Chapter News - Updated: August 7, 2010
Our next chapter meeting will be held on September 24, 2010. The topic will be Application Security. For more details see the Meetings & Events page.
Biographies for your new chapter officers and board members are now available online.
Are you an avid Twitter user? If so, you should consider joining the many other users who are already following @ISACANashville and staying up-to-date on relevant industry news and chapter events. If you are unsure about what Twitter is all about, Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to tweet a 140 character message to their followers. For instance, the following is a recent tweet posted by the Chapter Vice President, Matthew Edman:
6 of 7 AV Programs Tested Didn’t Detect Aurora Attacks (only McAfee Internet Security 2010 w/ SecurityCenter did) http://bit.ly/aqWjE2 ^MRE
Past Chapter News
Our last chapter meeting was held on July 16, 2010. The topic was Professional Ethics: A Preventive Maintenance Approach. For more details see the Meetings & Events page.
Our last Annual Meeting was Friday, May 21, 2010 at Maggiano's Little Italy.
The Middle Tennessee ISACA chapter was excited to host the practical and intensive two-day Security and Audit of Microsoft Active Directory seminar.
Victor Rodriguez, Agent with the FBI Cybercrime Squad, presented at our last chapter meeting scheduled on Friday, March 26, 2010 at HCA. To learn more about the meeting click here.
Steve Arrington was kind enough to provide a copy of presentation he covered on January 15, 2010 - "IT Security Incident Response."
If you would like to learn more about joining ISACA, take a look at our membership page.
Interested in the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certifications? Click here to learn more about the CISA or the CISM.
ISACA International News
ISACA International is growing their e-Learning programs. Please tellthem what you think by completing their short Online Event Survey. Thank you in advance for your participation!
COBIT 5 to Consolidate and Integrate COBIT, Val IT and Risk IT. Visit http://www.isaca.org/cobit5 to learn more.
ISACA's strategies continue to evolve. Some of you may have seen in a recent issue of the @ISACA newsletter that ISACA has developed new messaging to align with their evolving strategy. ISACA has created a presentation to provide a succinct view of that messaging. The presentation is titled ISACA Messaging: 2010 and is available for download. If you would like to learn even more about ISACA’s Evolving Strategy visit http://www.isaca.org/strategy.
Cloud computing is rapidly becoming a business information technology (IT) buzz word, but there is still much debate on what exactly it is and how it benefits enterprises. A new white paper from ISACA, clearly describes how enterprises can achieve greater efficiencies and mitigate new risks associated with cloud computing. The white paper, Cloud Computing: Business Benefits with Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives, is available as a free download from http://www.isaca.org/cloud .
ISACA's Career Center is now online! The Career Centre is now available for IT professionals seeking to hire and those searching for a job. Follow this link to find out more.