A Comprehensive Look at Information Security in Your Organization

Information security is not new - it is as old as human kind as humans have always kept information from their neighbors! This session will explain how and why we are in a better place today to undertake the necessary steps to secure our enterprise’s data.

This session examines the management control structures and relationships necessary to provide ongoing governance to the security activities. The organizations have evolved over the past few years where security compliance has been a major focus. The Board of Directors, senior management, middle management and external auditors are each asking questions which ask, “are we secure…. Enough?” This presentation will examine and discuss Security Governance and how to sustain effective controls over the long term.

There’s no doubt about it: virtualization is the future. With its promises of flexibility, ease of use, and lower costs, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Virtualization have lead IT toward the new outsourced computing model known as Cloud. The success of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) Cloud-based processes have fast become the next-generation SOA solutions for a number of today’s applications. The introduction of these approaches into the traditional enterprise has definite business advantages, but also some serious governance, compliance and security implications. This session will provide details on the impact of Cloud on information security and the data-centric solutions for specific use-cases.

There is continued pressure in today’s corporate environment to do more with less, to reduce costs and to become more agile in order to meet rapidly changing business demands in a difficult global economy. Outsourcing IT security services is often senior management’s response to these challenging times, so the question is not if it will happen, but rather when and how it will happen, if it hasn’t already. This session will discuss lessons learned from real-world experiences from the perspective an enterprise security manager who has first-hand knowledge of how outsourcing certain IT security services to help the attendees continue or begin this journey in their own organizations.

This e-Symposium qualifies for 3 CPE points. To obtain CPE credit, members must download and listen to all event presentations and successfully complete a CPE quiz. To access the quiz, click the CPE button at the top of this page or click the Play button below.