Shannon Donahue

Shannon is responsible for leading ISACA’s learning and credentialing offerings, including the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), and the CSX Cybersecurity Practitioner (CSX-P) certifications. She also is responsible for leading ISACA’s content and framework development along with editorial and publishing efforts, including the ISACA Journal and COBIT suite.

Shannon has more than 25 years of experience in IT and information security and 15 years of experience leading content development. Prior to ISACA, Shannon had roles as information security officer at Harper College, where she had responsibility for all of information security as well as voice operations, and as a senior technical architect with AT&T, where she spent nine years handling security and network incident response along with disaster recovery for global managed service customers. Shannon has a Ph.D. in Information Security and a master’s degree in Management & Systems, and holds active CISM, CDPSE and CISSP certifications.