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Riemer Brouwer
Booz & Co
Beirut, Lebanon

Riemer Brouwer has over 13 years of experience in IT audit and IT consultancy. Throughout his career, Riemer has specialized in IT reviews that incorporate not only technical viewpoints, but financial/administrative and organizational considerations as well.

A major part of Riemer’s work deals with improving the relationship between IT and business processes in order to optimize and ensure that IT investments are fully beneficial to the core processes of an organization.

Riemer, who is Dutch, worked in The Netherlands for the first six years of his career. This provided him with a solid foundation for, and experience in, IT audit. Currently, he works with Booz & Company in the Middle East in the information security field.

Riemer’s clients are mostly found in the financial industry, which has given him the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of the underlying business processes, knowledge that enhances the quality and depth of IT audit activities. In addition, Riemer has been a leading IT auditor for telecom companies in Lebanon, Syria, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has also worked with local and national governments, airlines, and institutions of higher education.

Riemer has an in-depth knowledge of the challenges surrounding implementation projects. Both in the Middle East and in The Netherlands, Riemer has demonstrated an excellent commitment to achieving solutions that are practical and secure.

	Reviews by Riemer Brouwer

	Secure computer and network systems: modeling, analysis and design Ye N., Wiley Publishing, 2008. 354 pp. Type: Book Many books on network security cover practical, hands-on topics, such as the proper configuration of network devices and setting up network security policies, and provide insights on how to protect network-based services. This work, however,...

	The practice of system and network administration (2nd ed.) Limoncelli T., Hogan C., Chalup S., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007. 1056 pp. Type: Book Although system and network administrators fulfill a crucial role in any information technology (IT) environment, formal education hardly exists. Aspiring administrators are left to self-study, often using technical guides specific to one...

	Security auditing course development Pan Y. Information technology education (Procedding of the 8th ACM SIG-Information Conference on Information Technology Education, Destin, Florida, Oct 18-20, 2007) 259-266, 2007. Type: Proceedings Computer security related courses enjoy the warm interest of students and instructors alike. However, the field of computer security is relatively wide and new, two aspects that make it challenging to develop the much-needed security courses....

	Forensic computing (Practitioner Series) Sammes A., Jenkinson B., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2007. 470 pp. Type: Book The field of computer forensics is enjoying increasing interest from information technology (IT) workers trying to find a niche specialty. Computer forensics easily fits the bill, as it requires a combination of legal, technological, and audit...

	The craft of system security Smith S., Marchesini J., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007. 592 pp. Type: Book, Reviews: (2 of 2) The field of system security has become immensely wide and diversified. Consequently, writing a book about this topic is challenging, to say the least. Smith and Marchesini’s attempt to cover the whole field is a good illustration of...

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