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Audit Article

Seven Things to Know Before Automating IT General Control Audits

There are 7 major takeaways from an audit automation process.

20 December 2022
Security Article

Improving Cyberresilience in an Age of Continuous Attacks

It is now more important than ever to constantly develop and mature cybersecurity readiness. A holistic and integrated approach with the right tools can provide a better chance of surviving a cyberattack.

13 December 2022
Audit Article

AI Ethics and the Role of IT Auditors

It is critical that ethics be given careful consideration when designing, operating and auditing AI systems.

6 December 2022
Security Article

How Cyberprofessionals and Threat Actors Have Changed Over the Decades

As threat actors get bolder and more creative, cybersecurity professionals must attempt to stay 1 step ahead.

29 November 2022
Risk Article

How to Use Cyberthreat Intelligence to Proactively Reduce Cyberrisk

The ability to proactively learn about the tactics and capabilities of an attacker provides an excellent opportunity to prevent the attacker from entering the fort or doing any damage to the fort’s walls.

22 November 2022
Security Article

What Makes a Good Cybersecurity Professional?

A shift into a cyber career can be part of an impactful journey into helping protect the world around us.

15 November 2022
Risk Article

The Risky Business of Bots

There are numerous use cases across enterprises where the deployment of bots has resulted in improved efficiency and reduced costs.

8 November 2022
Security Article

Cybersecurity Strategies to Enable Digital Trust

Cybersecurity is an enabler of digital trust and a key success factor of the digital transformation journey.

2 November 2022
Privacy Article

Preparing Organizations for Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law

Technologies are constantly evolving, more devices are being connected to the worldwide network, data are becoming more important than ever, and countries are taking data privacy more seriously, putting data into consideration in jurisdiction strategies.

1 November 2022
Governance Article

How Responsible for IT Governance Is the BoD?

With a fresh look at the importance of the role of the BoD and other stakeholders in IT governance, it is time for boards to take advantage of the opportunity offered by IT governance to create value in their organizations.

26 October 2022
Risk Article

Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Pen Testing

The results of penetration (pen) tests are also worth examining using a risk-based approach.

24 October 2022
Security Article

How to Create an Enterprise OT Cybersecurity Program

As the importance of cybersecurity grows in the public eye, many organizations are considering leveling up their security postures with operational technology (OT) cybersecurity programs.

20 October 2022
Risk Article

Higher Education, the Pandemic and the Need to Strengthen the Risk Framework

There is a need for oversight and controls to be revisited in certain higher education institutions.

13 October 2022
Privacy Article

Detecting Insider Threat Behaviors Using Social Media Platforms

It is important for IT professionals to understand the availability of social media data and methods that can be used to identify possible insider threats using machine learning and the privacy and policy implications pertaining to it.

12 October 2022
Security Article

Cybersecurity Is a Top Priority for Pharmaceutical Organizations

The pharmaceutical industry is taking critical measures to enhance its cybersecurity posture.

11 October 2022
Governance Article

How to Conclude Governance System Design

The dynamics of the external and internal effects on organizations demand a flexible and customized governance system adapted to the specific needs of the organization.

10 October 2022
Audit Article

Co-Sourcing: Self-Educate, Participate, Self-Evaluate and Repeat

As a purposeful partnership with internal or external resources, co-sourcing simultaneously meets enterprise objectives and facilitates upskilling.

7 October 2022
Security Article

Addressing SAP Security Gaps

SAP requires high-level consideration, or critical elements of the business will be vulnerable to malicious cyberactors—with no apparent response.

22 September 2022
Privacy Article

Privacy Considerations During Mergers and Acquisitions

When news was announced that Amazon acquired iRobot, the enterprise that makes Roomba robot vacuums, many privacy advocates expressed concern.

22 September 2022
Security Article

The Circle of Failure: Why the Cybersecurity Industry Does Not Work

The cybersecurity industry has failed. The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming. Anyone who understands that the industry was founded on the fundamental objective of preventing IT systems from breaches and data theft can surely agree that it has failed. Those who do not agree are not paying attention.

15 September 2022
Audit Article

Auditee Buy-In—A Key Component of Effective Audits

In business, auditors are often portrayed as the bad guys. From an external audit perspective, auditors enter an organization with no true relationship with, or connection to, the auditee. The

14 September 2022
Risk Article

Enabling Digital Trust With Canada’s Digital Charter

Data are the lifelines of a digital economy. They are driving forces for innovation, enabling cutting edge research and next generation technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and the Internet of things (IoT).

7 September 2022
Security Article

Taking Security Strategy to the Next Level

In an era of rampant ransomware and other malicious cyberattacks, it has never been more important to double down on cybersecurity analysis and strategy.

2 September 2022
Governance Article

GRC Programming: The Third-Party Security Web

Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are growing disciplines with continuously changing identities.

