Agiliance Founder & CEO To Speak At ISACA On Information Security Risk and Compliance.Pravin Kothari Will Examine Top 5 Information Security Issues and Essential Practices to Address Them MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Agiliance, a leading provider of IT Governance Risk and Compliance solutions, today announced that company founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Pravin Kothari will present a session entitled, "Top 5 Information Security Issues and Essential Practices to Address Them," at the upcoming ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Rolling Meadows, IL, www.isaca.org) A membership association dedicated to information systems auditing and security. Founded as the EDP Auditors Association in 1969, ISACA provides certification in auditing and security (see CISA and CISM). Silicon Valley Chapter 2007 Winter Conference being held January 18-19, 2007 at Techmart's Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . Details on Mr. Kothari's speaking engagement are as follows: What: "Top 5 Information Security Issues and Essential Practices to Address Them" Who: Pravin Kothari, Founder & CEO, Agiliance When: Thursday, January 18, 2007, 9:30 - 10:20 a.m. PT Where: ISACA Silicon Valley Chapter 2007 Winter Conference, Techmart's Network Meeting Center, Santa Clara, CA During the session, Mr. Kothari will discuss the top five issues faced by IT organizations of Fortune 2000 companies in security risk and compliance. The issues cover a wide spectrum ranging from compliance, risk and privacy to cyber crime and IP protection. Surprisingly, large and medium-sized enterprises face very similar challenges. Due to a lack of solutions to effectively address these issues, many IT executives today are forced to solve them with fragmented approaches that often yield expensive, inefficient and unreliable results. Mr. Kothari will describe essential practices that utilize a top-down policy and risk-based approach. More information about the ISACA Silicon Valley Chapter 2007 Winter Conference is available at http://www.isaca-sv.org/WinterConferenceSchedule.html About Agiliance Agiliance, a leader in IT Governance Risk and Compliance, provides an integrated, standards-based solution that enables enterprises to effectively analyze and decrease security risk, achieve continuous visibility of risk and compliance, and significantly reduce the cost of compliance with regulations and security policies. Agiliance's holistic risk-based solution integrates processes, applications, IT assets, physical assets, employees and vendors, allowing organizations to comply with government regulations (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley 404, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, , GLBA and FISMA FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA Federal Information System Management Act ), industry mandates (e.g., SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. 70 and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). ), standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 17799/27001, CobiT, FFIEC and NIST), as well as corporate policies. Agiliance is based in Mountain View, CA and can be reached at www.agiliance.com. |
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