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WEBINAR
"GRC Industry Survey 2008:
A Benchmark for Compliance Programs and Spend"
April 29, 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT
Speakers: Sanjay Anand, Chairperson of the SOX Institute; Chrisan Herrod, Executive Editor, The Compliance Authority

FEATURES
Global Compliance Initiatives: What do They Mean for Me?
BY ROB AYOUB

As the need to protect data moves from a local to a global concern, many governments are taking notice and have implemented their own versions of data-protection laws. Is your company ready?

Identity Auditing: Key to Successful IT Compliance
BY TOM REPEDE

Protect yourself against financial or operational offenses, such as fraud, identity theft, loss of trade secrets or privacy problems. The key is identity auditing.

Governance and The Board of Directors: Taking IT from the Backroom to the Boardroom
BY SANJAY ANAND



Learn how to integrate IT into the boardroom so the board and the executives are able to lead the way in recognizing the importance and value of IT throughout the organization.
[WEBINAR: Taking IT from the Backroom to the Boardroom!]

Five Core Competencies of IT Compliance Six Sigma
BY CHRISAN HERROD
IT compliance management is a critical component of information technology processes and procedures and therefore should be treated as a “core competency” as it relates to the analysis of success factors in IT organizations.

The Role and Responsibility of a Chief Compliance Officer
BY GUY F. TALARICO, J.D.

A firm’s chief compliance officer (CCO) is the executive responsible for the team that evaluates the activities of the firm and identifies and corrects compliance issues for the enterprise.

What can Government Agencies (like the SEC) Teach You About Compliance?
BY DAVID WILSON
Most private businesses don’t look to government agencies as models for success about, well, much of anything. But, as a much older saying goes, there’s often an exception that tests the rule.

Technical Challenges to Electronic Discovery
BY RUSSELL SHUMWAY
Under the newly updated Federal Rules of Evidence, electronic discovery has taken on new emphasis. Technical staff now have a pivotal role in the process.

From IT Compliance to IT Governance - Managing Risk Within the IT Organization
BY SANJAY ANAND
Although Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) have traditionally been viewed in the domain of accounting, finance, ethics and law, your IT department must now take responsiblity for its share of the impact on business as well.

ARCHIVES
Categorizing a System: Why must this be so hard?
BY GARY TARBET
Categorizing information systems based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199 is difficult for even the most knowledgeable information security professional. Why is this?

Information Technology Compliance Best Practices
BY ALAN BELSHAW
In recent years, international, federal, state and local legislative and regulatory bodies have introduced a plethora of compliance laws and standards that have given rise to an information technology compliance “industry”. This must seem to the onlooker like a maze of buzzwords (HIPAA, SOX, CFR, GLB), each of which would seem to address their own version of compliance to their own intended audience.

Information Systems Security Engineering in the Acquisition of Secure Information Systems
BY BRYAN S. CLINE
Obstacles implementing a security engineering program in support of certification and accreditation and enteprise security compliance are arguably similar to those org-anizations experience with traditional quality programs.

Winning Cooperation with the Magic Question "Why?"
by MARGARET E. ANDERSON
We all need things from others— goods, services, information, and most of all, cooperation. If other people don’t offer what we need willingly, if we aren’t positioned to demand it, or if, in the interest of future good will, we’d rather not resort to demands, we try to persuade them.

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WEBINAR
GRC Industry Survey sets a Benchmark for Compliance Programs and Spend
April 29, 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT. Register for the webinar here >> Length: 60 Minutes

Speakers:
Sanjay Anand, Chairperson of the SOX Institute
Chrisan Herrod, Executive Editor, The Compliance Authority

WEBINAR ARCHIVES
Taking IT from the Backroom to the Boardroom!
Sanjay Anand, Chairperson, Sarbanes-Oxley Institute and Chrisan Herrod, Managing Director, IT Compliance Magazine

From IT Compliance to IT Governance: Managing Risk within the IT Organization / Assessing the ROI for IT Compliance: A Systems Approach (Part 1)
Sanjay Anand, Chairperson, Sarbanes-Oxley Institute and Victor N. Berlin, Ph.D., President, University of Fairfax

IT Change and Configuration Management
Rob Ayoub, Industry Manager, Network Security Technologies, Frost & Sullivan and Victor N. Berlin, Ph.D., President, University of Fairfax

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