I admit it. This post is inspired by a post with a similar name by my good friend and occasional debate partner, Richard Chambers: 10 Red Flags Your Internal Audit Function May Be Losing Ground. Have a look if you haven’t already read it. He makes some very good points. Here are his ten red […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Before I explain the mantra in the title of this blog post, I want to review some basics. 1. Boards and the CEO measure success based on the achievement of objectives. Some say those objectives are…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
The Pentagon failed its 7th audit, unable to account for $2.46 trillion, raising concerns about financial mismanagement and accountability.| TheCommuneMag
“The school board was asleep at the wheel,” said Scott Fitzpatrick, Missouri's state auditor. He added that the district could run out of money in less than six years at current spending levels.| STLPR
Our team performed a security audit of Linea’s Limitless Prover. The zkEVM aims to provide an execution environment equivalent to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing Ethereum transactions and smart contract executions. The Limitless Prover feature enables proof generation without the need to impose limits due to the underlying arithmetization. In the previous design, the ... Read more The post Linea – Limitless Prover appeared first on Least Authority.| Least Authority
Audits often feel frustrating. Learn how to use your auditor as a strategic partner and have a smoother audit experience.| Thoropass
I would say that most IT auditors and CAEs are familiar with pre-implementation reviews. These are audit engagements designed to proactively work with management when there are system implementations. They provide assurance, advice, and insight on the effectiveness of the internal controls and security that will exist when the system is live. Pre-implementation reviews are […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
My thanks and congratulations to Alexander Ruehle for his post this week on LinkedIn: Internal audit has just been audited by internal auditors. Why do I ask whether the profession and the IIA are at a crisis point? Consider that according to the IIA’s own Vision 2035 (and his post): 48% still view Internal Auditors […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
I am going to look into my AI-enabled crystal ball and imagine the world of the future (the not-too-distant future) decision-maker. Then I will look again to see what the risk practitioner and the …| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
On July 24, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) approved regulations that would impose a new requirement under the California Consumer| Data Protection Report
Jacob Soll’s The Reckoning looks the history of financial accountability. He starts from early accounting and makes the point that tracking how the finances works has been central to the success (and failure) of many nations. The key point is that understanding money really does matter. Various potentates have over the years decided that financial... The post Understanding Money Really Does Matter first appeared on Marketing Thought.| Marketing Thought
The average cost of a data breach reached $4.88 million in 2024 (IBM), yet most organizations continue to rely on reactive cybersecurity approaches that fail to prevent these devastating incidents. While cybersecurity audits represent one of the most effective proactive measures for identifying vulnerabilities before they become costly breaches, many organizations remain trapped in inefficient […] The post The complete guide to cybersecurity audits in 2025 appeared first on Thoropass.| Thoropass
Chia Network has requested that Least Authority perform security audits of Permuto.| Least Authority
The open source community has been abuzz for the past two years about European governance in open source software. From casual meetups to professional conferences, the implication of government funding and regulation of the free-use software sector has resulted in heavily debated discourse around the legal, financial, societal, and functional changes possible with the introduction […]| OSTIF.org
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of OpenEXR, a project at the Academy Software Foundation. OpenEXR is an open source specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, which “accurately and efficiently represents high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data,” (https://openexr.com/en/latest/). With the help of Shielder and […]| OSTIF.org
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of MaterialX. MaterialX is an open source project hosted at the Academy Software Foundation for “representing rich material and look-development content in computer graphics, enabling its platform-independent description and exchange across applications and renderers,” (materialx.org). With the help of […]| OSTIF.org
Istio’s ambient mode splits the service mesh into two distinct layers: Layer 7 processing (the “waypoint proxy”), which remains powered by the traditional Envoy proxy; and a secure overlay (the “zero-trust tunnel” or “ztunnel”), which is a new codebase, written from the ground up in Rust. It is our intention that the ztunnel project be safe to install by default in every Kubernetes cluster, and to that end, it needs to be secure and performant. We comprehensively demonstrated zt...| Istio Blog
