ISACA® Western New York Chapter - August 2009 Newsletter
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Monthly Newsletter August 2009 Vol.1 Issue 5 |
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CHAPTER NEWS ISACA Western New York Chapter's Board Of Directors recently reviewed and approved a partnership with the Rochester ISSA and OWASP chapters to share a lead role in this year's Rochester Security Summit on October 28-29. The chapter will coordinate and provide this year's Business Track which will include presentations on compliance, controls, and strategies. The track will also feature a Chief Security Officer panel discussion with attendee Questions and Answers. Other tracks include Technical/Professional and Technical Developer tracks. The event will further feature a Key Note address by Ed Skoudis and and Note by Larry Pesce. This up to 12-CPE event is available to chapter members at a 10% discount from the standard $120 registration rate. Early bird registration rates of $110 apply as well until September 30th.
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In This Issue: • Chapter News • Member Spotlight • President's Message • Upcoming Events • Certification News • Technology News • Featured Download • Trivia |
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT She appreciates ISACA's valuable resources and reference materials. "The local chapter provides networking and learning opportunities. This is important to me as I'm the only IT auditor at my employer," says Lazarus. |
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UPCOMING EVENTS Information Security and Risk Management Conference - Las Vegas, NV Rochester Security Summit
ISACA’s CISA Certification Earns 2009 SC Magazine Award for Best Professional Certification Program Rolling Meadows, IL, USA (23 April 2009)—ISACA, a nonprofit association serving more than 86,000 IT governance professionals in 160 countries, has been recognized with an SC Magazine 2009 Professional Award. ISACA’s Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designation was selected as the winner of the Best Professional Certification Program, and its Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification was named a finalist. The award, which recognizes ISACA’s outstanding achievement in IT security, was presented Tuesday at the exclusive SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, USA. The CISA certification has been earned by more than 60,000 professionals since its inception in 1978. It is recognized internationally as the global standard for IS audit, control and security professionals. CISM, introduced in 2002, has been earned by more than 10,000 professionals. “We are honored that ISACA’s commitment to the information security field has been recognized by SC Magazine’s distinguished award program,” said Lynn Lawton, CISA, FBCS CITP, FCA, FIIA. “The CISA and CISM designations are based on real-world professional experience and are highly regarded by employers and information security professionals seeking to advance their careers.” ISACA’s CISA and other 2009 Professional Awards winners were chosen by a panel of 22 judges from major corporations and public-sector organizations that were hand-picked by SC Magazine’s editorial team for their breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry. The awards highlight and showcase the best solutions, services and professionals, while recognizing achievement and technical excellence in the information security industry. With almost 700 entries submitted in 30 categories, the 2009 SC Awards were the most competitive yet in the program’s 12-year history. “ISACA represents one of the industry’s beacons of leadership, and the 2009 SC Awards judges have given it this high distinction for its innovative contributions to IT security over the past year,” said Illena Armstrong, editor in chief, SC Magazine. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit www.scmagazineus.com/Best-professional-certification/article/130888/. Additional information on ISACA’s CISA and CISM certifications, as well as the new Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) designation, is available at www.isaca.org/certification.
TRIVIA
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Twitter briefly knocked offline by hackers (again) Source:THE REGISTER
Twitter suffered from yet more security jitters on Tuesday night, after another attack left the site briefly unavailable. The outage lasted only about 30 minutes, from about 2020 (BST) and was far less severe than an attack last Thursday that took out the site for around two hours and left it offering impaired services for days afterwards. Last week's attack is widely attributed to an assault on accounts run by a Georgian blogger. The apparent assault on Cyxymu coincided with the first anniversary of the ground war between Georgia and Russia. Accounts maintained by Cyxymu on Facebook, Blogger and LiveJournal were also targeted, as well as Twitter, but only the micro-blogging service suffered downtime. Twitter is still investigating the cause of Tuesday's brief outage, which followed a site update that may (or may not) have played a role in subsequent events. ® |
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FEATURED DOWNLOAD
The growing adoption of IT best practices has been driven by a requirement for the IT industry to better manage the There is a danger, however, that implementation of these potentially helpful best practices can be costly and |
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