Human Element of Risk

Author: Guy Pearce

There should be no doubt that digital transformation is an organizational necessity performed in the interest of maintaining, sustaining and enhancing an enterprise’s relevance to its constituents.

Author: Jack Freund

Too often, well-meaning technology professionals attempt to explain risk to their enterprises and fail to achieve their objective. These professionals fully understand the state of the computing environment and the importance of securing it.

Authors: Dan Blum and Keith Weinbaum

Rock Holdings, Inc., is a US-based holding company which owns several subsidiary companies including Quicken Loans, the US’s largest mortgage lender.

Author: Isaac Kohen

Recent headlines are replete with extremely costly and disruptive examples of insider threats playing a prominent role in high-profile data breaches.

Authors: Visveshwar Ramasubramaniam and Anil Kumar Singh

Third-party risk management is high on the boardroom’s agenda. The business ecosystem is heavily dependent on third-party relationships, and with this dependence comes a responsibility to manage risk.

Author: Thiago de Oliveira Teodoro

Enterprises must deal with a large and constantly growing volume of data, and they require the capacity to manipulate and process this information while protecting data sources.

Author: Steven J. Ross

Here is an unoriginal observation: The Cloud changes everything. Oh, wait, that was the Internet. Whatever. It seems that if it is novel, it changes everything. So the Cloud makes most of us information security professionals unnecessary.

Author: Ian Cooke

In a couple of recent editions of the ISACA Journal (referred to as columns one and two herein), my fellow columnist, Steven J. Ross, made a case whereby he believes that, contrary to the EU General Data Protection Regulation...

Author: Dustin Brewer

The idea that we are all connected via some ethereal or other unknown plane is a belief held by metaphysical enthusiasts and religions all around the world. There is something to be said about the interconnectivity of the human spirit and experience.

Author: K. Brian Kelley

Even in large organizations, it is not unusual to find controls that still involve a great deal of manual effort. In fact, evidence for an attestation may be entirely generated by someone taking screenshots.

Authors: Vasant Raval and Rajesh Sharma

In classical Greek mythology, Daedalus was helplessly watching Icarus, his son, fall to his death. Daedalus, having designed the Minotaur’s Labyrinth, was imprisoned.