20th Anniversary Celebration

On 23 April 2008 the Chapter celebrated it's 20th Anniversary with a fabulous training event at Manchester Town Hall. 

Over 70 members attended the full-day event, which was opened by a presentation from the International ISACA President, Lynn Lawton, and closed with a drinks reception and live music.

In between, there were excellent presentations from a wide variety of respected professionals.  As the slides become available we will provide them for complimentary download:

Presidential Address - Lynn Lawton, CISA, FCA, FIIA, FBCS, CITP, - ISACA International President

Lynn is the international president of ISACA and the IT Governance Institute (ITGI).  Previously, she was a vice president on ISACA’s International Board from 1999 to 2002, and returned to the International Board as an appointed director of ISACA and Chair of the Assurance Committee in 2006. Lynn has been a member of ISACA since 1989 and served on the Northern England UK Chapter board for 10 years, including six years as chapter president. She has more than 20 years’ experience providing IT assurance services and security advice across a range of industries.
 

“IT Governance for all” - Roger Southgate

Roger has been an active user of COBIT since 1999, and has participated in both the promotion and ongoing development of COBIT since 2002. He spent 18 years in Investment Banking, delivering IT services and value, during which time he honed a pragmatic approach, built upon a breadth and depth of experience. He is an independent consultant specialising in IT Governance. He has delivered IT Governance / COBIT training in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Roger is the current President of the London Chapter of ISACA.
 

“Maximising Value from IT” - Chris Tiernan FIMIS, FBCS, CITP

Chris is Managing Partner of Grosvenor Consultancy Services, which specialises in advising both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations on optimising value from business change involving IT and engaging and managing outsourcers, on- and off-shore.

He is Immediate Past Chair of the Trustees of The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), an educational charity with 12,000 students and members around the world. He sat on the British Computer Society’s Professionalism in IT Executive Board and is on the BCS Elite Committee for IT Directors. He is a frequent presenter on the subject of value and IT and has had a paper published in conjunction with Cranfield in the European Management Journal.

Chris is a member of the international Val IT Core Development Team. Val IT.  In 2007/8 he co-authored Version 2 of The Val IT Framework, which is due to be published in April 2008.
 

ISACA Business Model for Information Security - Vernon Poole

ISACA’s Global Security Management Committee is working on developing a new Business Model on Information Security. Vernon is the UK representative of the Committee, based on his global training & consultancy experience.

The Business Model for Information Security looks at four major foundations – Organisation, People, Processes & Technology – and describes the ‘tensions’ (dynamic interconnections) that influence how these foundations function to deliver business/service success.

The tensions cover issues like governing; culture; human factors; enabling & support; and emergence.

How the model works and the challenges and opportunities that the model can bring to organisations will be discussed in detail.

Vernon is Head of Business Consultancy for Sapphire.  He began his career in consultancy with CAPITA and has over 20 years experience in information security management consultancy & training. He has also worked in the public sector (local & central government) and with Aid to Industry (audit & security training group) – the latter being acquired by Deloitte which resulted in Vernon becoming a European leader performing a number of Information Security and Control related assessments on behalf of a number of major clients.
 

Continuous Auditing, Kevin Handscombe, KPMG

Details to follow.
 

“20 Ways to Lose Your Data (The twenty things you need to know about how security fails)” - Stan Dormer BsC, FIIA

In this session Stan Dormer of MindGrove took us back to basics to demonstrate how the simplest of techniques can defeat the most sophisticated of systems. He brought together the less familiar sides of technology and software and added a dash of the dark side of behavioural psychology to show just how thin the safety curtain of security really is, after twenty years of intelligent software design.

Stan Dormer is Director of Education and Training for MindGrove and a world recognised expert in the field of information systems technologies and governance.

Stan has a wealth of experience in the fields of research, risk and project management, IT security, compliance and auditing.  Additionally, Stan has developed numerous training programmes, authored several IT articles and publications, and is a well respected speaker, being a frequent presenter at high profile events.
 

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