IT Audit Security
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Founded by J. Michael Markowicz in 2010, IT Audit Security is a blog that offers expert advice on how to protect your business against cyber threats. The blog covers a variety of topics, including security audits, vulnerability assessments, and incident response.
IT Audit Security
5M ago
Mike Pivette from returnonsecurity.com has posted 25 lessons about the cybersecurity industry from his 17 years in that field. It’s a great list, and I agree with almost all of them. You can agree with me, roll our eyes, or ..read more
IT Audit Security
5M ago
As the season of gratitude unfolds, let’s take a moment to express thanks for the often unsung heroes of the corporate realm – the IT auditors. In a world that thrives on bits and bytes, their role is crucial, and ..read more
IT Audit Security
11M ago
Identifying a risk is always a good thing, but to apply the right solution, you need to find the root cause (the real problem). Too often, finding the root cause can be hard not only because of how something was ..read more
IT Audit Security
11M ago
I was wandering through some of my older posts on my blog and rediscovered my Data Center Failure series. I had totally forgotten about these adventures as they happened so long ago – 2014 to be exact, back when I ..read more
IT Audit Security
11M ago
Twitter no longer allows WordPress blogs to tweet about new blog posts, so if you want to be notified when new posts arrive, sign up with your email. Look for the signup area similar to the one shown in this ..read more
IT Audit Security
1y ago
Just for fun, one of my readers asked ChatGPT to write an article analyzing how internal audit uses data analytics (love that alliteration). If you’re new to ChatGPT, go here, and remember to scroll down. This reader (who wishes to ..read more
IT Audit Security
1y ago
For the past few years, I’ve been outspoken about auditors that 1) don’t do much data analysis, OR 2) rely only on tools like ACL, IDEA, Arbutus, and the like to do their data analysis. In this post, I’m going ..read more
IT Audit Security
1y ago
In my previous Python post, I described the first steps of my python journey. In this post, I want to respond to Grant’s comments that he left here re: auditors getting into programming, and specifically python. [For my readers who don’t ..read more
IT Audit Security
1y ago
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been learning Python. As a result, I haven’t posted for a long while, so I thought I’d crawl out of my Python den and discuss my journey so far. It has been ..read more
IT Audit Security
1y ago
Hi folks, it has been a while since I posted. I’m not dead or in solitary confinement. I’ve just been busy studying Python, and it has taken a bit of my time. I’ll post something soon…. Anybody else working on ..read more