The talk will explain the difficulty in conducting security audits in organizations, specifically enterprises whose services and networks span multiple domains/boundaries, use cloud and on-premises services, and are hosted across several geographies. This will include using our proposed conceptual security audit framework to show how organizations can conduct appropriate security audits. Further, it will provide insights to the essential requirements necessary for efficient security audits, and including types of security audits, things to consider before conducting a security audit, general guidelines in performing security audits, and audit trail analysis. This talk should be suitable to both business executives and technical audiences, including CEOs, CISOs, Administrators, Information Technology, Software Engineering and Architecture stakeholders.

Dr. Cyril Onwubiko is Director, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cyber Security at Research Series Limited, in London, where he directs strategy and governance in AI, Blockchain and Cyber Security. He has authored several books and is the editor of the Cyber Science series, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness.