Workforce and Workplace 2025

On 11 March 2020, just two months after the initial cases were uncovered in Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Eight days later, the US State of California became the first state to issue a stay-at-home order, requiring...

The May 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that crippled fuel delivery for several days in the southeast region of the United States was not the first time US enterprises have been held hostage by criminal hackers—and it will not be the last.

Many organizations suffer from being unaware of their levels of cyberrisk and lack business engagement in cybertechnology in general.

When confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) were established as the main information security attributes in the 1990s, employees around the world were not working from home due to a global pandemic.

In 2018, Trigo Vision was founded by brothers Michael and Daniel Gabay to help grocery stores embrace digital transformation and innovate toward a checkout-free experience for customers. The start-up, based out of Herzliya, Israel, built a technology predicated...

Employees focus on the responsibilities that are listed in their job descriptions. If cybersecurity and privacy responsibilities are not documented in job descriptions, then it is likely that staff members will assume that cybersecurity is not a primary responsibility for them...

If there is a choice between being a phoenix or a hydra dragon, which option would be better? Both are ancient mythical creatures with supernatural powers.

Due to the fast-paced, IT-enabled industrial revolution, new and innovative technologies have become more deeply ingrained in business operations and society in general.

The volume you are reading is the ISACA Journal’s second in its 50th anniversary year. The topic of the workforce is one that has evolved significantly over time—and one that continues to change rapidly.

On 16 September 2021, I was perusing my morning newspaper (well, actually, my morning news website) and was struck by this headline: “The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet.”

It is hard to believe the quarter century mark is just a few years away. The pace of technology has been frenetic since the turn of the century, and the upcoming milestone that 2025 represents is an opportunity to reflect upon what it means for a workforce that has gone from dotcoms to Zoom.

Our organization is contemplating hiring a virtual CISO. How does the role work and how do we ensure that it will be effective and meet business objectives?