Marc Vael is an expert in information security management, business continuity/disaster recovery, privacy & data protection, enterprise & IT risk management, IT audit & assurance, and cloud computing. He has extensive experience as Chief Audit Executive, board member of several organizations, and lecturer. As a visiting lecturer for ITME, Marc aims to share practical insights from his experiences to provide perspectives on problems and solutions in domains where he has expertise. He presents different lectures each time to incorporate new insights from the evolving fields of IT and the world.

2. Current Career Summary Expertise Summary Education/
Certification
Marc Vael
• Chief Audit Executive of
Smals
• Member of Professional
Influence & Advocacy
Committee of ISACA
International
• President of ISACA Belgium
• Member of Permanent
Stakeholder Group of ENISA
• Deputy member of the
Flemish Privacy
Commission
• Board member of SAI
Belgium vzw
• Information Security
Management
• Business Continuity /
Disaster Recovery
• Privacy & Data
Protection
• Enterprise & IT Risk
Management
• IT Audit & Assurance
• Cloud Computing
• Master in Applied
Economics
• Master in Information Mgt
• Master in IT
• CISA
• CISM
• CISSP
• CGEIT
• CRISC
• ITIL Service Mgr
• Prince2
• Certified Director
ITME Expectations
As visiting lecturer for ITME , Marc sets his goal to share and discuss his experiences with
all the ITME participants in order to provide practical insights in the problems and
solutions. Marc never gives the same lecture twice, because the evolution in IT and the
world always provides new insights and ideas in the domains where Marc has an extensive
expertise.

3. Cybersecurity Governance
the existing frameworks
Marc Vael
November 2015

4. ISACA,
Information
Security
Governance
2nd
edition,
2006

5. Information Security Governance (ISG) is
a subset of enterprise governance that
provides strategic direction,
ensures that objectives are achieved,
manages risks appropriately,
uses organisational resources responsibly,
and
monitors the success or failure of the
enterprise security programme.
Definition

6. Cyber Security Governance (CSG) is
a subset of enterprise governance that
provides strategic direction,
ensures that objectives are achieved,
manages risks appropriately,
uses organisational resources responsibly,
and
monitors the success or failure of the
enterprise security programme.
Definition

7. ISACA,
Information
Security
Governance
2nd
edition,
2006

64. Contact details
Mr. Marc Vael
President
ISACA BELGIUM vzw
Koningsstraat 109 box 5
1000 Brussel
www.isaca.be
www.isaca.org
president@isaca.be
marc@vael.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcvael
@marcvael