Tomorrow i am invited by Paul O’Brien, a director at Solute Consulting, for the “Val IT business lunch” organized by ISACA. As i have never been exposed to that organisation in the past i tried to find out something on the internet which i found quite hard.

The Brisbane Chapter website doesn’t say anything in the About ISACA section, the ISACA homepage for Asia Pac has a flash introduction that is displaying a keyboard, scrolling a couple of buzz words from top to bottm around IT Governance, Risk Management, Security, CoBit and after shoing some certification that might be recognized in the world it comes to a point that actually isnt one, but at least the full name of the organization “Information Systems Audit and Control Association”. Aha, and further on ‘ Serving IT Governance professionals’. Great that i was able to find that out.

Next Step is to check the super ‘.org’ domain, and lets see what we have there, and this site looks content rich and in the Overview section we are getting down to the detail, as in the 4th paragraph we are able to understand what they do for us: (more…)