Breakout Sessions
“Intro” and “General” track sessions –
For the information technology practitioner seeking examples of proven methods and personal experiences that emphasize the importance of having thorough and complimentary planning and implementation activities. The practitioner's efforts are not just parts of normal change but are now part of an intensive change.
Management track sessions –
Senior managers and executives will be receiving comprehensive recommendations for protection of valued information resources and availability of information that the business processes rely upon.
“Focused Solutions” track –
This is a first-time consideration by the ConSec Steering Committee, which will provide attendees with an opportunity to be presented with vendor-specific solutions for today’s IT challenges. (These sessions will be clearly annotated in the conference brochures and agendas.) We are providing vendors with the chance to openly discuss their product solution in a breakout session. This will give your organization’s decision makers the opportunity to learn about specific products without the one-on-one meeting pressure with a vendor sales or marketing representative. You can ask those hard questions that sometimes seem out of place in single, face-to-face meetings.
IT Audit track –
Information assurance is the bedrock upon which enterprise decision-making is built, and Information is arguably among an enterprise's most valuable assets, so its protection from predators from both within and outside has taken center stage as an IT priority. Without assurance, enterprises cannot feel certain that the information upon which they base their mission-critical decisions is reliable, confidential, secure and available when needed. IT auditors face many challenges in assessing the organizational structures, processes and systems that ensure that the enterprise's IT sustains and extends the enterprise's strategies and objectives. IT auditors use proven risk assessment methodologies to identify information system risks, and perform audits in accordance with IT auditing standards. IT audits can focus on assessing the design and effectiveness of a wide array of IT general and application controls including logical and physical security, security program management, access, service continuity and disaster recovery, and change management.
The IT Audit track and 1-day workshop will provide practitioners with information and insights based on the expertise and real-world experiences of our presenters.
Information Security track –
Today’s practitioner has learned that security is not just installing and maintaining the proper protection hardware and software. It isn’t simply a well-developed policy or process. It certainly isn’t only confidentiality, integrity and availability, which we have learned has now expanded to include the individual facets of the utility and authenticity of information. To be successful you develop, implement and maintain successful security systems. In this track speakers will not tell us "how we can" but will show us "how they did" achieve success. They will tell us what has worked for them and their success stories at organizations where they have worked. These are not all success stories, we learn by our mistakes; sometimes we learn better lessons in failures then when everything goes exactly as planned.
Business Continuity track --
Continuity – The availability of information resources that support critical organizational services must be ensured in the event of a disaster or business disruption. While business continuity is a business management responsibility, it is the business continuity planner who covers all of the organization’s business functions. The conference theme-"Risk Management and Business Continuance: Achieving Success" clearly resonates in all IT arenas and business continuity planning efforts have recently been recognized as a mission-critical function. The speakers in this track will share their personal experiences of how they did succeed in ensuring that the effects of a disaster would be minimized and their organization would be able to either maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions.
