<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Dr. Nath Alagbe: articles and The Evidence Brief</title><description>Practical perspectives on technology risk, IT audit, third-party risk, cybersecurity, and AI governance.</description><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Closed is not the same as fixed: validating remediation before the issue closes</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/closed-is-not-fixed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/closed-is-not-fixed/</guid><description>An issue closed on management assertion is not a risk reduced. How to agree closure criteria up front, test that the fix works over time, and report aging and repeat findings honestly.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>IT controls</category><category>Risk reporting</category></item><item><title>The Evidence Brief, Issue 1: Assurance language is not evidence</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/evidence-brief-01-assurance-language-is-not-evidence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/evidence-brief-01-assurance-language-is-not-evidence/</guid><description>Words like reviewed, monitored, and in place sound like control. They are claims. Here is how to tell a claim from proof, and how to ask for the difference.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Newsletter</category><category>IT controls</category><category>Risk reporting</category></item><item><title>Shadow AI is already inside your organization. Start with an inventory, not a ban.</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/shadow-ai-is-already-inside-your-organization/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/shadow-ai-is-already-inside-your-organization/</guid><description>Banning AI tools pushes use out of sight. Find what is already running, triage it by risk, and make the approved path easier than the workaround.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>AI governance</category><category>AI audit</category></item><item><title>Six AI questions every board should ask management</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/six-ai-questions-every-board-should-ask/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/six-ai-questions-every-board-should-ask/</guid><description>Directors do not need technical depth to oversee AI. Six plain questions, with what a good answer sounds like and the red flags that should prompt a follow-up.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>AI governance</category><category>Risk reporting</category></item><item><title>The recovery plan nobody has tested: ransomware resilience as a control</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/the-recovery-plan-nobody-has-tested/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/the-recovery-plan-nobody-has-tested/</guid><description>A recovery plan that has never been exercised is a hope, not a control. What it takes to prove you can restore after ransomware, from immutable backups and full restores to the dependencies nobody planned for.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>Cybersecurity and cloud</category><category>IT controls</category></item><item><title>When AI acts on its own: what agentic AI changes about your controls</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/when-ai-acts-on-its-own/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/when-ai-acts-on-its-own/</guid><description>AI agents send, approve, change, and buy, not just suggest. That shifts the control model toward agent identity, action limits, traceable decisions, real human oversight, and a way to stop.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>AI governance</category><category>AI audit</category></item><item><title>Why access reviews pass the audit and still fail the business</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/why-access-reviews-pass-audit-and-still-fail/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/why-access-reviews-pass-audit-and-still-fail/</guid><description>A signed access certification proves a review happened, not that access is right. How to fix the population, the reviewer, and the revocation evidence so the review actually reduces risk.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>IT controls</category><category>Cybersecurity and cloud</category></item><item><title>Who owns the AI decision?</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/who-owns-the-ai-decision/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/who-owns-the-ai-decision/</guid><description>Questions about approval, performance review and escalation across the AI lifecycle. Establish who owns the use case and who acts when conditions change.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>AI governance</category><category>AI audit</category></item><item><title>Does the assessment still reflect the service?</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/does-the-assessment-still-reflect-the-service/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/does-the-assessment-still-reflect-the-service/</guid><description>A practical perspective on vendor reassessment triggers, assurance scope and the control responsibilities an organization retains.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>Third-party risk</category></item><item><title>What decision does this report support?</title><link>https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/what-decision-does-this-report-support/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nathalagbe.com/resources/what-decision-does-this-report-support/</guid><description>Connect risk movement and control performance with accountable ownership and the action management needs to consider.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Article</category><category>Risk reporting</category><category>IT controls</category></item></channel></rss>