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Volume 5, 2025 | September/October

Compliance Conundrum

Dates

Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 16 May 2025
**Articles Finalized: 17 June 2025

Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 23 July 2025
Art Due: 30 July 2025

Mail Date
3 September 2025

  • Globalization and the regulatory landscape
  • Regulatory changes and conflicts (CCPA, CMMC, GDPR, DORA, AI Act, India DPDP, etc.)
  • Framework and regulatory integration and enablement using CMMI
  • Enterprise risk management for global companies
  • Data sovereignty in a connected world
  • nternal policy governance and compliance
  • Auditing in a global environment (compliance with myriad regulations, auditing across geographic boundaries)
  • The cost of compliance
  • Compliance risk and risk mitigation
  • Relationship between digital trust and compliance

Volume 6, 2025 | November/December

Tomorrow's Tech, Today

Dates

Author-Related Dates
*Drafts Due: 18 July 2025
**Articles Finalized: 19 August 2025

Advertising-Related Dates
Insertion Due: 19 September 2025
Art Due: 26 September 2025

Mail Date
1 November 2025

  • Rapid adoption of IoT and edge computing and related vulnerabilities and risk
  • Post-quantum and quantum-resilient cryptography
  • Designing and assessing quantum-safe solutions
  • Quantum-resilient architecture
  • Biometrics, hardware devices, and attribute-based authentication
  • 5G/6G network vulnerabilities and safeguarding the future of connectivity
  • Combating the limitations of legacy systems
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies
  • Blockchain risk and audit
  • The role of audit in a rapidly evolving technical landscape

Volume 1, 2026 | January/February

Navigating the Cyber Frontier

Dates

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

Dates

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

Dates

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

Dates

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

Dates

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

Dates

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