ISACA Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter
Serving ISACA GWDC Members since 1974
Upcoming Chapter Events
Below are upcoming chapter conferences, seminars, review courses, and other events. Prior chapter events can also be viewed.
For information on our event policies, see https://isaca-gwdc.org/event-policies/.
This one-day virtual seminar is designed for students who want to learn different ways that PowerShell® can be used in performing audits. Students will learn the basics of PowerShell, including commands to import, view, summarize, and export data. Students will also be taught how PowerShell can be used to obtain data from Windows Event Logs, […]
This one-day virtual seminar is designed for students to expand their skills in using PowerShell® to perform audits. This course explores two fundamental aspects of using PowerShell: working with data and scripting. PowerShell has vast capabilities for working with a variety of data and auditors can use these capabilities to analyze, organize, and export data […]
Auditors and IT professionals work with large amounts of data, requiring the need for a variety of tools to help them obtain, review, analyze, and/or export this data. One of the most versatile (and free) tools for working with data is PowerShell®, which is included with the Windows OS. While designed as a systems administration […]
Nessus® is a popular vulnerability scanning tool used by organizations to identify, assess, and manage software vulnerabilities. Reports generated by Nessus provide a wealth of information to auditors and security professionals about system vulnerabilities. In addition to webpage style reports, Nessus results can also be exported into an XML file (.nessus) that contain the full […]
The GWDC is sponsoring an intensive 4-day virtual review course for the Certified Information System Auditor® (CISA®) exam. This review course will provide practical advice on preparing for the CISA exam and specific instruction regarding the job practice areas addressed by CISA as defined by ISACA® Global. The dates of this course are four (4) consecutive […]
Auditors performing audits of Windows systems inevitably need to obtain information from Active Directory®, Microsoft’s platform for providing directory services to Windows and other devices. Whether it’s data on user accounts, computer accounts, group membership, or configurations in group policy objects, Active Directory is often a critical data source for Windows system audits. While Active […]
As organizations continue to move their data and applications to the cloud, auditors need skills to audit cloud environments. Though environments may be FedRAMP authorized and/or subject to external assessments, organizations will have responsibilities for certain activities, such as account management, privileged access, and some configuration settings. Thus, auditors will need to access cloud data […]
Auditors and IT professionals work with large amounts of data, requiring the need for a variety of tools to help them obtain, review, analyze, and/or export this data. One of the most versatile (and free) tools for working with data is PowerShell®, which is included with the Windows OS. While designed as a systems administration […]
Audit logs are an invaluable resource to identify activities that have occurred on a system. Logs are analyzed for a wide variety of reasons, from researching system performance issues to responding to a cyberattack. While there are a variety of software applications designed to ingest and analyze logs, they can often be expensive. PowerShell provides […]
The ISACA Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter (GWDC) is hosting an intensive 5-day virtual review course for the Certified Information Systems Auditor® (CISA®) Exam. This course is designed to provide practical guidance on preparing for the CISA exam and will cover the essential job practice areas as defined by ISACA® Global. Importantly, this course maps directly […]
