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Take a deeper look at ISACA

This week`s resource selections highlight ISACA’s long-term effort to provide leading guidance to IT audit and control professionals....

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 3:54 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

Risk management tips

This week`s resource selections combines risk thought-leadership with a touch of enterprise architecture and a comprehensive quality management resource repository....

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 9:51 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

More risk mangement strategies

This week`s resource selections focuses on accountability frameworks, covering risk-based management and performance reporting...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 10:18 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

Malware strains headed into the billions

PandaLabs says 25 million new strains of malware were created last year. I think this number will increase into the billions shortly, but that doesn’t mean you should be concerned at all ...

Published Wed, Jan 06 2010 3:45 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

The state of IT auditing

This week’s resource selections focus on audit, building security into all our IT solutions, and finally being more effective in delivering IT solution (making information systems work!)....

Published Fri, Nov 27 2009 11:41 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

Teaching staff to fish

Today's resource selections covers staff development, effective communications, risk, and auditing security. ...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2009 11:34 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

Being prepared and in control

Continuing last week selections from my various columns for Jim Kaplan, this week I highlight resources that have a “governance” focus....

Published Fri, Nov 13 2009 4:27 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

Filed under: Security

The importance of internal audits

This week`s resource selections originate from a monthly internal audit column I write for Jim Kaplan, for going on more than three years now....

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 9:23 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

All about the IIA

This week`s resource selections highlight IIA’s long-term effort to provide leading guidance to internal auditors and risk management professionals...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 11:58 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

Filed under: Practice Guides

Metasploit acquired by Rapid7 – My $0.02

Metasploit acquired by Rapid7 - A discussion of the recent acquistion. ...

Published Thu, Oct 22 2009 4:01 PM by Brian Bourne

Filed under: Security

IT audit checklists

This week`s resource selections focus on IT audit guidance that covers the evaluation of a variety of critical IT activities. ...

Published Mon, Oct 19 2009 4:44 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

Inside the EDPACS newsletter

This week I’m highlighting EDPACS, a long time monthly IT audit and control newsletter, now into its 37th year of publication....

Published Tue, Oct 13 2009 3:10 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

A fistful of risk management resources

This week I’m highlighting three leading risk management books as well as my three year summary of monthly columns for AuditNet and Jim’s internal audit newsletter, now into its 15 year! Finally, KARL is a very unique resource which will require hours and hours of study. Have another great week....

Published Mon, Oct 05 2009 10:23 AM by Rafael Ruffolo

Filed under: Security, Risk management

S&P’s global regulatory framework for credit ratings

This week's resource selections highlight the Standard & Poor’s effort to improve credit ratings assessments. The evaluation of an organization’s enterprise risk management practices is a key strategy for S&P – to improve their...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 8:14 PM by Rafael Ruffolo

Security vendors and their obsession with celebrity deaths

Last week I expressed some disappointment with the way some security vendors use scare tactics in their press releases to the media. Symantec took the brunt of the criticism during that post, so it’s only fair that their rival McAfee feels my wrath...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 3:14 PM by Rafael Ruffolo