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IT Governance Watch
Date: 24/3/2009 Location: UK Type: ktn

Venue: Thistle Westminster Hotel, 49 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0QT

Manage risk - Release innovation - Find good practice. These are the three goals of the IT Governance Watch, a joint initiative of the Cybersecurity Knowledge Transfer Network and The National Computing Centre.

Users of information systems and their advisers are invited to a seminar and workshop to set the scope for a new observatory of standards and good practice in governance, security, risk, and information assurance of information systems.

Places are free but will be limited to achieve the goal of the day - to set the scope of the observatory.

Agenda

Welcome (Director of the Cybersecurity Knowledge Transfer Network)

Applying standards mitigates risk: the Toynbee Conflict - Danny Dresner, The National Computing Centre

How do we find good practice? - Colin Watson, Watson Hall

Standards for all: the cost and value of information - David Fatscher, British Standards Institution

Some standards for all; standards for some - Jason Creasey, Information Security Forum

Free and open access to standards - Dr Andrew Hopkirk, The National Computing Centre

Workshop - What are standards? Trust in the provenance of standards. How to use standards in innovation? How do we manage the risks that emerge during innovation? Which standards?

Summary

For more information contact Daniel Dresner at The National Computing Centre, or book using the address below.

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