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A bi-weekly publication from the ISSA International Board

November 30, 2007

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In this Issue

  1. ISSA Award Nominations Date Extended
  2. ISSA e-Symposium
  3. Privacy – a Microsoft Perspective

Nominations for ISSA International Awards Accepted Through January 1, 2008

Take this opportunity to honor your mentors, outstanding peers, remarkable chapters and supporting organizations for their contributions to ISSA and the industry. Award categories include:

  1. Chapter Communication Program of the Year
  2. Outstanding Information Security Professional of the Year
  3. Outstanding Organization of the Year
  4. Honor Roll
  5. Outstanding Chapter of the Year

Chapters may self-nominate for Outstanding Chapter of the Year and Chapter Communication Program of the Year awards. Nominations should be submitted on the attached form and sent by January 1, 2008 to Ralph Spencer Poore, 2007 Awards Chair, at poorer@issa.org, with a copy to Lyn Trainer, ltrainer@issa.org. Please download the ISSA Award Nomination Template Form.

ISSA e-Symposium Addressing PCI Compliance

  • Thursday, December 6th, 2007

The next in our successful e-Symposia series will be focused on PCI Compliance and will be broadcast live and online on December 6th at:

  • 9 a.m. Pacific Time
  • 10 a.m. Mountain Time
  • 11 a.m. Central Time
  • 12 noon Eastern Time
  • 5 p.m. UK Time
  • 6 p.m. Central European Time
  • 1 a.m. Singapore Time

This hotly debated subject will be tackled by the world's leading information security experts.  The e-Symposium forum is designed to facilitate the knowledge sharing and gathering amongst our international members and within the global information security community as a whole.  Listen to and interact with world-leading thought leaders live and from the convenience of your desk. Open to ISSA Members only.  You may join ISSA online.

Registration Code: B99731
http://www.issa.e-symposium.com/pci/index.php

For any questions, please contact:
Katie Coleman
kcoleman@brighttalk.com

The ISSA e-Symposium series is powered by BrightTALK
(http://www.brighttalk.com)

Privacy - A Microsoft Perspective

Microsoft is pleased to invite ISSA Members to you to attend a free webcast, Privacy - A Microsoft Perspective:

  • Monday, December 10, 2007

The next in our successful e-Symposia series will be focused on PCI Compliance and will be broadcast live and online on December 10th at:

  • 9 a.m. Pacific Time
  • 10 a.m. Mountain Time
  • 11 a.m. Central Time
  • 12 noon Eastern Time
  • 5 p.m. UK Time
  • 6 p.m. Central European Time
  • 1 a.m. Singapore Time

Thomas Gemmell, Director, Enterprise Privacy Solutions Strategy, Microsoft Corporation, will be coving privacy issues and answering your questions. Presentation will cover:

  • The Privacy Environment / Landscape
  • Microsoft’s Privacy operating context: TwC
  • Microsoft’s Privacy Governance
  • Microsoft’s Privacy in Software Development
  • A Technology Framework for Data Privacy and Governance
  • Data Governance Lifecycle
  • Principled Data Governance Guidance – reduce technology capability shortfalls from future requirements

Featured Speaker

Thomas P. Gemmell
Director, Enterprise Privacy Solutions Strategy, Microsoft Corporation

Tom Gemmell is Director of Enterprise Privacy Solutions Strategy in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group where he directs strategies to advance data privacy-centric policy enforcement capabilities shipped in Microsoft products. Having over 12 years with the company, he first joined Microsoft in 1988. His assignments have spanning product management, business planning, driving customer loyalty and global service quality improvement in online services to developing technology licensing strategy. Tom also spent several years as an independent corporate development advisor on the west coast. An economist by training, he holds a masters degree in business administration. Education curriculum advisor to the IT Compliance Institute (http://www.itcinstitute.com). He serves on the board of directors for CARES of Washington (http://www.caresofwa.org) a non-profit providing work-life services for the disabled.

For more information: http://www.issa.org/Members/Webcasts-Archive.html#MS20071210