With laugh-out-loud humor, killer take-away strategies and her amazing insights into ourselves and others (including a few who “drive you crazy”), Human Relations expert Connie Podesta will both challenge you and empower you with the knowledge you need to get along better with the people in your life. Connie will take you right inside the minds and personalities of the people you deal with every day--bosses, colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family-- so YOU can ACT, rather than REACT to whatever life throws your way. Get ready for less stress and more success!

1. Discuss optimal IT risk management processes 

2. Discuss the impact of the “Three Lines of Defense Model” on IT Internal Audit 

3. Provide examples and recommendations to improve your IT internal auditing function and how to help your organization improve it’s IT risk management using the “Three Lines of Defense Model” 

We will discuss optimal IT risk management processes and governance models using more advanced implementations of the IIA’s “Three Lines of Defense Model”. We will also discuss the role of other IT Risk management models such as COBIT, NIST, and others in connection with the implementation of the “Three Lines of Defense Model” as well as the role and impact on IT Internal Audit following an organization’s successful deployment of the more advanced “Three Lines of Defense Model”. The presentation will conclude with a model for your consideration that will allow you to further enhance your IT internal audit function. We will provide examples drawn from discussions with practicing corporate internal audit groups, real world practice summaries drawn from interviews with internal audit and IT management leaders in industry, and recommendations drawn from those experiences to help you improve your IT internal audit risk assessments and IT internal auditing activities to improve IT risk management processes, IT security, and other IT processes in relation to the model.