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The Official Newsletter of the Silicon Valley Chapter Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Editor: Desmond Low-Kum Here’s a toast that everybody will be in highest holiday spirits at the upcoming December ISACA-SV dinner meeting! Visit the Chapter’s web site at http://www.isaca-sv.org. December 2004 ISACA-SV Dinner Meeting Thursday, December 9, 2004 Registration 3:00 Speaker #1 3:30 Social Hour 5:00 Dinner 5:45 Speaker #2 6:30 Door Prizes 7:30 Meeting Location: Ramada Inn, Silicon Valley 1217 Wildwood Ave., Sunnyvale (Located near Lawrence Expressway & Highway 101) Directions: From San Jose: North on Highway 101, East on Lawrence Expressway, and take first right onto Wildwood Ave. From San Francisco: South on Highway 101, take the Lawrence Expressway exit, go over Highway 101 on Lawrence, and take the first right onto Wildwood Ave. From the East Bay: West on Highway 237, left at Great America Parkway, North on Highway 101, East on Lawrence Expressway, and take first right onto Wildwood Ave. Cost: ISACA Members $25 Non-Members $30 Students $15 Continuing Education: Attendance of both workshops will represent (3) hours. Reservations: Please e-mail Nic Green as soon as possible. If you've made a reservation and later find that you can't attend, please contact Nic to cancel so that the chapter is not billed for a "no show" meal. If you have special diet restrictions please notify upon reserving. Vegetarian meals are available upon request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFTERNOON PRESENTATION: Intelligent Risk Management presented by Sandy Hawke. Synopsis: Our afternoon presentation by a speaker from TruSecure Corporation will be on the topic of "Intelligent Risk Management" and will discuss how risk management tools and methodologies can assist organizations comply with regulatory standards. Biography: Sandy Hawke has been in the Information Security field since 1996. She started her network security career at UUNET managing InterLock and Check Point firewalls for Fortune 500 customers. After working as a Senior Network Security Engineer for a number of years, she was promoted to SOC Manager in her second year with UUNET. In March 2000, Sandy took a Senior Security Analyst position with TruSecure specifically responsible for assessing the security posture of corporations through the analysis of remote and local scanning data, security policy compliance, and physical security. She holds the following security industry certifications: CISSP, CCSA, CCSE, and TICSA. She earned a BA in Political Science at the University of Delaware, an MA in Political Science from UCSB and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She has been very active in the past two years with speaking engagements at a number of symposiums and technical meetings. EVENING PRESENTATION: Protecting Host Environments presented by Mr. Paul R. Robichaux. Synopsis: The evening presentation will examine the auditing of z/OS security, IBM’s 64-bit mainframe operating system. z/OS is a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system on which to build and deploy Internet and Java-enabled applications, providing a comprehensive and diverse application execution environment. Biography: Mr.Paul R.Robichaux funded and founded NewEra Software with Robert A. Tapia in 1989. NewEra’s mission is to help the users of IBM’s MVS and z/OS operating system avoid the loss of system integrity, prepare for and carry out operating system audits. It accomplishes this by offering products that detect operating system changes and evaluate their impact on system integrity. NewEra markets its software products worldwide via telemarketing, the Internet and a collection of independent international agents. It has over 600 active licensees and is on track to reach $3.0M in revenue during the calendar year 2004. Typical customers include Wal-Mart (USA), KELAG (Germany), GE (USA), HSBC (Hong Kong, Great Britain, USA), Progressive Insurance (USA), Blue Cross Blue Shield (USA), Sallie Mae (USA), FBI (USA) and IRS (USA). Mr Robichaux’s educational and professional credentials include: BS with a double major in Accounting & Computer Science - Louisiana State Master of Business Administration - Louisiana State Advance Management Training - Harvard Business School Certified Public Accountant - Louisiana in 1969 CISA /CISM SOCIAL HOUR SESSION: Our December meeting will also give us the opportunity to announce the names of those who passed the CISA and CISM certification exams. Please attend to hear your name announced and bask in the light of this fine achievement! Also be there to encourage and applaud the efforts of those who took the exams. Attendance of both seminars will represent three (3) CPE Hours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 CISA/CISM Exam Dates Set: The next Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam and Certified Information Security Manager will be held on June 11, 2005. The early registration deadline is February 2, 2005, and the final registration deadline is March 30, 2005. More than 15,000 candidates are expected to register for CISA exams this year. If you want to be one of them, you can sign up on the ISACA Web site at: http://www.isaca.org/examreg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOB OPPORTUNITIES ON THE ISACA-SV WEBSITE: We invite you to visit the Chapter’s website to view employment opportunities at http://www.isaca-sv.org/employment.html. We are accepting job descriptions for open positions you wish to post on our web site. See the web site for job postings and contact information NEW MEMBERS: Welcome to all new members of our Chapter! Our membership has grown to over 300 members with growing numbers of CISMs. Our growing ranks and diversity of backgrounds give all of us increased opportunity to meet and network. with varied individuals in the coming meetings. We invite all this new blood to join us at the December meeting! CISA EXAM Congratulations to our members who passed the recent CISA exam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004-2005 CHAPTER OFFICERS Yogita Parulekar, President Swami Ramachandran, Co-Vice President Sudha Chadalavada, Co-Vice President Oliver Wong, Treasurer Meena Kapasi, Assistant Treasurer Rick Kest, Secretary Nicholas Green, Program Director Terry Barnhart, Membership and Meeting Arrangements Director Janie Chang, Academic Relations Director Swee Fuller, Assistant Academic Relations Director Edmund Lam, CISA/CISM Coordinator Nils Puhlmann, Seminar Director Larry Halme, Newsletter Editor Tamara DeMarco, Co-Webmaster Roger Delgado, Co-Webmaster Kishor Kapasi, Past President Desmond Low-Kum, Chapter Advisor Ranjita Chakravarty, Chapter Advisor DISCLAIMER As it is the objective of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association to provide a forum for the expression of ideas and opinions, statements of opinion appearing herein are not necessarily those of the Chapter or its directors and officers.Previous Issues of the CHIP