Dear All,
Matthias Kraft, Board Member for Specialist Groups, will be stepping down from his position on 30 September 2025 for personal reasons.
We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks for his many years of dedicated service on the Board. With his energy, ideas and commitment, he has had a significant impact on and further developed the professional group work of our chapter. We are therefore all the more delighted that he will remain associated with us in the future – as part of the management team of the Innovation & TechTalk professional group and as a lecturer for the ITRAM training and cyber courses.
On 21 July, we informed you that our Chapter President had been appointed to the international Board of Directors of ISACA and had to step down as President of ISACA Germany Chapter e. V. Julia Hermann has taken over the role on an interim basis until a new President is elected.
In accordance with the statutes, the board has now decided that no extraordinary general meeting will be held.
The election of the new chapter board will take place at the next ordinary general meeting on 29 June 2026.
If you are interested in working on the board, please contact our office! |
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1. Changes on the Chapter Board 2. Cyberwomen 2025 - Raffle 3. IT GRC Congress 2026: Call for applications Programme Committee
PUBLICATIONS: 4.‘Security use cases - a catalogue’ guide from the Cyber Security specialist group 5. Blog post by Dr Tim Sattler
EVENTS: 6. Innovation & Tech Talk Online Event (18.09.2025) 7. X-Mas Get-Together (05.12.2025)
PARTNER EVENTS:
8. 1SECURITY4WOMEN 2025 (06.11.2025) 9. CAST Events
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| | | Cyberwomen 2025 – raffle
1 September was International Women's in Cyber Day. We thought we'd celebrate a little longer and use this occasion to raffle off two tickets for Cyberwomen 2025 – under the motto: ‘Win a ticket, go with a friend!’
👉 Here's how you can enter the prize draw: Send us an email by 14 September 2025 to geschaeftsstelle@isaca.de with the subject line ‘Cyberwomen Verlosung 2025’.
We'll keep our fingers crossed for you and look forward to maybe seeing you at Cyberwomen! 💜
The event will take place on Tuesday, 23 September 2025, starting at 9:00 a.m. in Cologne (Holzmarkt 2, Rheinauhafen).
You can find the agenda on the event website. Tickets for the event are available from the CYBERWOMEN ticket shop. |
| | Call for applications Programme Committee
What makes the IT GRC Congress so special? Above all, the variety and quality of the contributions, which our programme committee helps to shape every year.
For the IT GRC Congress 2026 on 29/30 June 2026 in Berlin, we are once again looking for committed members who would like to work on the programme committee.
If you are interested in supporting us and are an ISACA member, please send an email including a short pitch describing why exactly you are the perfect candidate to IT-GRC-Kongress@isaca.de by 29 October 2025.
📋 What are the tasks of the programme committee?
- Monthly virtual JourFix
- Definition of the programme structure
- Definition of the evaluation criteria and adaptation of the form for the call for papers
- Selection of keynotes and organisation of further programme elements (e.g. panel discussion)
- Evaluation of the submissions
- Presence meeting on 30.01. or 06.02.2026 at the Estrel Berlin
- Virtual meetings to discuss the assessments (as required)
- Virtual meetings with the selected speakers (review of slides regarding content and layout)
- Creation of social media posts during the congress
- Writing a conference report (IT governance journal, website, etc.)
- Moderation of the tracks at the IT GRC Congress
- Stand-by team for short-term tasks during the IT GRC Congress
🎁 What are the benefits of participating? As a member of the programme committee you will receive
- a free ticket to attend the IT GRC Congress 2026,
- reimbursement of travel expenses including accommodation in the congress hotel
- a dinner together on the evening before the congress
- the opportunity to claim CPEs for your activities.