Istio is a project that platform engineers trust to enforce security policy in their production Kubernetes environments. We pay a lot of care to security in our code, and maintain a robust vulnerability program. To validate our work, we periodically invite external review of the project, and we are pleased to publish the results of our second security audit. The auditors’ assessment was that “Istio is a well-maintained project that has a strong and sustainable approach to security”. No ...| Istio Blog
Many years ago, my friend Ed Hill, a Managing Director with Protiviti at the time, coined the expression “there is no such thing as IT risk. There is only business risk.” Yet, people still talk about quantifying cyber risk in a silo. They talk about “risk to information assets” instead of risk to the achievement […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
One of my audit committee members once told me that when he thinks of a model internal auditor, he thinks of me. I wasn’t sure how to take that! I know he meant it as a compliment, but while my business card might say that I was in charge of the internal audit function, that […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
I recently discovered how some people are projecting that AI will transform the work of corporate counsel. Yes, there are several on how it will transform the work of the law firms, but I am concer…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed its annual Collaborative Cloud Audit Group (CCAG) audit engagement with leading European financial institutions. At AWS, security remains our highest priority. As customers continue to embrace the scalability and flexibility of the cloud, we support them in evolving security, identity, and compliance into core business enablers. The AWS Compliance […]| Amazon Web Services
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of conda-forge. conda-forge is a community-driven open source repository of conda package manager recipes. With the help of 7ASecurity and the Sovereign Tech Agency, this project has invested in its longevity and security health by hardening its resilience and resolving the reported vulnerabilities. | OSTIF.org
Feedback loops can make or break your experience when it comes to an audit. Learn how to work more effectively with your auditor.| Thoropass
Cloud adoption is accelerating. Security automation is evolving. But the way we handle audits? It’s still stuck in the past. Compliance teams today are managing audits with the same reactive, manual playbooks they’ve used for years—despite new tools that promise better outcomes. It’s no wonder audit season still feels like a fire drill complete with […]| Thoropass
Transform compliance from burden to advantage with a strategic audit readiness approach that reduces costs, minimizes disruption, and creates sustainable security advantages.| Thoropass
When I started writing this post, Microsoft Word offered to help. Its AI asked what I wanted to write about and then developed a draft that had some excellent content. It wasn’t what I wanted to write, but I am going to steal some excellent parts starting with: Ask the average person about internal auditors, […]| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Politicians in the US (at least on one side of the aisle) love to talk about “waste, fraud, and abuse”. How big is it? Google AI tells us: Estimates of the financial impact of waste, fraud, and abu…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
A post post I made last week on Linkedin attracted this interesting contribution from Dominic Connor. I disagree with some of his detailed points, but I am in broad sympathy with his wider argument, so I thought it deserved a considered response, which was too long for a Linkedin post. Here it is, but first […]| James Christie's Blog
This post walks you through settings up error logging and auditing for your Azure SQL DBs, which is easy with diagnostic settings.| sqlkitty
This post was migrated by mingcheng from the CNCF Blog, the orginal post can be found here.| Dragonfly Blog
We performed a security audit of the zkBTC Circuit Implementation and Smart Contracts. zkBTC Bridge is a native zero‐knowledge proof-based cross‐chain protocol by Lightec that enables Bitcoin holders to convert BTC into an ERC-20 token, $zkBTC, on Ethereum at a 1:1 peg. Our final audit report was completed on June 16, 2025. To read the ... Read more The post Lightec – zkBTC Circuit + Smart Contracts appeared first on Least Authority.| Least Authority
Our team performed a security audit of the Joey Wallet’s key management, focusing on the proper implementation of key derivation, management, and storage. Our final audit report was completed on June 6, 2025. To read the full report, including our findings, click here: Report The post Joey Wallet appeared first on Least Authority.| Least Authority
As the Zcash ecosystem Security Lead, Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) requested that we perform a security audit of the FROST server and client components. The frost-crate is an implementation for a threshold Schnorr signatures scheme called FROST (RFC 9591, [KG20]). The frost-demo allows a user to locally mimic a key generation setup via a trusted dealer ... Read more The post Zcash – FROST Demo appeared first on Least Authority.| Least Authority
Storm clouds appear to be hovering over county government, and they are the type that... The post Storm clouds over county government? appeared first on McCurtain County Gazette News.| McCurtain County Gazette News
I am all in favor of being resilient. Gemini Ai tells us: Resilience is the ability to adapt to and recover from adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. One of my res…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Poor cash flow management during EOFY can lead to financial stress, missed obligations, and lost opportunities. Let's discuss the solution| InvoiceInterchange AU
