Leveraging best-practice frameworks to simplify regulatory compliance

Tackling regulatory compliance on an individual regulation basis is expensive, ineffective and gets in the way of the business. What is needed is a meta-approach that delivers simultaneous compliance to a wide range of current and future regulations, that is cost-effective and which supports the business - and best practice frameworks can deliver this result.

Historically, there have been a number of such frameworks to which organizations could turn. The recent emergence of an official, integrated framework containing CobiT, ITIL and ISO 17799 offers business leaders an outstanding opportunity to import coherence into a sometimes fragmentary operational IT environment.

Areas Covered in the seminar:

• Current and future governance and compliance requirements
• The role of enterprise risk management
• Linkages and similarities between state, national and international regulations
• Why the traditional approach to regulatory compliance no longer works
• Business risks arising from legal contradictions, overlaps and loopholes
• Scale and impact on corporate brand, market position and share value ofregulatory failure
• Key governance requirements of directors
• Role of best practice frameworks
• Linkage between compliance requirements and best practice frameworks
• Background and history of CobiT, ITIL and ISO 17799 - similarities and differences
• Importance of the CobiT/ITIL/ISO17799 joint framework
• Benefits of deploying this best practice framework
• Critical success factors in deploying this framework

What Attendees will Learn:

• They will get a comprehensive overview of the governance and compliance requirements faced by today’s organizations.
• They will understand current and future, emerging regulatory requirements, within a broad governance context.
• They will be able to articulate the risks faced by their organizations and identify appropriate strategies for mitigating those risks.
• They will understand the background to and nature of best practice frameworks
• They will be able to effectively deploy the new, integrated best-practice framework.

Who Will Benefit:

This seminar will benefit - Board members, Company directors, Non-executive directors, C-suite officers, Senior managers in all disciplines, Governance and compliance professionals, IT managers, Risk managers, The staffs of those functions and anyone interested in governance and regulatory compliance, whether as an adviser, manager, employee or individual subject to its requirements, will get value from this seminar.

Instructor Profile:

Alan Calder, is an international authority on IT governance and information security management. He is the author of IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors, and IT Governance Today: a Practitioner’s Handbook. He is the founder director of IT Governance Ltd (www.itgovernance.co.uk), and has consulted with a wide range of companies (including Cisco) on how to deploy best-practice frameworks to improve regulatory compliance and reduce compliance-related cost and risk profiles.

He led the world’s first successful implementation of BS 7799, the information security management standard upon which ISO 27001 is based, and wrote the definitive compliance guide for this standard, IT Governance: A Manager’s Guide to Data Security and BS7799/ISO17799. The 3rd edition of this book is the basis for the UK Open University’s postgraduate course on Information Security.

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