29 August 2022
Risk Article

The Key(s) to Writing Good Risk Statements

To effectively manage risk at an organization, risk must be identified and analyzed by an information systems professional.

26 August 2022
Risk Article

Does Your Organization Need a Security Risk Assessment?

The enterprise risk assessment and enterprise risk management processes comprise the heart of the information security framework.

19 August 2022
Security Article

Improved Visibility Means More Effective Security Tools

When it comes to evaluating the efficacy of security tools, the first question many people ask is “How do I know if my enterprise’s security tools are protecting sensitive data?”

17 August 2022
Risk Article

Protecting Your Enterprise and Deterring Fraud in a New Risk Era

As uncertainty persists due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, international cyberthreats, inflation and a looming recession, it is clear that the world has entered a new era of risk.

9 August 2022
Security Article

The Power of Provenance

While next-generation firewalls, extended detection and response (XDR) and other security solutions do a great job of detecting and thwarting cyberattacks, it is all too common for a sneaky or camouflaged threat to slip through into the network.

28 July 2022
Security Article

SaaS Security Risk and Challenges

The hybrid work model imposed by organizations during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered many enterprises to accelerate moves to cloud-based services for better resilience and efficiency.

26 July 2022
Risk Article

What Makes Risk Assessments So Unpleasant and How to Change That

“I would love to complete a security risk assessment,” said no one, ever. Many people would agree that performing and reviewing security risk assessments are not particularly enjoyable, especially for IT and security teams that are already overworked, understaffed and burned out.

22 July 2022
Emerging Technology Article

Mitigating Cryptocurrency’s Carbon Footprint

In today’s rapidly evolving finance industry, organizations can either change and thrive or fall behind the market competition. One of the most discussed evolving trends in finance is cryptocurrency.

15 July 2022
Audit Article

The Evolution of Internal Audit in a Digital-First Environment

When leaders at a new digital bank were putting together a job description for their first chief audit executive (CAE), they knew they were looking for more than a candidate who could perform conventional internal audit functions.

13 July 2022
Risk Article

How Enterprises Can Leverage Incident Reporting

Incident reporting plays a vital role in strengthening the internal controls necessary for an organization to operate properly. An incident is defined as “[A] nonstandard operation which causes interruption or reduction in quality of service.”

11 July 2022
Audit Article

Preparing Your First Supplier Audit Plan

Organizations outsource processes and services for a variety of reasons: to cut costs, preserve resources, make room for growth and remain competitive in their industries.

7 July 2022
Audit Article

Now Is the Time for IT Auditors to Perform Advisory Pre-Implementation Reviews

Demand for digital transformation is increasing as enterprises endeavor to offer more innovative products or services and modernize legacy IT environments.

5 July 2022
Emerging Technology Article

The Case for Outcome-Based Cybersecurity: A Data-Focused Shift in Cybersecurity Management

The challenges faced by today’s cybersecurity practitioners are well documented, however, the situation may be worse than described.

1 July 2022
Security Article

Writing a Charter for an Enterprise Security Operations Center

The security operations center (SOC) is the heart of information security for medium- to large-sized organizations. It ensures organizational cyber well-being by monitoring the infrastructure and managing its cyberhealth.

30 June 2022
Security Article

Why (and How to) Dispose of Digital Data

The stakes are too high for organizations not to comply with data privacy regulations. For example, noncompliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can result in a fine of up to €10 million or up to 2% of the organization’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.

22 June 2022
Audit Article

The Repetitive History of IT Audit Outcomes

While the term “IT audit” may be defined differently across organizations based on industry requirements and their applicable frameworks, the outcomes of such audits are often fairly predictable.

15 June 2022
Security Article

The Digital Gold Rush: Football, Ransomware and the Bottom Line

The San Francisco 49ers team, one of the NFL’s 32 professional football teams, was hit by a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) faction called BlackByte.

3 June 2022
Risk Article

The New Global Risk Profile

The Russia–Ukraine War has plunged the entire world into a new risk landscape, especially organizations that already faced high levels of risk.

2 June 2022
Security Article

Performing User Access Reviews to Improve Enterprise Security

Security leaders can enhance security at their enterprises by conducting frequent and thorough user access reviews.

20 May 2022
Risk Article

Performing an Information Security and Privacy Risk Assessment

Enterprise information security and privacy professionals are responsible for identifying information security and privacy gaps in information management systems and processes.

18 May 2022
Governance Article

Maximizing the Benefits of DevOps Using COBIT

If adopted properly, Agile and DevOps practices can result in improvements in objective software development metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and mean time to recover (MTTR).

11 May 2022
Security Article

Basics for Improving the Safety of Your Organization's Data

The world is currently experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), a result of which has been the innovation of big data.

4 May 2022
Emerging Technology Article

Benefits of Adopting Secure Access Service Edge for Operational Technology Security

Traditional operational technology (OT) networks are built based on the rigid 6-level (level 0 to level 5) hierarchical Purdue model, which has worked well for the last few decades.