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Volcano. Volcano is an open source cloud native batch scheduling system offering among other things queue management and multi-cluster scheduling. With the help of Ada Logics and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), this project can move forward in the process of the CNCF’s graduation program.| OSTIF.org
CSS is what gives every website its design. Websites sure aren’t very fun and friendly without it! I’ve read about somebody going a week without JavaScript| CSS-Tricks
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc, thanks to funding provided by Sovereign Tech Fund, engaged with Quarkslab to perform a security audit of PHP-SRC, the interpreter of the PHP language.| Quarkslab's blog
Allbridge mandated Quarkslab to perform an audit of their updated version of Estrela, an automated market maker for Stellar built on Soroban.| Quarkslab's blog
Keith’s 15 Nov note: NASA used to be plague by awful financial audits. Then it cleaned up its act. You’d think that such good news would be worthy of some smart media placement i.e. so the story can get into the publication process well before the deadlines are reached and maximum eyeballs can see it. Or maybe on the following Monday when it would have a week to be seen. […] The post Shh! NASA Just Got Another Great Audit. appeared first on NASA Watch.| News Archives - NASA Watch
A few years ago, the IIA published an Internal Audit Assessment Tool for audit committees. I think it is one of their best products. The guide suggests asking these big-questions first. (I have hig…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
These are the considerations for preparing you and your business for AI, including a free worksheet and AI audit to help you achieve success. The post Is Your Business Ready for AI? A Step-by-Step Audit Framework appeared first on The Social Media Hat.| The Social Media Hat
We make here a general presentation about how the formal verification of smart contracts works by explaining:| Formal Land Blog
Looking for a free site audit tool? Get clear, easy-to-understand insights on how to improve your site's performance. Receive it in minutes.| Prerender
Learn how to avoid IRS audit risks for your nonprofit in 2025 with expert compliance tips and 990 reporting best practices.| GreenGrowth CPAs
Explore top ISO career pathways in Australia with ICExperts Academy. Discover the opportunities and steps to advance your career today.| ICExperts Academy
Use of Evidence Generated by Software in Criminal Proceedings In January 2025 the Ministry of Justice launched a consultation on how courts should deal with computer evidence in England and Wales. …| James Christie's Blog
Read Express.js Security Audit: A Milestone Achievement| Express Blog
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025, I decided to play with Twitter/X’s Grok 3 AI tool. My game was to play the role of someone trying to track me down based on sketchy details from my past. It took Grok a …| James Christie's Blog
How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they thought Horizon would not be used for criminal evidence? In the first part of this series, “A contractual mess”, I explained some of the contractual confus…| James Christie's Blog
Auditing dependencies for known security vulnerabilities Staying on top of disclosed security vulnerabilities in dependencies is a constant challenge. There are many monitoring solutions created to help track the security status of your dependencies. We offer our own Private Packagist Security Monitoring to notify customers through various channels, but not| Private Packagist
Discover the 7 common challenges of online learning for auditor growth and training. Enhance your internal auditor skills today!| ICExperts Academy
Blundering through a fog of confusionThis is the second part of my series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system t…| James Christie's Blog
This will be a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. Both corporations were hop…| James Christie's Blog
Richard Chambers and I go back many decades, first as colleagues and then as friends, and we have great mutual respect. While we often appear to disagree, that is more often than not in our choice …| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
A recent article by Carol Williams of Strategic Decision Solutions carried this title and had some wisdom to share. For example, she said: Enterprise risk assessment can be defined as: “the practic…| Norman Marks on Governance, Risk Management, and Internal Audit
Something that's often overlooked in the marketplace is not all accessibility audits are the same.| Accessible.org
Not yet. While large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Facebook / Meta's Llama and accessibility specific artificial| Accessible.org
We received an email from a prospective client who wanted to know: what is the difference between an accessibility conformance report (ACR) and an audit report?| Accessible.org
Audits are our most popular accessibility service. When clients are ready to buy, they choose us - sometimes immediately, and other times when their project| Accessible.org
Many people refer to a website accessibility audit as an ADA website compliance audit and there is no harm in this since everyone understands both terms to| Accessible.org
Explore the growing issue of unaffordable audits and discover practical strategies businesses can use to reduce audit costs without compromising compliance.| Experlu
