Conference Program

8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

How to Adopt a Comprehensive IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Approach (IT GRC)
Andy Reeder, CISSP, CISA, Director, HIPAA Privacy and Security, Rush University Medical Center

In the past IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance have existed in different silos.  Currently, many IT leaders view these areas as having commonalities and interdependencies.  By having a unified approach IT leaders can increase efficiencies, decrease costs and lessen risk.

In this session attendees will learn:

• How these three areas are interdependent

• How to gain efficiencies, lessen risk and costs through a unified approach

• How to prevent data loss through decreased compliance deficiencies

• How to synthesize different views, business impact, and policy across the enterprise

• How to create a framework that is flexible in adapting to dynamic risk management priorities

• How to leverage this discipline to give the business a more competitive edge

10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:30am - 11:30am 

How to Design and Improve a Holistic IT Risk/Security Management Plan
Joseph Agnew, CISSP, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, Follett Corporation

An effective risk management program takes into account the needs of the extended enterprise in addition to IT.  Technology is involved, but before any purchase decisions are made it is imperative that your organization has policies in place that will lay the foundation for your program.

In this session attendees will learn how to:

• Select IT Risk Assessment Methods

• Perform and IT Risk analysis

• Implement Policies and Procedures

• Involve Risk in Your Governance Framework

• Involve Compliance, Security, Disaster Recovery and High Availability in Your Risk Management Plan

11:30am - 12:30pm

How to Get Executive Buy-In for Your Risk/Security Management Program (panel discussion)

Panelists:

Ken Watson, Director IT Risk Management, USG Corporation,
Adam Hansen, Director of Security, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal 
Tim Burke, Information Security Manager, QBE The Americas,

Min Ju, Enterprise Security Architect, Symantec,
and other enterprise IT professionals

Since an effective Risk Management Plan is holistic in nature and affects many different areas of the company, there are therefore many different stakeholders that will be involved.

Given all of the variables, what successful strategies should you use to obtain buy-in from other executives, stakeholders and business units?

In this session attendees will learn how to involve the following areas for purposes of getting buy-in and lessening risk to the enterprise:

• How to Turn Corporate Threats into Competitive Advantage

• Budgeting strategies to help get buy-in from the business side

• How to help executives, management and staff perceive that changes will create improvements

• How to establish tremendous commitment at the executive level for your cause

• How to ensure key influencers are directly involved in all aspects of the project

• How to overcome resistance

• How to stay on track and adhere to well-defined schedule

• How to design a plan for training on technologies that accompany changes

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm 

How to Identify Which Technologies Can Best Support Your Risk/Security Policies
Michael Gabriel, CISSP, CISA, Corporate Information Security Officer, Career Education Corporation

After you determine your policies that will be the foundation of your risk management program you can then focus on the technologies that will effectively support your program.

In this session, you will learn the pros and cons of the various technologies and which mix would be best for your organization.  Topics for discussion will include:

• Identity and access management

• Security information and event management

• Configuration auditing.

• Content monitoring.

• Database activity monitoring.

• IT governance risk and compliance.

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm 

4:00pm - 5:00pm 

How to Measure the Success of Your IT Risk Management Program through Metrics
Danny Harris, Manager of Information Security Policy and Awareness, The Aon Corporation

In this discussion, a seasoned IT Risk professional will share his experiences on how he has proven the success of his company's risk management program through implementing metrics.

Topics that will be covered from both a strategic and tactical metrics perspective include:

• Asset and impact classification

• Vulnerabilities and threats

• Relationship between assets, vulnerabilities, network threats and controls

• Risk calculation factors

What You Will Learn

• In this one day conference attendees will learn:

• How to take control of your Risk Management Program

• How to drive Compliance issues instead of letting them drive you

• How to leverage the core disciplines of Risk Management to design an effective framework

• How to leverage Your Risk Management Program to reduce cost and risk through effective Prioritization and Processes

• The convergence of various risk and compliance topics in the context of enterprise risk management

• How to measure the success of your risk management approach through quantitative metrics

• How to measure the dollar value of Security & Risk Management

• How to articulate the value of Security & Risk Management in terms line executives can understand

• Best practices for managing compliance, security, disaster recovery and high availability  

• How global governance and risk management trends are affecting corporate enterprises