Zeba Consulting’s principal, Ravi Grewal, today announced that Zeba will be sending Dr. Chip Council, Data Governance Practice Manager, to speak at the 2008 FinSec conference in New York City. Dr. Council will be joining his former colleague, Adjunct Professor Matt Schmidt from the University of Minnesota, an expert in Network Security and Engineering.
The FinSec 2008 conference will be held December 2-3 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, This conference will focus on organized cyber assaults, insider fraud, and tight budgets. FinSec was developed by practitioners with an understanding of the security demands of the finance sector. The topics chosen for this conference include the issues that matter most to IT Security Professionals in the financial arena. Presenting companies include:
• Bank of America
• Bank of New York Mellon
• Burton Group
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Discover Financial Services
• First Bank of Delaware/Republic First Bank
• Forrester
• HSBC
• ITG Investment
• Information Security Forum
• M & T Bank
• Northern Trust Company
• Progressive Insurance
• RBC Wealth Management
• State of Arizona
• The Hartford
• USA Today
• Wachovia
The name of the presentation is “Providing Value: Where Do You Stand with the C-Suite?” and it will be held on Wednesday, 3 December from 1pm – 1:55 pm. Council and Schmidt plan to discuss:
• Strategies and frameworks to help determine and communicate the value that your security program provides to your organization
• Information security as a business enabler
• Managing uncertainty and the perception that follows
• Concepts and metrics – what's important?
• Selling value to the business
Dr. Chip Council, an expert Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Council is the known for his experience building IT Governance programs in the higher education, retail, credit card, and Internet industries. He is also currently building a consortium of experts from specialties such as Information Security, IT Governance, Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Risk Management firms.”
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