The Daily Information Source For Compliance Executives
March 20th, 2007
Issue 5
The Daily Information Source For Compliance Executives
March 20th, 2007
Issue 5
Main Feature:
Pushing PCI to the Masses
Seana Pitt, Chairperson of the PCI Security Standards Council, discusses how PCI is protecting customer data up and down the global payment processing chain.
Leading Contribution:
Time To Get Real About Risk
When a disaster strikes, the difference between organizations that have well developed business continuity plans and those that don't is easy to see. By Justin Clark, business continuity consultant at BT
How The Recovery Company Recovered
Rick Belluzzo, Chairman and CEO of data storage specialist Quantum, discusses his plans to reboot the company into the black after a recent wallet-busting US$770 million acquisition.
Industry Insight:
Read the latest from Alan Calder who discusses the divide between the information security technologists, on the one hand, and business users and managers, on the other.
There’s also the latest from Diana Newcombe who looks at ensuring the compliance of contractors, agents and third parties. And if you missed it, take a look at Adrian Bowles’ article Continuous Compliance vs Continuous Trust: Think Like Your Customers.
Coming Up:
Protecting the Future: Why BSA Compliance is Essential for Financial Institutions
Lisa D. Arquette, Associate Director for the FDIC’s Anti-Money Laundering & Financial Crimes Branch explains that the vast majority of FDIC-supervised banks has established and continues to maintain policies, procedures, and processes in compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
Putting the Bits Together
Cathy Allen, CEO of leading industry association BITS, shares her thoughts on risk management, fraud and industry collaboration.
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.
White Paper:
Do you know what your authorized internal users are up to?
Your host of anti-intrusion technologies can’t tell you. Read Compuware’s white paper on application auditing to learn how you can take conventional IT security approaches one step further to provide insight on the activities of authorized internal users. Take the necessary precautions - download it today.
URL: http://www.compuware.com/media.asp?cid=701000000004ppT
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
Telecoms Risk Management Seminar 2007 - 26-27 March 2007, Prague
The Telecoms Risk Management Seminar will provide you with a step-by-step approach to Enterprise Risk Management from start-up through to expanding coverage throughout the business. Led by two senior level experts who designed, embedded and managed the ERM project at Cellcom. Visit www.riskmanagement-events.com/seminar2007 <http://www.riskmanagement-events.com/seminar2007> for full details.
www.riskmanagement-events.com/seminar2007
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.
Lending in a Credit Rich Market Different Approaches to Single Business Issues, 2nd & 3rd April - Barcelona, Spain.
The central event for senior executives from the banking field as well as for credit risk professionals that work on the development of risk management policies and management of credit portfolio. Top risk experts will share their experiences with special focus on Basel II developments,credit risk rating systems,credit scoring models and many more. For further information on the conference and registration, please,visit Uniglobal Research website
http://www.uniglobalresearch.eu
Software Security Summit, 16th - 17th April, Marriott | San Mateo, CA
Protecting your software against attack is a bigger issue now than ever before. Learn to protect your software at the upcoming Software Security Summit, the only conference that focuses on security at the applications development level. Register Now!
http://www.s-3con.com
Customer Data Integration and Master Data Management Summit - 30 April - 2 May 2007, London
Europe's premier event on CDI, MDM and data governance. Case studies include British Telecom, Marks & Spencer Money, Irish Life & Permanent, Panasonic Europe, Heineken, Harrods, Allied Bakeries, Choice Hotels, Elisa, Turkcell, The Co-operative Group, Basic American Foods and more…. Compare and contrast the capabilities of all the major CDI-MDM solution providers.
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/cdimdm07
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