NetSecure 09  IT Security and Forensics Conference and Expo - March 12 at the IIT campus in Wheaton.

Lisa DuBrock and Sally Smoczynski will present;  Beyond The Project: The New Role of ISO Standards in IT

This presentation will introduce three IT focused standards; ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System), ISO 20000 (IT Service Management) and BS25999 (Business Continuity Management System).  A brief description of each standard will be presented along with case studies of how each standard can optimize the efficiencies of projects while at the same meeting internal and external compliance requirements.  We will also talk about the value of implementing a management system of Plan, Do, Check, Act and how such a system will ensure that IT services and support will include processes for improvement, audit ability and accountability.

In the ever complex world of compliance laws and regulations, e-discovery is always in the forefront.  In the always popular world of our favorite pasttime, Baseball news is generally eye catching.  Who would have thought that these two worlds would collide (we did, of course!)   This is a link to another blog regarding A-Rod and the legal hold issues of his drug testing results from 2003.

In our quest to align IT with the Business, we sometimes overlook that a big part of the business is Legal.  IT Security, Data Protection and all things compliance, must pass through some type of legal eye.    Laura Bently for IT Business Edge has a good article on the current state of this relationship.