While there’s a lot of emphasis on IT Governance, organizations have been building silo IT governance mechanisms to solve problems in isolation. This is...
Author - Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA
Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA, PIIA, is the international president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). Previously, she was a vice president on ISACA’s International Board from 1999 to 2002, and returned to the International Board as an appointed director of ISACA in 2006. Lawton has been a member of ISACA since 1989 and served on the North of England UK Chapter board for 10 years, including six years as chapter president. She served on ISACA's global Standards Board for four years prior to chairing it for two years, and set up and chaired ISACA’s Governmental and Regulatory Agencies Board for three years and its Assurance Committee. Lynn is a director at KPMG LLP in Watford, UK, where she is responsible for risk management in KPMG’s UK Risk Advisory Services function. She has more than 20 years of experience providing IT assurance services and security advice across a range of industries. She has led teams of IT audit and security specialists engaged in activities including the IT aspects of financial statement audit and internal audit, as well as improving business and IT processes and controls and system security, system testing, benchmarking of information security, IT strategy implementation and outsourcing implementation. Lynn is a member of the Programme Advisory Board for the CASS Business School’s MSc in Management (London, UK), and a Trustee of The University Women’s Club.