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The Nexus Article

Routine Maintenance

I find that many outside of our profession believe cybersecurity is overly complicated and, frankly, nerdy. Because of this view, soft skills required to translate technical issues into business context are extremely important. This belief may also be dissuading youth from pursuing tech careers and, instead, steering them to be simply consumers of technology.

9 December 2019
The Nexus Article

Tokenization: Your Secret Weapon for Data Security?

Consider this: 4.1 billion records have been compromised in the first half of 2019 alone, a 54% increase over the same period in 2018. Organizations in nearly every industry are facing an ever-growing and out-of-control cybersecurity crisis.

11 November 2019
The Nexus Article

Third-Party Risk Management Vs. Provider’s Accountability

Lately, I have been reflecting on the need to assess third-party risk and how other business sectors have mitigated this risk in the past. I have concluded the origin for this need is what economists call a “market failure.”

11 November 2019
Governance Article

Transitioning From COBIT 5 to COBIT 2019 | ISACA

COBIT 5 was released in 2012 and, after 6 years, in November 2018, the first titles in the updated COBIT 2019 framework began to appear. Implementers observe that, in practice, enterprises often require several years to become familiar with an upgraded framework and adopt new guidance and standards.

11 November 2019
Governance Article

COBIT 2019 for Enterprise Governance Strategy | ISACA

Strategy is a plan for achieving a set objective. COBIT 2019 is here to help practitioners apply standard information and technology (I&T) controls to enterprise governance strategy. Mapping control objectives from the International

28 October 2019
The Nexus Article

Email Warning Banners: Are We Using Them Effectively?

Imagine walking out to your mailbox on a sunny day. Most of us can relate to eagerly awaiting a package containing the latest gadget that you bought online. You reach into the mailbox, leaf though the contents and are likely disappointed that your postal carrier has deposited a pile of bills; it is a tragedy that occurs far too often.

14 October 2019
The Nexus Article

Securing Tomorrow: Investing in Digital Education

Scan your favorite news sources and you will see frequently repeated words such as “breach,” “compromise,” “exposure,” “identity theft” and “hacker.” Headlines routinely highlight the impact (or potential impact) to critical infrastructure, economic prosperity, financial markets, etc.

14 October 2019
Governance Article

Using COBIT 2019 Performance Management Model to Assess Governance & Management Objectives | ISACA

COBIT 5 was released in 2012 and, after 6 years, in November 2018, the first titles in the updated COBIT 2019 framework began to appear. Implementers observe that, in practice, enterprises often require several years to become familiar with an upgraded framework and adopt new guidance and standards.

16 September 2019
The Nexus Article

A Key to Strengthening IT Security? Chaos

The chaos theory, a mathematics discovery first observed in the second half of the 20th century, aims to explain or even give some predictability to complex systems. At first glance, the chaos theory resembles most mathematical discoveries—a theoretical pursuit.

9 September 2019
Governance Article

Digital Business Transformation Using COBIT 2019 | ISACA

In today’s economy, digital business transformation is not an option—it is business imperative. Many enterprises develop a false sense of transformation security by running isolated digital projects and change initiatives that are not strategically transformational.

19 August 2019
The Nexus Article

(Mental) State of the Security Practitioner

In today’s world, the need to take care of oneself is more important than ever. The “always on” mentality exerted upon many salaried employees—especially those charged with detecting, responding and recovering from incidents...

12 August 2019
Governance Article

Impressions From Delivering COBIT 2019 Foundation Training for Auditors | ISACA

Due to the nature of their profession, IT auditors are some of the stakeholders most interested in COBIT. Delivering COBIT 2019 Foundation training to groups of IT auditors is a good way to glean insights and tips from the IT auditor’s perspective.

5 August 2019
Governance Article

Why Peter Pan Hates COBIT 2019 | ISACA

Why would Peter Pan have an opinion on COBIT 2019, and a dark one no less? No, COBIT is not the name of the newest deckhand working for Captain Hook. Rather, it can be explained by my experience in which many enterprises are averse to change and

15 July 2019
The Nexus Article

Qualified Certificates as a Foundation for Digital Transformation

Human tasks such as handwritten signing are an obstacle to digital transformation. These human tasks interrupt process digitalization and create the need for the implementation of expensive processes such as accessing, storing and archiving paper-based documentation.

8 July 2019
Governance Article

Lessons Learned While Combining COBIT 5 & ITIL | ISACA

An engagement at a financial technology (fintech) organization provided a novel first-hand experience of working with COBIT 5. Despite more than 7 years’ experience in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) projects that involved COBIT 5

24 June 2019
The Nexus Article

Data Security and Niche Software

Inside a large corporation, it is sometimes easy to forget that not everyone’s life revolves around SAP, Salesforce, Adobe Experience Manager or Microsoft Azure. Squadrons of software categories exist to help small and mid-size businesses operate in niche markets that do not align with (and, frankly, could not afford) the offerings of the larger players.

