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Our Digital Forensics Training Course provides critical advice to enable you to fulfill the Cabinet Office ‘minimum mandatory measures’ requirement to have a ‘forensic readiness policy’, covering issues to consider in defining a strategy, identifying responsibilities and putting the required arrangements in place.
The next course will take place in London on 21 September and delegates that book before the end of August can save a third off the list price to save £200!
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Digital Forensics Training Course For IT Directors and CISOs through to IT Managers, this one day course is the perfect introduction to Digital Forensics and Forensic Readiness. Given the HM Government’s ‘minimum mandatory measures’ for information assurance, it is also ideal for Senior Information Risk Owners (SIROs) and those tasked with introducing an information security incident response regime. |
Fulfill the Cabinet Office ‘minimum mandatory measures’ requirement to have a ‘forensic readiness policy’:
The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) last week fined the Royal Bank of Scotland Group £5.6m for ‘failing to have adequate IT systems and controls in place to prevent breaches of UK financial sanctions’. You can read more about this incident on Alan Calder’s IT Governance Blog where he states:
‘It always seems to me a pity that organisations have to be pushed, by substantial fines, to do things that have significant business benefits’.
The business benefits that Alan is referring to are particularly relevent right now as we face public sector spending cuts and struggle to recover from recession. You can read more about these benefits in a recent blog post: IT Governance and ISO38500 will help organisations during times of austerity.
There is a common misconception that at IT Governance, we just publish books and toolkits, or we just develop and run ISO27001 training courses, or just offer consultancy services. The fact is, we do all these things, and going by our customers’ comments, we do them very well!
The breadth of products and services we have available puts us in the unique position of being able to offer our clients the solution they require, no matter what stage of a given project they’re at. Did you know, for instance, we now offer penetration testing services?
We also deliver many of these services internationally!
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A string to any news reporter’s bow is the issue of social media and privacy. It’s rare that a week goes by without there being a news headline claiming that Facebook, Twitter, or some other social network has breached our privacy rights and are branded as immoral rouges who have set out to destroy the universe.
The reality is often very different and social media, when used correctly, is a fantastic way to communicate, share and build relationships. The very nature of social media, and what makes it so powerful, is the ability to engage your audience in one-to-one conversations, rather than the more traditional broadcast communication.
Here lie the ‘not so obvious’ risks:
Quite often, an organisation will jump into social media without a proper strategy. In order to ‘test the water’, they may create a Facebook page, sign up a new Twitter account and encourage sales and/or marketing staff to use their LinkedIn accounts to spread the word and prospect for potential leads.
As the number of followers grows, and before the organisation begins to see the benefits to using social media as a bone-fide marketing and communications channel, you could be risking your brand reputation and/or posting inappropriate content without even realising.
Organisations need to create an effective governance structure around their social media activities. They will need to identify appropriate social media objectives, as well as assign roles and responsibilities.
Our Training schedule for September 2010 is outlined below and I thought you should see it as early as possible. Spaces on these courses are limited and sell-out very quickly, in fact, a few of these courses have just been added to meet demand as we have turned people away from previous course dates!
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If Information Technology is a part of your business, governance now extends to and includes information and the IT infrastructure that supports your business. Shareholder expectations of boards, and of the individual directors on boards, are clear:
These IT governance expectations demand an appropriate IT governance framework. That can be difficult and time consuming to do from scratch.
As the UK enters its new age of austerity with public sector organisations finding draconian budget cuts, organisations must ensure that its IT function acts an enabler of business, and must be fully aligned with business objectives.
ISO/IEC 38500:2008 provides guiding principles for directors of organisations on the effective, efficient and acceptable use of information technology (IT). These principles are designed to be used within their organisations.
Key benefits of ISO38500:
Our range of governance risk and compliance toolkits has grown rapidly over the last few month so I want to take this opportunity to share this new range with you:
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