, 2015 to June 17, 2016.
See Audit Report TI-18-03.
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