ISACA Podcast

This podcast is a practical discussion with two IT Internal Auditors, Frans Geldenhuys and Gustav Silvo, that have automated IT General Controls across their highly diversified and decentralized group. They will share some of the pitfalls they have experienced in their automation roll out and advise on how to avoid or manage these pitfalls with host, Robin Lyons. Check out Frans and Gustav’s full...

Organizational culture is crucial because it shapes behaviors and attitudes in the workplace, which can profoundly impact operations and overall success. However, it is sometimes difficult for CISOs and other infosec managers to fully understand their culture because they are inside it constantly. In this ISACA Podcast episode, author and journalist Mark Tarallo chats with ISACA's Safia Kazi about...

What are the primary risks associated with the adoption of emerging technologies, particularly during periods of high market volatility and changing governance requirements? We talk with Samuel Zaruba Smith, PhD(c) about his learnings from working in government regulated industries and emerging technology. We deep dive into the problems of business strategy, security, policy, social engineering et...

Get to know Chief Membership and Marketing Officer Julia Kanouse as she sits down with childhood best friend and ISACA VP Amanda Raible. The duo discuss everything from leadership to motherhood while competing in Mario Kart! Tune in!

There are literally thousands of VPN services on the market. Some are undeniably benign, but others offer a slate of features that are friendly to cyber criminals. Keeping your network safe from hackers requires you to understand the VPN market, and make decisions based on your company’s appetite for risk. Fortunately, by analyzing IP address data associated with these devices, security profession...

Today, the pace of change across industries is quicker than ever before. Economic, political, and social unrest and a global climate crisis have placed unprecedented disruption and pressures on organizations looking to navigate a rapidly changing environment. Firms are being out-innovated and entire industries are being disrupted in a matter of months or years, as opposed to decades. Shifting regu...

In a world where adversaries are constantly adapting to improve tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), it is crucial to understand the unique traits and goals of various types of adversaries that actively seek to cause harm to an organization. The personification of these threats will ultimately help measure resilience against specific threat actors, identify investment and hardening opportun...

For the average person, life moves quickly. But for business leaders and anyone involved in any aspect of IT, the pace at which technology is changing is overwhelming. Technology can help businesses and individuals do more with less and increase profit margins. However, technological advances carry tremendous risk and increase the criticality of risk management. No longer can business and personal...

If you thought ISACA was only about certification and education, get ready to listen to this podcast and see how ISACA advocates for the IT Audit and Risk Management professions! Join Cindy Baxter, author of the Audit in Practice column in the ISACA Journal, as she interviews two members of the ISACA New England Board of Directors who attended ISACA’s Hill Day in Washington DC.  Hear how they met...

In this episode, executive principal at Risk Masters International’s Steven Ross discusses why vendors of IT products and services are advertising information security, why businesses are not advertising their security and how to use information security as a component of organizations’ public images with host Safia Kazi.

SaaS is eating the world even more than we think. Companies are dealing with SaaS sprawl: hundreds of apps distributed across different owners that store sensitive data and which are used to orchestrate critical business workflows. Security-minded teams are turning to external compliance frameworks to help protect their customers and data.   However, traditional identity governance controls have f...

A review of the events of 2022 shows that 2023 will not be the year of dire new cyber attacks waged by hoodie-wearing cyber criminals or office-bound nation-state APTs. Instead, 2023 will be when multiple regulatory bodies express their mounting frustration with public and private companies' collective inability to reduce the volume and impact of prior cyber attacks.   Tune into this ISACA Episode...

We live in the age of continuous compromise. This podcast dives into why so many organizations continue to be breached even after spending money on cybersecurity point solutions. Many organizations gravitate towards silver bullet solutions without understanding the threat and impact. In this ISACA Podcast episode, Chris McGown speaks to Rex Johnson and Hamlet Khodaverdian about why a holistic and...

A strong audit and assurance function is critical to achieving digital trust in an organization. This conversation spotlights audit's role in digital trust and outlines key priorities. It also shares new ISACA resources for auditors. For more information, go to https://isaca.org/digital-trust

ISACA's Chris Dimitriadis and the US GAO's Nick Marinos discuss the current state of critical infrastructure security, escalating threats and how to better prepare. For more information check out www.isaca.org/heightened-threats

Paul Philips and Lisa Young will discuss how risk scenarios help decision-makers understand how certain events can impact organizational strategy and objectives. Good risk scenario building is a skill and can take some time to truly master. Paul and Lisa will provide actionable advice on building the best possible scenarios to help your organization better manage risk For more information check ou...

Compliance with the world’s ever-increasing list of privacy laws can be a tricky undertaking for any organization, but by taking a few simple steps, you can begin to mature your privacy program from a series of check-box exercises into an intelligent compliance program that can help organizations to build consumer trust and protect brand reputation. Join this conversation with OneTrust DPO Linda T...

Career coach Caitlin McGaw will share her top tips for young professionals and career changes on how to launch a successful career in IT audit--from acing your first interview and landing your first job to career resources to help your career continue to grow and thrive. To learn more, check out www.caitlinmcgaw.com 

Learn more at isaca.org/digital-trust 

Privacy Mining will increase because of billions of IoT devices being connected every day. Combined with advanced psychologic research, this can be a very powerful tool for manipulating people's behavior. A Fake reality also poses a big threat to our future of privacy. Software, such as Deep Fakes, has the ability to use someone's facial structure and create fake videos featuring digitally created...

Why do individuals, organizations, institutions, nations, or responsible agents work hard to preserve their personal and enterprise data, personnel information, trade secrets, intellectual properties, technical know-how, or national data, yet easily trade on the individual and enterprise data and national data of others? To understand and answer the question appropriately, one must examine the und...

On National IT Professionals Day, ISACA's Kevin Keh explains how IT professionals can advance digital trust in their organizations and in their industries. Learn more at isaca.org/digital-trust 

Numerous laws and regulations have been passed to protect sensitive information, both at the federal and state level, creating a patchwork of requirements for companies to comply with.  However, with limited resources for cybersecurity investment, this uncoordinated approach has clouded objectives and led to decision paralysis within firms. Could cybersecurity implementation benefit from a Sarbane...

Guy Pearce joins ISACA’s Lisa Villanueva for a conversation about the traps of Data Governance and management. Guy breaks down Lore vs. Data, reasons for not using information for decision-making, and why data is a shared benefit for the organization. Stay tuned until the close to hear Guy’s advice on using metaphors when communicating technical concepts to executive leadership. To read Guy's full...

ISACA’s Jeff Champion welcomes Steven Ross to the ISACA podcast. Steven asks what the effect of Convergence on the Control Community and concludes that everything is connected to every role, and it is becoming risky to have employees siloed within their own practice. He also remarks on how he once wrote an ISACA Journal article about companies creating a role for Chief Security Officer and now tha...