10 June 2019
The Nexus Article

Building Cybersecurity Culture With Effective Awareness and Training Programs

Different information sources claim that 90% of cyberattacks are successful because of the mistakes made by information technology users.1, 2 The range of mistakes is broad and includes bad password practices, systems with open vulnerabilities, susceptibility to phishing and spear phishing attacks, risky information sharing practices and more.

10 June 2019
Governance Article

5 Steps for Auditing IT Risk Management Using IT Risk Management Audit/Assurance Program | ISACA

With the increasing complexity of IT systems and their widespread implementation in virtually all spheres of life (e.g., medicine, banking, manufacturing, education), managing IT risk effectively becomes extremely challenging.

10 June 2019
Governance Article

Governing Digital Transformation Using COBIT 2019 | ISACA

Many countries have launched ehealth initiatives as a response to public-sector transformation. It is one of the business sectors impacted by the vertical digitization movement that has become the trend in the last decade along with eeducation, ebanking, egovernment and more.

20 May 2019
The Nexus Article

Understanding and Implementing a Culture of Cybersecurity

Cultures have been studied by sociologists and anthropologists for a very long time. The fact that culture is an area of scientific study speaks to its importance and the need to understand culture and its impact on people and their behaviors.

13 May 2019
Governance Article

Tips for Implementing COBIT in a Continuously Changing Environment | ISACA

There is a new term coined here: “COBITIAN.” It describes professionals who love COBIT and are excited and happy for the evolution to COBIT 2019, including its new governance and management objectives, design factors, and focus areas concepts.

29 April 2019
Governance Article

COBIT 2019 Hot Off the Press | ISACA

2019 is off to a strong start—there is an exciting year to come, and a refreshed and revitalized IT governance framework to explore. Released in December 2018, COBIT 2019 is a major revision of the well-established set of guides for effective IT governance.

15 April 2019
Governance Article

IT Governance for Dummies, Part 2 | ISACA

Both business and IT are “unconsciously incompetent” 1 when dealing with the issues relating to both the need for and scope of IT governance in this age of digital disruption. That is the thesis of the first installment of this 2-part series.

1 April 2019
Governance Article

Defining Target Capability Levels in COBIT 2019 | ISACA

The COBIT 2019 Design Guide: Designing an Information and Technology Governance Solution outlines a robust, logical and quantifiable process for designing a governance system over enterprise information and technology (I&T).

18 March 2019
The Nexus Article

10 Questions and Answers When Deploying a PKI

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is at the core of the enterprise IT backbone, and its integration with core IT applications is growing, according to the 2018 Global PKI Trends Study by nCipher Security and Ponemon Institute.

11 March 2019
Governance Article

Designing Your Organization’s Custom COBIT

Governance over a complex and continuously evolving domain such as enterprise information and technology (I&T) requires a multitude of components, including processes, organizational structures, information flows, behaviors, etc.

4 March 2019
Governance Article

Agile GEIT, Building Trust & Maximizing Value Delivery: Pt 2 Practitioners Guide | ISACA

To minimize the impact that ever-increasing legal and regulatory requirements have on Agile’s ability to respond effectively and efficiently to customer needs and maximize value delivery in a timely manner require a governance of enterprise IT (GEIT) system equally focused on managing IT risk and the delivery of a value-add outcome to the organization.

18 February 2019
The Nexus Article

Five Questions to Ask in Your Next Cybersecurity Job Interview

Career development and advancement is important to most professionals and, in the case of cyberprofessionals, the current state of a wide range of available jobs and not enough skilled professionals to fill them can be a job seeker’s dream.

11 February 2019
Governance Article

A Dynamic Approach to Tailoring Governance in the Era of Digital Disruption | ISACA

We are living in exciting times where the impact of disruptive technology is seen in all aspects of our professional and personal lives. We are witnessing the phenomenal pace of technology change and the resultant impact on enterprises in terms of innovative business processes facilitated by information systems with underlying technology

4 February 2019
Governance Article

IT Governance for Dummies, Part 1 | ISACA

Before deciding not to read on, arguably, there are a lot of us out there showing little thought or judgement about what IT governance really means and what we should be doing about it. When reviewing some of the facts and figures herein, it appears that some people are doing things in a very careless manner.
Governance Article

Agile GEIT Practitioners Guide, Part 1 | ISACA

Ever-increasing legal and regulatory requirements have an impact on Agile’s ability to respond to customers’ needs in a timely, effective and efficient manner.