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drs. ing. Ronald Koorn RE CIPP/E

is a partner in the IT Assurance & Advisory unit at KPMG. He focusses on a wide variety of IT Governance, Risk, Compliance and Assurance subjects. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Compact magazine.

Articles and contributions

Spanning fifty years of IT & IT Audit with only four Editors-in-Chief

October 2023 - To commemorate the fifty-year milestone of Compact, the acting Editor-in-Chief interviewed his three predecessors. The early years and history of...

Leveraging technology within Internal Audit Functions

March 2022 - Keeping pace with the business is the trait demanded from Internal Audit Functions (IAFs) today. As organizations continue to evolve...

SOC 2 assurance becomes critical for cloud & IT service providers

April 2021 - Cloud and IT service providers that want to proof their performance in critical, non-functional areas such as Security, Availability, Processing...

Self-driving vehicles: a cat-and-mouse game between innovation and legislation

January 2021 - RDW is tasked with the formal approval of vehicle types and vehicle parts and therefore also with the approval of...

Who Cares About My Privacy and Who Should?

December 2015 - “Privacy is over” is a familiar statement dating from the first internet wave, but is it still true and applicable...

Big Data Analytics & Privacy: How To Resolve This Paradox?

October 2015 - Mind the hype. Big Data is the next big thing in the world of IT, partly as people are becoming...

Privacy by Design: From privacy policy to privacy-enhancing technologies

December 2011 - Privacy protection in organizations is often a matter of legal and organizational procedural measures. However, privacy legislation is also concerned...

e-Procurement and Online Marketplaces

February 2001 - e-Procurement, especially in the shape of online marketplaces, is currently one of the key e-Business applications, as it can generate...

Editorial

October 2023 - 2023 is a red letter year for Compact. This year Compact celebrates its 50th anniversary, just as the Van Gogh...

Editorial

December 2022 - This Compact edition features articles on innovative digital developments. Developments such as Digital Stack for process excellence and Citizen Development,...

Editorial

October 2022 - The creation of each Compact edition generally starts with a broad theme that is currently relevant in Business and/or IT,...

Editorial

July 2022 - As 2022 is halfway, we can reflect on the plethora of technological optimism and advancements, Covid-aside, has been reaching new...

Editorial

March 2022 - Ten years ago, Compact issued an edition highlighting sustainability. Much has changed since then in the area of sustainability, including...

Editorial

January 2021 - The future of mobility Mobility plays a key role in our imagination of the future. The way people and goods...

Editorial

July 2020 - “Every form of payment has some risk associated with it”, Frank Abagnale once said, an infamous, former con artist who...

Editorial

December 2019 - The Auditor: Quo Vadis? ([King18]): “Without significant innovation of its business model, staff recruitment strategies and audit execution processes, the...

Editorial

October 2019 - Board members and CIOs get somewhat nervous if there isn’t a digital transformation underway. Everyone is embarking on their digitization...

Editorial

June 2019 - In our Compact special on ‘Internationalization and the Digital Economy’ (edition 2017), we pointed out that the two biggest disruptions...

Editorial

December 2018 - Transparency of information Albert Einstein’s quote: “Know where to find the information and how to use it – that’s the...

Editorial

October 2017 - IT & Risk Management As Ulrich Beck wrote 25 years ago, we’re living in a risk society. Although the slogan...

Editorial

June 2017 - If we were asked to sum up the biggest disruptions for the traditional industries of the past century, two concepts...