⏰ Timetable
- Application deadline: 29 October 2025
- Selection decision: 19 November 2025
- Start of the programme committee: 1 December 2025
We look forward to receiving your applications! |
| | ‘Security use cases - a catalogue’ guide from the Cyber Security specialist group
The guide ‘Security Use-Cases - a catalogue’ from our Cyber Security specialist group offers a system-independent and practice-oriented catalogue of 42 security use-cases for the effective monitoring and detection of security-relevant events.It is aimed at auditors, CISOs, compliance officers, risk managers and security professionals and supports small and medium-sized organisations in particular in implementing practical cyber defence measures to increase IT and OT security. The catalogue promotes the implementation of use cases through a risk-based approach and provides templates for documentation and reporting. This helps organisations to set up the implemented measures in a structured manner and to present them to auditors and supervisory authorities in a transparent and comprehensible manner, which is essential for compliance with NIS-2 and DORA.
You can download the guide from our website here. |
| | Blog post by Dr Tim Sattler
We would like to draw your attention to a very readable blog post by our former President Dr Tim Sattler: ‘How ISACA Is Building the Next Generation of Leaders’.
It highlights how ISACA is developing targeted programmes - e.g. in local chapters, through the Chair's Fellowship Programme and through leadership training - so that we can all grow not only professionally, but also in leadership roles.
For anyone thinking about getting more involved with ISACA or taking the next step in their membership, the article provides plenty of inspiration. Click here for the article.
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| | Innovation & Tech Talk Online Event
The next virtual TechTalk of the Innovation & Tech Talk specialist group will take place on 18 September 2025 from 11:00 to 12:00 on the topic of ‘EU obligations for AI models - guidelines from August 2025’.
In this talk, Michael Morgenthaler will provide an introduction to the basics of the ‘Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence’ (AI Regulation) and the specific guidelines that have been in place since July 2025 as a result of the EU Commission decision, in particular the rules of the Regulation on General Purpose AI (GPAI), e.g. Large Language Models (LLM) as the basis for many chatbots.
You will receive 1 CPE for participating. Further information and the link for registration can be found here. |
| | X-Mas Get-Together
This year we are once again inviting you to an X-Mas Get-Together - a special networking event in a festive atmosphere. Take the opportunity to exchange ideas with other ISACA members in a relaxed, pre-Christmas atmosphere.
The Get-Together will take place on 5 December 2025, from 5 pm at Tollwood Munich (Theresienwiese, 80336 Munich).
Please register for the event via this Eventbrite link.
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| | | 1SECURITY4WOMEN 2025
On 6 November 2025 in Bonn, 1SECURITY4WOMEN will enter its 9th round, offering women and like-minded people from the security industry the opportunity to come together and exchange ideas.
This year, everything revolves around the topic "The changing world: the future of security". In addition to an exciting panel discussion, there will once again be a variety of keynotes, this year from Simone Carstens and Dr Judith Wunschik, among others. There will also be an opportunity to familiarise yourself with AI honeypots as a game changer in the fight against cybercrime.
You can look forward to exciting presentations and the opportunity to network with leading experts in the industry.
🗓️ When: 6 November 2025, 9.30-16.00 |
| | CAST Events
Upcoming events organised by our cooperation partner CAST e. V.: ISACA members receive a 25% discount on participation fees. |
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| | Due to the increased demand for our CISA and CISM exam preparation courses, we have expanded our offering for 2025. For the first time, we are also offering the CISM exam preparation course in German - so that an even wider range of participants can benefit from it. Further dates and our complete range of training courses, including detailed information, can be found on our website under "Training & Events". For a quick overview, we recommend our seminar flyer.
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You can register via the respective seminar website. Please note that member discounts can only be calculated when you are logged in.
We also offer almost all of our seminars as in-house events. If you are interested, please contact our office.
You will receive continuing professional development hours (CPEs) for participating in our courses. |
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We look forward to your seminar registration!
Yours sincerely
The office of the ISACA Germany Chapter e. V.
You can find more information about our association on our homepage at www.isaca.de. You can read the monthly newsletter of ISACA Global here. |
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Board:
Julia Hermann (Interim President, Vice President - Communications and Marketing), Thomas O. Englerth (Vice President - Certifications), Dirk Meissner (Vice President - Finance & Administration), Markus Gaulke (Vice President - Continuing Education), Prof Dr Matthias Goeken (Vice President - Publications), Matthias Kraft (Vice President - Specialist Groups)
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