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Keeping the pace: IT risk challenges for Audit Committees (Joint event with Malta Forum for Internal Auditors) |
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 10:03 |
Keeping the pace
IT Risk Challenges for Audit Committee
Audit committees have become a crucial element of public company governance. While their primary focus has typically been on external financial reporting and auditor oversight, they typically also oversee internal risk management and internal audit functions. With the increasing dependence on complex IT systems to support both financial reporting and business operations, audit committees need a good understanding of a company's IT systems, the major risks these represent to reporting and operations, and how effectively these are being managed.
This session aims to provide audit committee members and internal auditors with some practical insights and tools to provide effective IT governance by the audit committee. The session will start by putting the audit committee within a company's broader IT governance context, to highlight and help clarify its scope and remit in relation to IT. Using an illustrative system and typical core business process, the session will then explore how audit committees, by requesting standard IT information and reporting, and posing some key questions in relation to IT, can gain a good understanding of IT, and also assess and challenge the adequacy of related risk management. Finally, some pointers and tools will be provided in relation to the audit committee’s key IT governance roles around external reporting, internal and external audit/assurance, and broader risk management, especially in environments characterised by significant IT change and complex sourcing arrangements.
Sponsors
Thursday 23rd May 2013
Registration opens at 14:00
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Hilton Malta Hotel
Portomaso, St Julians
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Educational Event: IT Risk Management – An Introduction |
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 16:58 |
IT Risk Management – An Introduction
IT has grown from humble beginnings to being the most powerful tool a business can use, squeezing its way even into the boardroom of most organisations. Inevitably, if left unchecked IT risks will find their way into the business with dire consequences. On the other hand, knowing and managing these risks will enable organisations to optimise IT resources and get more value from their IT investments.
This presentation will introduce basic concepts of generic risk management and IT risk management, why is risk management necessary and common practices to achieve best results. The talk will also explore some of the more advanced topics such as risk analysis techniques, different data replication methods, and how to translate IT risks into their business equivalents, thus creating better communication channels between technical and non-technical personnel.
Speaker Biography: Mr. Mark Fenech
Mark Fenech started his professional career in 1996 as a C++ developer. Along his early career years he progressed through various technical roles such as system and network administration and design, and today he is Disaster Recovery Manager with BOV. Mark is also a member of various committees and workgroups within the same bank. In the course of his career, Mark’s skills diverged from being purely technical to include other domains such as Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Risk Assessments and Analysis and Business Impact Analysis. Mark has a BSc is Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Malta and holds an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management. He is also Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) from ISACA.
Event Details
Date: Thursday 16th March 2013 between 17:00 to 19:00
Location: Radisson Blu, St.Julians
ISACA MALTA CHAPTER Members are invited to attend this educational event free of charge. They in turn, can be accompanied by a colleague / non-member to attend also free of charge (Bring-a-Collegue Initiative).
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A Business Breakfast organised by the ISACA Malta Chapter on the 3rd of May 2013 |
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Thursday, 11 April 2013 07:55 |
Dramatically Improving Customer Service: A Case Study - Service Level Agreements, Organisational Change, and Supporting Technology
Friday 3rd May 2013
Registration opens at 8:30
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Corinthia Hotel St George's Bay
Any organisation intent on capturing and retaining customers will find good practices to adapt and apply to their line of business. Service Level Agreements ? for IT services, and more generally, are regularly deployed by Banks, Telecoms companies, Utilities, Ports / Airports, as well as by Governments. Such organisations deploy IT metrics and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to assure high service availability to citizens and customers, both existing and prospective service recipients. Service at its best is the best service marketing!
The goal of the session is to describe a CobiT-based approach to setting metrics using the case study of a Turkish Telco and how it implemented a set of Service Level Agreements (SLA's) and Operational Level Agreements (OLA's) that improved customer service. All this was achieved during a turbulent period of high growth.
Agenda
08.30 - Registration,
09:00 - Breakfast
09.30 - ISACA Malta President welcomes Kaya Kazmirci, Past President, ISACA Istanbul Chapter
09.35 - Dramatically Improving Customer Service: a Case Study, by Kaya Kazmirci, BS CISA CISM CISSP
11.00 - Questions from the floor
Who Should Attend
The event will benefit the following roles and positions:
- Chief Information Officers / Chief Technology Officers
- Heads of IT
- IT Service Managers
- IT Assurance Managers
- Service Quality Managers
- Business Continuity Managers
- IT Auditors & IT Governance Consultants
- Audit Committee Members and Internal Auditors
- Regulators
ISACA Members: €40
Non Members: €55
Relevant CPE credits are awarded
Speaker Biography
Kaya Kazmirci is presently developing mobile applications and offering security services. He was previously the Internal Audit Director for a telecommunications operator in Turkey, and the Head of Procurement in three countries for Ericsson. Kaya has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Sciences modified with Computer Science and Electronics from Dartmouth College. Kaya also holds the CISA, CISM and CISSP professional certifications Kaya has over 30 years of experience in Business and Information Technology. His experience extends to restructuring the IT function and implementing audit methodologies in large banks and telecommunication operators. Kaya’s has performed extensive reviews of financial management systems including: banking, billing and charging (Telco), accounting and ERP (SAP & Oracle) systems. Kaya also provided technical, operational, organisational, security and theoretical advice to Internet and e-Commerce focused organisations. He is well versed in IT Frameworks and Standards, such as CobiT and the International Standard 27001 for Information Security Management, WebTrust, and Systrust. Kaya is a Past President of the ISACA Istanbul Chapter
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The changing legal landscape within data protection law (Updated: Slides) |
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Tuesday, 05 March 2013 08:06 |
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Date: Thursday 21st March 2013 17:00 to 19:00
Location: Radisson Blu, St.Julians
ISACA MALTA CHAPTER Members are invited to attend this educational event free of charge. They in turn, can be accompanied by a colleague / non-member to attend also free of charge (Bring-a-Collegue Initiative).
Session Details: The changing legal landscape within data protection law
In this session, we will be discussing the following topics:
- The right to privacy and informational self determination
- Historical background on Data Protection (DP) legislation and salient DP Principles
- The impact of technology on DP law
- Detailed analysis of the new DP Regulation and its effect on companies processing Personal data
Speaker Biography: Dr. Antonio Ghio
Dr. Antonio Ghio heads the ICT law Department at Fenech & Fenech Advocates and specializes in telecommunications law, data protection, Intellectual property law, e-commerce, remote gaming and internet law. For the past eleven years his work has solely revolved around ICT law issues and trying to find solutions that the constant struggle between law and technology creates, both inside and outside of the courtrooms. Ghio also lectures ICT law and Cyber Crime at the University of Malta and is the Chairman of the Malta Communications Authority after having served as a member of the board of directors for over four years. He has an LL.M in ICT law from the University of Strathclyde. He is a regular speaker on ICT and IP law issues in conferences both locally and abroad. He also serves as EU Digital Champion for Malta.
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COBIT 5: An Introduction (Update: SLIDES) |
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 22:29 |
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Access the SLIDES
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