The demand for professional IT auditors is greater than ever due to the increasing digitalization of every aspect of business and industry. Starting a career as an IT auditor involves a combination of education, experience, and strategic planning. Here are ten tips to help you begin and succeed in this field:| securitywing
Did you know that October is Cyber Security Awareness month, and that this year already marks its 21st anniversary? This collaborative effort between government and industry aims to raise awareness of online risks and to share important safety tips. These campaigns focus on basic best practices, such as protecting your| Private Packagist
The demand for forensic accountants has surged. Professionals apply their skills in analytical thinking to unravel financial irregularities and crimes.| HRSS CPA
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There are 2 ways to conduct a WCAG website accessibility audit: self-evaluation with tools and manual testing, or a professional audit by specialists. Your choice!| Top 5 Accessibility
BAPL has called on SEDEX to pause its introduction of changes to its SMETA 7.0 standard. BAPL says the standard is not currently auditable.| Home
Culture takes shape in every type of organization, whether it's a business or a sports team. This happens as certain behaviors become the norm, whether by design or by accident. Prosperous companies make deliberate choices| Total HIPAA Compliance
Today we’re releasing Composer 2.7.7 (PHP 7.2+) and 2.2.24 (LTS for use on PHP 5.3 to 7.1) to address two security vulnerabilities as well as a number of smaller security hardening measures, please update to the new versions immediately (e.g. with| Private Packagist
Top five reasons why you should consider supporting a small niche charity over large multi-national established organisations.| Wild Welfare
Master creating an effective internal audit schedule with these 5 handy tips. Ensure compliance and improve risk management in your organisation.| ICExperts Academy
The Istio service mesh has gained wide production adoption across a wide variety of industries. The success of the project, and its critical usage for enforcing key security policies in infrastructure warranted an open and neutral assessment of the security risks associated with the project. To achieve this goal, the Istio community contracted the NCC Group last year to conduct a third-party security assessment of the project. The goal of the review was “to identify security issues related ...| Istio Blog
Maintaining complete and compliant documentation while managing the complex processes and interactions of clinical trial conduct can be complicated. This blog outlines the details to look out for preparing your investigator site file (ISF) for an audit.| Advarra - Advancing Better Research
While seeking free solutions is tempting, getting a truly comprehensive SEO audit for free is a rarity. How much does a quality audit cost?| techseoaudits.com
Internal linking is a powerful way to enhance website visibility and user experience and an internal linking audit can help uncover these.| techseoaudits.com
Technische Prüfungen bewerten Sicherheit und Konfiguration von Android-Apps, doch insbesondere die Prüfung von Signaturblöcken muss verbessert werden.| www.kuketz-blog.de
This tip is focused on designing controls that reflect the process being testing, if they don't, a headache of massive proportions will be created once testing begins. What do you do to make sure you don't screw this up? Have as many meetings as it takes to get it right. What you need to do| SOC Reporting Guide - SOC 1 | SOC 2 » The Original SOC Report Resource Cente...
The speed at which your website loads can make or break user experience, search rankings, and even your bottom line. The post What is a Site Speed Audit? appeared first on techseoaudits.com.| techseoaudits.com
Audit logs can provide all sorts of wonderful points of data. In the interest of identity security, we have historically seen that we can glean rich sets of information around […] The post Dude, Where’s My Audit Logs? appeared first on Eric on Identity.| Eric on Identity
Discover how technology addresses audit challenges. Explore the synergy between innovation and auditing for enhanced efficiency and compliance.| Experlu
We are thrilled to announce that Stalwart Mail Server has undergone a comprehensive security audit conducted by Radically Open Security. As a part of their assessment, a crystal-box penetration test was performed to ensure the robustness and security of the mail server.| stalw.art
An SEO workflow can be use to complete a technical SEO audit and get the insights you need and start improving your SEO performance.| techseoaudits.com
Tech SEO Tuesdays started as a way to share advice I wish I'd known when I first started in SEO. Free technical SEO advice.| Nikki Halliwell
OSTIF is pleased to announce the completion of a security audit of Eclipse Jetty in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and Trail of Bits. This audit was a part of a package of work organized and managed by OSTIF to provide security engagements to Eclipse Foundation projects. With funding and full support from the Foundation, OSTIF was able to provide three projects with much-needed security oversight, analysis, and recommendations that helps projects grow stronger and more secure than ...| OSTIF.org
This post discusses the similarities and differences between NIST 800-171, DFARS, and CMMC. Alpine Security performs DFARS and CMMC audits.| CISO Global (formerly Alpine Security)
This summer, over four engineer weeks, Trail of Bits and| d7y.io
Results of a third-party security review by NCC Group.| Istio