Security, Audit and Leadership Series
About the Book Series
Formerly the Internal Audit and IT Audit series - now rebranded and wider in scope!
The scope and mandate for internal audit continues to evolve each year, as does the complexity of the business environment and speed of the changing risk landscape in which it must operate.
The fundamental goal of this exciting series is to produce leading-edge books on critical subjects facing security and audit executives and practitioners.
Key topics addressed include Leadership, Cybersecurity, Security Leadership, Privacy, Strategic Risk Management, Auditing IT, Audit Management and Leadership, and Operational Auditing.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal for a book to be included in the series, please email [email protected]
Leading the Internal Audit Function
1st Edition
By Lynn Fountain
April 29, 2021
While the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) has provided standards and guidelines for the practice of internal audit through the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF), internal auditors and Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) continue to experience difficulties when attempting to ...
Corporate Defense and the Value Preservation Imperative: Bulletproof Your Corporate Defense Program
1st Edition
By Sean Lyons
March 31, 2021
This is the first book to finally address the umbrella term corporate defense, and to explain how an integrated corporate defense program can help an organization address both value creation and preservation. The book explores the value preservation imperative, which represents an organization’s ...
The Complete Guide for CISA Examination Preparation
1st Edition
By Richard E. Cascarino
October 06, 2020
The Complete Guide for CISA Examination Preparation delivers complete coverage of every topic on the latest release of the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. The author is an IT security and auditing expert and the book covers all five exam domains. This effective self-study system ...
Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Yassine Maleh, Mohammad Shojafar, Mamoun Alazab, Imed Romdhani
August 03, 2020
Blockchain technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not ...
Corporate Governance: A Pragmatic Guide for Auditors, Directors, Investors, and Accountants
1st Edition
By Vasant Raval
April 15, 2020
This book facilitates a systematic comprehension of internal workings of corporate governance in practice. Facets of this multidisciplinary, constantly evolving field are discussed and interrelationships among them are explained to provide insights on how certain precepts come into play for various...
The Audit Value Factor
1st Edition
By Daniel Samson
August 14, 2019
The Audit Value Factor: Making Management’s Head Turn empowers readers with a systematic method to build and maintain a value-centric internal audit organization. The book explores how to identify, quantify, and articulate value for customers. It details six critical success factors: Value ...
Managing IoT Systems for Institutions and Cities
1st Edition
By Chuck Benson
July 15, 2019
This book defines what IoT Systems manageability looks like and what the associated resources and costs are of that manageability. It identifies IoT Systems performance expectations and addresses the difficult challenges of determining actual costs of IoT Systems implementation, operation, and ...
How to Build a Cyber-Resilient Organization
1st Edition
By Dan Shoemaker, Anne Kohnke, Ken Sigler
December 03, 2018
This book presents a standard methodology approach to cyber-resilience. Readers will learn how to design a cyber-resilient architecture for a given organization as well as how to maintain a state of cyber-resilience in its day-to-day operation. Readers will know how to establish a state of ...
Auditor Essentials: 100 Concepts, Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Success
1st Edition
By Hernan Murdock
October 09, 2018
Internal auditors must know many concepts, techniques, control frameworks, and remain knowledgeable despite the many changes occurring in the marketplace and their profession. This easy to use reference makes this process easier and ensures auditors can obtain needed information quickly and ...
Project Management Capability Assessment: Performing ISO 33000-Based Capability Assessments of Project Management
1st Edition
By Peter T. Davis, Barry D. Lewis
September 18, 2018
Learn how to perform project management according to international standards of compliance using capability assessment processes. This book compares and contrasts the approach to project management using ISO 21500 against the more direct ISO 33000 Capability Assessment. It shows how to assess ...
Supply Chain Risk Management: Applying Secure Acquisition Principles to Ensure a Trusted Technology Product
1st Edition
By Ken Sigler, Dan Shoemaker, Anne Kohnke
November 03, 2017
The book presents the concepts of ICT supply chain risk management from the perspective of NIST IR 800-161. It covers how to create a verifiable audit-based control structure to ensure comprehensive security for acquired products. It explains how to establish systematic control over the supply ...
Ethics and the Internal Auditor's Political Dilemma: Tools and Techniques to Evaluate a Company's Ethical Culture
1st Edition
By Lynn Fountain
December 12, 2016
This book helps auditors understand the reality of performing the internal audit role and the importance of properly managing ethical standards. It provides many examples of ethical conflicts and proposes alternative actions for the internal auditor. Internal auditors are well-schooled on the IIA ...