auditing
Key challenges impacting IT audit pros navigating an evolving risk landscape
Protiviti and ISACA surveyed 2,252 chief audit executives (CAEs), internal audit professionals and IT audit vice presidents and directors worldwide. Asked to identify their …
70% of presidential campaigns fail to provide adequate online privacy and security protections
An alarming 70% of the campaign websites reviewed in the OTA 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit failed to meet OTA’s privacy and security standards – potentially exposing …
64% of IT decision makers have reported a breach in their ERP systems in the past 24 months
ERP applications are ‘critical’ to business operations, according to the IDC survey of 430 IT decision makers. ERP-related breach Sixty-four percent of the 191 decision makers …
Being compliant with laws and regulations is not a guarantee against data breaches
Compliance is not a guarantee against data breaches. These are the results of the Advisera survey carried out with 605 respondents, coming from countries on five continents, …
How security programs and breach history influence company valuations
96% of cybersecurity professionals indicated that cybersecurity readiness factors into the calculation when they are assessing the overall monetary value of a potential …
The use of SOX-specific solutions has more than doubled since last year
There’s a growing demand for advanced technologies to streamline Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance, according to a survey released by the SOX & Internal Controls …
Cybersecurity, privacy and technologies still top challenges for IT audit teams and leaders
Cybersecurity, privacy and technologies—from mission-critical to digitally transformative—top the list of challenges IT audit teams and leaders grapple with every day, …
Nearly two-thirds of organizations say tech skills gap is impacting IT audits
Technologies such as AI are reshaping the future of IT auditors, but auditors are largely optimistic about the future, according to new research from ISACA. In the Future of …
The percentage of open source code in proprietary apps is rising
The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary applications keeps rising and with it the risk of those apps being compromised by attackers leveraging …
IT audit best practices: Technological changes give rise to new risks
IT security and privacy, IT governance and risk management, regulatory compliance, emerging technology and cloud computing are the key issues impacting IT audit plans in 2018, …
Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps
When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and …
Soon, organizations will be valued on their information portfolios
By 2021, the prevalence of equity analysts valuing organizations’ information portfolios in valuing businesses themselves will spark formal internal information …