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ISACA Journal Editorial Calendar
Volume 1, 2026 | January/February
Navigating the Cyber Frontier
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 19 September 2025
**Articles Finalized: 17 October 2025
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 21 November 2025
Art Due: 28 November 2025
Mail Date
1 January 2026
- The impact of AI on cybersecurity, including AI-enhanced threats and AI-enabled cybersecurity measures
- Cybersecurity on the offense (offensive cybersecurity measures)
- Cybersecurity economics and value-at-risk monitoring
- Globalization’s impact on cybersecurity; creating a centralized global repository of vulnerabilities
- Auditing cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity vendor management/assessment
- Cyberrisk management based on threat intelligence
- Application and software security; implementing a secure-by-design approach
- Critical infrastructure cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, and cloud-native operational technology
- Ethical hacking and enterprise security
- The cybersecurity team’s role in organizational structure and business strategy
Volume 2, 2026 | March/April
Building Trust in the Supply Chain
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 17 November 2025
**Articles Finalized: 19 December 2025
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 23 January 2026
Art Due: 30 January 2026
Mail Date
2 March 2026
- Supply chain management and evolution
- Vendor evaluation, selection, and management
- Third-party cyberresilience
- Multicloud architecture
- Investment prioritization; the cybersecurity/technology portfolio
- Audit’s role in vendor management; third-party assurance
- Fraud and threat monitoring
- Mergers and acquisitions in an evolving landscape
- The software supply chain; developing and maintaining an SBOM
- Cross-border vendor operations, particularly from privacy, compliance, and security perspectives
- Blockchain governance and the move toward decentralized models
Volume 3, 2026 | May/June
The Evolution of Work
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 19 January 2026
**Articles Finalized: 20 February 2026
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 20 March 2026
Art Due: 27 March 2026
Mail Date
1 May 2026
- Impact of AI on entry-level roles and related job loss/gain
- Cognitive harm of AI/the impact of AI on communication and soft skills
- Upskilling for new/emerging technologies
- Non-technical skillsets for auditors
- AI-driven test automation
- Security awareness training in a rapidly changing landscape
- Navigating geographic shifts and trends in hiring and incentivizing staff (offshoring, regional/shifting infrastructure investments, etc.)
- Compliance in a global digital ecosystem
- The changing role of the CISO/soft skills for leadership/leading in an evolving environment
- Security implications of remote work and return-to-office mandates
Volume 4, 2026 | July/August
The Dual Nature of Data
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 20 March 2026
**Articles Finalized: 17 April 2026
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 22 May 2026
Art Due: 29 May 2026
Mail Date
1 July 2026
- Identifying and mitigating bias in learning models
- AI data breaches and identity theft/cloning
- Privacy as a competitive advantage
- Purpose limitation, consent tagging and metadata tracking—ensuring that consents/limitations flow with data through systems
- Governing data between disparate systems and preventing unintended use of data
- Revising cryptographic standards and managing long-term data risk
- Data lineage, provenance, storage and destruction
- Intellectual property protection
- Quantum technology; store now, decrypt later strategy
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Distributed ledger technologies
Volume 5, 2026 | September/October
The Fundamentals of Trust
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 18 May 2026
**Articles Finalized: 19 June 2026
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 24 July 2026
Art Due: 31 July 2026
Mail Date
1 September 2026
- Classic role-based access control (RBAC)
- Business continuity and resilience
- Board reporting, governance, and alignment of technology with business strategy
- Physical security threats and controls
- Asset management, inventory, and life cycle
- Audit basics, agile audit, and the evolution of audit roles
- Policy management, alignment, and enforcement
- Decentralized security; moving security into business units
- Addressing and quantifying risk in a rapidly evolving ecosystem
- The role of ethics in digital trust professions
- AI governance (think about new things that should also be fundamental)
- Data classification and privacy-by-design
Volume 6, 2026 | November/December
Transforming Technology
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Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 17 July 2026
**Articles Finalized: 21 August 2026
Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 18 September 2026
Art Due: 25 September 2026
Mail Date
2 November 2026
- Human/AI partnership
- Agentic AI
- Preparing for the quantum revolution
- Ethics and governance of emerging technologies
- Keeping pace with exponential change
- No-code tools/development approach
- Energy resilience and power consumption relating to expanding technology landscape (quantum, AI, and other emerging tech) and proliferation
- Smartgrids and digital connectivity reliance
- Addressing deepfakes, misinformation, and disinformation
- Maintaining resilience and future-proofing in a rapidly evolving environment