Executive Day on Information Security:
Compliance, Challenges, and Solutions (One Day; 8 CPE Hours)

What are today’s business drivers for information security? How do existing and emerging financial reporting laws and regulations affect how you should be changing the way you do business? How should your organization be re-structured to comply? What is your executive responsibility for governing information security?

Today, every executive must understand information security from a business perspective. Information security today is much more than IT security of yesterday. Financial reporting requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley in the U.S., the United Kingdom’s Combined Code, Canada’s Multi-Lateral Instrument 52-109, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) now hold executive management and the board of directors accountable for how information security is managed throughout the organization, leading to a new comprehensive enterprise-wide approach to security management as it relates to Risk Management, Audit, Legal and Regulatory Compliance, Strategic Planning, IT and IT Security, Human Resources, Facilities and Physical Security, Change Management, Project Management, and even Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery/Emergency Response.

What you will learn:
This concise business seminar tells business leaders exactly what they need to know to make intelligent business decisions about organizational security – without ever getting lost in the technical complexities. The seminar offers realistic, step-by-step recommendations for evaluating and improving information security in any enterprise. From start to finish, the focus is on action: what works and how to get it done. This is NOT a technical course. This is a business course informing executive and senior management what they need to know about the business drivers and requirements for information security, as well as key cross-functional information security roles and responsibilities for Board Members,  Executive Management Human Resources, Operations, Legal, Information Security Management (CISO), Technology Management, Facilities Management, and Finance.

• Understand your executive security challenges, obligations, and accountability.
• Learn how to better utilize an information security steering committee to achieve convergence of information security policies and management throughout the organization.
• Understand key cross-functional information security roles and responsibilities for department heads, business process owners, and information security steering committee members.
• Learn how the organization can use a risk based approach to internal controls management to reduce costs and optimize protection and compliance.
• Learn how your organization can systematically identify your risks and vulnerabilities.
• Learn how your organization can implement best-practice processes for access, acceptable use, training, strategy, and emergency response. Learn how your organization can establish and monitor security internal security controls according to respected international frameworks and standards such as:
  • ISO/IEC 17799:2005; ISO/IEC 27001:2005
  • CobiT
  • ITIL
• Learn effective executive leadership, governance, and metrics.
• Staffing security – Learn how to cope with a shortage of expertise.
• You and your team will be performing 12 in-class gap assessments, resulting in your own custom executive summary gap assessment for your enterprise-wide information security program that clearly indicates what is most critical to initiate or improve your program, and how to best move forward in doing it throughout all departments in the organization.
• Attendees will receive a course completion certificate for 8 hours of CPE credit applicable to most accounting, legal, and information security continuing professional education requirements.

Whether you're a CEO, CFO, COO, CIO, a line-of-business executive, or an IT executive who needs to get colleagues up to speed, this is the non-technical, business-driven information security briefing you've been searching for. Constantly revised according to changing business requirements and corresponding best practices, the Executive Day on Information Security: Compliance, Challenges, and Solutions seminar will ensure you and key senior managers are completely up-to-date with the information you need to manage your organization in a fast-paced, rapidly changing business environment.

Target Audience:

• CEO / CFO / COO / CIO / CISO
• Information Security Managers
• Compliance Officer
• Revenue Protection Management
• Business Continuity Planners, Coordinators, and Team Members
• Business Process Owners (Department Heads)

Led by Allen Keele, this course delivers advanced information security knowledge essential to your organization, and delivers it in a way that does not rely upon prerequisite knowledge.  However, this course has been designed with management staff in mind.  We recommend at least two years of professional experience associated with any of the above target audience in order to gain maximum benefit from this course.

Upon Course Completion:

At the end of the course, students will have an excellent understanding of a wide variety of information security topics.  Attendees will receive a course completion certificate for 8 hours of CPE credit applicable to most accounting, legal, and information security continuing professional education requirements.

Course Pricing, Scheduling, and Registration:

Our courses are offered at various locations across the United States and around the world.  Please visit our online event schedule for a current listing of course times and locations, or to request course pricing or other information.