28 April 2022
Security Article

Decoding CUI—a Highly Valued Data Type at Risk

Governments often create or own information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls consistent with applicable laws, regulations and governmentwide policies. In the United States, this type of information is referred to as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

25 April 2022
Security Article

The Impact of People on Today’s Information Security Landscape

There is much written about long lists of cybersecurity problems (most of which practitioners may already be aware) or even potential solutions, so perhaps it is beneficial to take a moment to reflect on how the state of information security has changed over the years.

22 April 2022
Risk Article

How to Develop and Execute a Rigorous Data Backup and Recovery Strategy

When approximately 22 terabytes (TB) of Dallas Police Department (DPD) (Texas, USA) data were accidentally deleted during a cloud migration in March 2021, ultimately only 14 TB could be recovered, affecting myriad case files and prosecutorial actions.

18 April 2022
Risk Article

Achieving Effective Cloud Risk Management

Cloud technology has leaped to the forefront of the technological world in the last 2 decades. One would be hard pressed to find an enterprise that has not implemented cloud technology in some form or another.

13 April 2022
Security Article

Where Privacy Meets Security

In a world where data are pervasive and increasingly connected, for security professionals, protecting the privacy of individuals and organizations could be compared to trying to put an octopus into a string bag: a constantly changing, wriggly challenge.

11 April 2022
Audit Article

Essentials for an Effective Cybersecurity Audit

Cybersecurity has become a pressing issue worldwide, thereby necessitating robust auditing procedures to provide assurance to senior management and boards of directors (BoDs).

8 April 2022
Risk Article

Concepts to Consider When Acquiring “The Little Guy”

Throughout the last decade, there has been an increase in cyberattacks targeting small- and medium-size enterprises with a myriad of techniques and payloads, and more than 80% of enterprise owners know they are at risk.

6 April 2022
Privacy Article

Data Privacy: From Compliance to Trust

Organizations are looking to prioritize their users’ privacy notices and policies not just to protect their value and to be compliant with existing laws, but also to provide something that is the holy grail for a product: trust.

4 April 2022
Risk Article

Cybersecurity and Third-Party Supplier Risk

Enterprises today are being driven to adopt technology at an unprecedented pace as society witnesses what could be referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This technological adoption has been driven by factors such as the quest for efficiency, technology...

1 April 2022
Security Article

The NATO Cyberresponse Dilemma

It should come as no surprise that the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) finds itself in a bit of a legal and procedural dilemma regarding response efforts and capabilities to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

30 March 2022
Audit Article

An Integrated Approach to Security Audits

A cyberattack can be devastating to any organization because it compromises sensitive data and, as a result, the financial position, strategic vision, and more important, the trust and credibility that the enterprise has built over the years.

23 March 2022
Emerging Technology Article

Digital Realities: Future Potentials and Use Cases

Humans are a curious species, and it is part of our nature to ponder the future. We are hardwired to find patterns, so we often use the past to predict what will emerge in the future.

22 March 2022
Privacy Article

Educated and Empowered Data Subjects: A Privacy Prerequisite

US lawmakers recently introduced a bill seeking to improve transparency of terms of service agreements.

9 March 2022
Security Article

Courage Under Fire

Most people recognize that humans are fallible, but this fact can have dire consequences for those whose jobs entail protecting life or assets. Within the cyber realm, insiders are often responsible for cybersecurity incidents, resulting in a US billion-dollar security awareness computer-based training market.

23 February 2022
Emerging Technology Article

Ethical Emerging Technologists

Cybersecurity professionals aim to help organizations protect their information and IT infrastructures. Their main purpose is to avoid negative impacts, not only to their clients’ enterprises, but also to their clients’ and users’ lives.

15 February 2022
Security Article

Using a Team Approach in the New Year to Face the Future

Anticipating how the world of technology will evolve and change is not only a goal for economists, investors and power players in the stock market, but for cyberentrepreneurs, risk managers, IT professionals, chief information security officers (CISOs) and chief security officers (CSOs).

9 February 2022
Governance Article

Using COBIT for Value-Based Direction Setting

Every organization goes through a phase in its life cycle that leaves it with 2 options: transform or decline.

1 February 2022
Security Article

US DoD Launches Comprehensive CMMC 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework

Cybersecurity is only as good as an organization’s weakest link. Increasingly, the weakest link is the cyber supply chain.

25 January 2022
Security Article

Cybersecurity Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

I freely admit I borrowed my title from former US Senator Al Franken’s 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. But I think it is time we as security professionals take a good hard look at ourselves and admit all the ways that we are lying…to OURSELVES!

18 January 2022
Security Article

A Brief History of the Cybersecurity Profession

Cybersecurity careers are in high demand, but a closer look at the timeline of network technology and the Internet reveals that this has virtually always been the case.

11 January 2022