ISACA Podcast

Topics in Emerging Technology, Governance and Ethics

What are the primary risks associated with the adoption of emerging technologies, particularly during periods of high market volatility and changing governance requirements? We talk with Samuel Zaruba Smith, PhD(c) about his learnings from working in government regulated industries and emerging technology. We deep dive into the problems of business strategy, security, policy, social engineering ethics, and audits within a business environment of emerging technology systems such as Artificial Intelligence and Web3 decentralized technologies. Given the current business landscape of early 2023, changing market conditions and rapidly evolving governance concerns need to be top of the mind for all organizational leaders. Samuel provides insightful recommendations for improving your organizational structure and technology governance to create a more productive, inclusive, and ethical workplace. 

Industry Spotlight - Julia Kanouse

Get to know Chief Membership and Marketing Officer Julia Kanouse as she sits down with childhood best friend and ISACA VP Amanda Raible. The duo discuss everything from leadership to motherhood while competing in Mario Kart! Tune in!

What Is Your IP Address Cybersecurity IQ? The Role of IP Address Data in a Digital World

There are literally thousands of VPN services on the market. Some are undeniably benign, but others offer a slate of features that are friendly to cyber criminals. Keeping your network safe from hackers requires you to understand the VPN market, and make decisions based on your company’s appetite for risk. Fortunately, by analyzing IP address data associated with these devices, security professionals can get access to a wealth of VPN contextual data that helps them distinguish between perfectly legitimate providers and those that turn a blind eye toward crime. In today’s world, it is vital for security professionals to know how to leverage IP address data and its contextual insights to protect enterprise networks.

The Future of Technology Risk: 4 Ways to Build Stakeholder Trust in the Technology Risk Imperative

Today, the pace of change across industries is quicker than ever before. Economic, political, and social unrest and a global climate crisis have placed unprecedented disruption and pressures on organizations looking to navigate a rapidly changing environment.

Firms are being out-innovated and entire industries are being disrupted in a matter of months or years, as opposed to decades. Shifting regulations, data as an asset, dynamic customer behavior and employee expectations of continued flexibility in a more virtual workplace add to the challenge.

Technology risk and compliance needs to adjust to this new reality. The strategy and value of an organization’s technology risk management are becoming essential to build and secure stakeholder trust. That means moving closer to the point where the risk events occur and using preventative, detective, and automated controls as much as possible.

In this podcast, Beth McKenney, a Principal in the KPMG Technology Risk service network, offers a game plan for companies to meet these today’s challenges with an eye on building stakeholder trust. That means having a proactive, rather than a reactive, approach to risk management.

Measuring Security Resilience from the Lens of the Adversary Community

In a world where adversaries are constantly adapting to improve tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), it is crucial to understand the unique traits and goals of various types of adversaries that actively seek to cause harm to an organization. The personification of these threats will ultimately help measure resilience against specific threat actors, identify investment and hardening opportunities, and improve trust with customers.

In this podcast, Daniel Ventura, Manager of Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), shares insight into Adobe’s approach to adversary personification as well as provides guidance on how you can better measure the security resilience of your products. He’ll also talk about Adobe’s bug bounty program which helps his team identify new trends in adversary interest and defend against real incident response events.

Risky Business – Jon Brandt

For the average person, life moves quickly. But for business leaders and anyone involved in any aspect of IT, the pace at which technology is changing is overwhelming. Technology can help businesses and individuals do more with less and increase profit margins. However, technological advances carry tremendous risk and increase the criticality of risk management. No longer can business and personal use of technology be viewed in siloes. ISACAs Director of Professional Practices and Innovation, Jon Brandt, is joined by Ryan Cloutier as they discuss some of the latest headlines and impact to intellectual property.

Building Digital Trust Through Advocacy

If you thought ISACA was only about certification and education, get ready to listen to this podcast and see how ISACA advocates for the IT Audit and Risk Management professions! Join Cindy Baxter, author of the Audit in Practice column in the ISACA Journal, as she interviews two members of the ISACA New England Board of Directors who attended ISACA’s Hill Day in Washington DC.  Hear how they met with their government representatives and with ISACA’s help, discussed legislation that supports our profession!  It’s an opportunity to think about the impacts you can have in your own back yard and with civic leaders!

Advertising Information Security

In this episode, executive principal at Risk Masters International’s Steven Ross discusses why vendors of IT products and services are advertising information security, why businesses are not advertising their security and how to use information security as a component of organizations’ public images with host Safia Kazi.

Rethinking Identity Governance

SaaS is eating the world even more than we think. Companies are dealing with SaaS sprawl: hundreds of apps distributed across different owners that store sensitive data and which are used to orchestrate critical business workflows. Security-minded teams are turning to external compliance frameworks to help protect their customers and data.
 
However, traditional identity governance controls have fallen short of delivering real security outcomes in this digital-first world. They’re missing a critical piece: automation. In this episode, ConductorOne’s CEO and Co-Founder, Alex Bovee joins this episode to discuss why we need to change the way we think about compliance and risk and what a security-led governance program could look like.

Learn more about ConductorOne at https://www.linkedin.com/company/conductorone/ or https://www.conductorone.com/blog/automating-compliance-controls-least-privilege-access/

2023: The Year of Risk

A review of the events of 2022 shows that 2023 will not be the year of dire new cyber attacks waged by hoodie-wearing cyber criminals or office-bound nation-state APTs. Instead, 2023 will be when multiple regulatory bodies express their mounting frustration with public and private companies' collective inability to reduce the volume and impact of prior cyber attacks.  

Tune into this ISACA Episode as Hyperproof’s Field CISO, Kayne McGladrey, speaks with ISACA’s Jeff Champion on how 2023 will be the year of risk.  

Learn more about Hyperproof at:  

https://twitter.com/Hyperproof 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperproof/ 

https://www.instagram.com/hyperproof/ 

Additional Hyperproof Resources:  

https://hyperproof.io/resource/the-ultimate-guide-to-enterprise-risk-management/ 

https://www.isaca.org/resources/news-and-trends/isaca-now-blog/2022/three-key-predictions-for-2023-the-year-of-risk 

https://hyperproof.io/resource/risk-management-software-buyer-guide/ 

https://hyperproof.io/case-studies/pythian-uses-hyperproof-to-get-time-back-and-improve-its-risk-management-maturity/