The Daily Information Source For Compliance Executives
February 27, 2007
Issue 4
Main Feature:
Talk From The Top
It is with great pleasure that we bring the exclusive thoughts of Arkadi Kuhlmann, Chairman, President and CEO of ING DIRECT USA, to the readers of Compliance Executive.

Leading Contribution:
The Top 5 Essentials of Compliance
Effective risk and compliance management is not a one-time fix according to Ted Frank, President of Axentis.

Bad Data Means Bad Decisions
Says Nakis Papadopoulos, joint CEO at business intelligence specialist IMGroup.

Industry Insight:
Read the latest from Steve Wright who has a few things to say about the £1 million fine dished out to Nationwide Building Society by the Financial Services Authority earlier this month.
There’s also the latest from Alan Calder, who’s keen to emphasize that information security has a fundamentally important role to play in SOX compliance. And if you missed it, Diana Newcombe, looks at the McNulty Memorandum in her column.
Coming Up:
Operational Improvement Through GRC
Read the thoughts of four industry experts who discuss the role of technology in GRC today.
Encryption For Mobile Hosts: Protection On The Fly
The thoughts of Eric Maiwald, Senior Analyst for Burton Group's Security and Risk Management Strategies service.
Read the latest additions to the Blog Spot – a collection of thoughts from around the industry. Featuring: LogLogic Blog, The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Re:TheAuditors, Jim Hamilton's World of Securities Regulation, and PCI and Data Security Compliance.
Do you want to find out what’s being said by the leading figures on the GRC landscape? Click here to see what’s on the agenda.
Spotlight Conferences:
McAfee Business Risk Management – 15 March 2007, Vinopolis, London
McAfee’s Business Risk management conference for the IT and Financial Services sector will enable senior level executives to benchmark their risk strategies against McAfee’s, and is free to attend by invitation. For more information to register visit www.spgmedia.com/mcafee
Black Hat Europe, March 27-30 in Amsterdam
The European version of the famous Black Hat conference, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. It will convene 400+ delegates from 35 nations for two days each of Training (10 classes) and Briefings (20 presentations in 4 tracks) and will showcase solutions from 10 top sponsors including Google, Codenomicon and Microsoft. It is supported by most of Europe's leading infosec associations and media.
www.blackhat.com.
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