AUDITING OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR

With the increase of internet usage after the 90s, the world entered the information age and public institutions has to keep up with this era as in every other fields. The most basic concept of knowledge is data. Today, public institutions operate and present many of the data they have in physical environment via the information systems. Public institutions increase the reliability, transparency and correctness of their services by using information technology systems. This situation improves citizen-oriented service. Since the information is generated by processing the data, the management of the data is important. Data is managed by database management systems. The database management system simplifies processes such as store, update and protection of large data sets. The control of critically important database management systems, gives a reasonable assurance on effective, efficient and productive operation of this system. While the public institutions keep up with the information age, they can improve their database management deficiencies, new technology suggestions, and information security awareness effectively by using the audit function. In this study, the audit function of the database management process is discussed in the contextof public institutions, recommendations for risk and finding examples determined in the administrative andtechnical fields are developed and opinions are given on how these recommendations should be monitored