Body: Audit and fraud prevention professionals operate in silos—internal auditors over here, IT auditors over there and fraud examiners off doing their “police work.” Rarely do these professionals talk with each other, speak the same language or look beyond their cubicle wall to see what’s on the other side. It is tremendously important for us to do better a […]
Body: Directors’ top priority was “strategic planning and oversight” in 2011, according to the recent Public Company Governance Survey from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). It’s satisfying to hear that ISACA is in good company, as we embarked on an initiative in 2011 to evaluate and extend the strategic direction first implemented in 2 […]
Body: Ronke Oyemade, CISA, CRISC, PMP For an organization to achieve its strategic goals, it needs to manage risk in an effective and timely manner. Since an organization’s resources are limited, it needs to identify risk, assess each risk in terms of the impact the occurrence of the risk will have in hindering the organization from achieving its strategic g […]
Body: Rama Lingeswara Satyanarayana Tammineedi, CISA, BCCE, CBCP, CISSP, PMP The business continuity management (BCM) best practices and standards need to be customized to suit organizational culture and BCM requirements. When this customization is not practical and sensible, the implementation of BCM projects will be ineffective. Based on my experience as b […]