Events

The next two educational event organised by the ISACA MALTA CHAPTER are the following:

January 26th 2012: The evolution of electronic evidence under Maltese Law by Martin Bajada http://goo.gl/Uf0rI

February 23rd 2012: Talking security – opportunities, lessons learnt by Rodney Naudi
http://goo.gl/G3CkV

Follow the links above to book your place.

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ISACA EDUCATIONAL EVENT entitled Project Risk Management Techniques

Date: Thursday 15th December 2011
Time: 17:00 to 19:00
Where: Radisson Blu, St.Julians

There are a few questions that every project manager should ask at the beginning of a project?

What do we hope to gain from this project-end goal?
What factors can keep that from happening?
How should we respond if those events occur?

Every project involves some degree of risk. Identifying potential risks and having a plan for dealing with them can spell the difference between a project that reaches a successful conclusion and one that does not.

This session will focus on the essential techniques in project risk management.

Further details are available directly on the ISACA Malta website here.

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CYBER SECURITY SEMINAR jointly organised by ICT Gozo Malta and BCS Malta

When: WEDNESDAY 23rd November 2011
Time: 6pm
Where: MITA’s offices - Gattard House, Blata l-Bajda, MALTA

We are linking this seminar with the Security Leaders Congress being held in Brazil. Benjamin Gittins, CTO, Synaptic Laboratories, speaking at our seminar, has been invited to participate in the Annual Brazil Security Leaders Congress on the 23 Nov. 2011. This 2 day Congress is attended by some 300 CEO/CIO/CTO level executives from public and industry sectors.

• Details on the security Leaders Panel
• Details on the seminar can be found here
• Attendees can register here or email secretary@bcs.org.mt or info@ictgozomalta.eu

Synaptic Labs participation will take place remotely from Malta and will be the first such international participation in the history of the Congress. The invitation to participate is the result of outreach by Synaptic Labs and the ICT Gozo Malta project, creating new international relationships and drawing international attention to Malta as a source of ICT innovation.

The Congress will be streamed live onto the Internet with translation into English. In the panel called "Securing Legitimate Access", Benjamin Gittins will participate along with several prominent Brazilian Information Security Leaders from Government, Industry and Academia.

The seminar will start with participation in the International Panel event, which takes place promptly at 6:30pm. There will be a live link to the Congress for the duration of the Panel event.

This will be followed by a remote webcast presentation to our audience from Fabian Martins (see below), one of the Congress Security Panel participants. We have had strong interest from a range of Synaptic Labs International Collaborators, from other countries, to participate remotely as speakers.

Some of our speakers include:

Fabian Martins (Scopus/Bradesco Bank) – addressing our seminar live from the Security Leaders Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bob Quick, CEO Blue Light Systems (London, England). Ex chief officer of Police in the UK with extensive strategic and operational experience in counter terrorism, intelligence, serious and organised crime reduction and business improvement.

Brian Snow, (Maryland, USA) recognised Mathematician and Computer scientist, is former Technical Director of the Information Assurance Directorate,US National Security Agency (Washington).

as well as other Experts from major real-time operating system companies from USA, UK and elsewhere.

The official flyer can be downloaded here.

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ICT GOZO MALTA is organizing a webinar entitled "A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Safe and Secure Software"

When: 2 November 2011
Duration: 1 hour
Time: 9.30am(UK), 10.30am(Europe), 3pm(India)

Green Hills Software (a company that offers an operating system with the highest security level certification ever achieved in the world: CC EAL6+ and DO-178B Level A) and LDRA are hosting a joint one-hour webinar on Wednesday 2nd November 2011 at the times above.

With the evolution of computing, devices incorporate an ever-increasing amount of software. Software is key to bettering the user interface, boosting device responsiveness, and adding more features to your product. Software complexity increases the risk of programming and security errors—a risk companies cannot afford.

This one-hour webinar is suitable for security experts and software engineers and engineering managers, students and educators interested in learning about developing software in compliance with industry specific standards; Systems engineers interested in learning about the interface between systems & software in a safety-critical environment.

Because of our dependence on software-driven devices, they must be as safe or safer. Software complexity increases the risk of programming and security errors—a risk companies cannot afford.
This webinar will help you produce quality software, obtain compliance, or follow a nationally-mandated safety certification such as IEC 61508 (general industrial), ISO/DIS 26262 (automotive), EN 50128 (railway/transportation), IEC 61513 (nuclear).

For further information and links to register please follow the source link below.

Source

ICT GOZO MALTA is a project to create and enhance international ICT collaboraton and related economic activity in the Maltese islands founded by The Gozo Business Chamber & Synaptic Laboratories Ltd.

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We are pleased to announce that the ICT Gozo Malta (ICTGM) Project will be formally launched by the Hon. Giovanna Debono, Minister for Gozo. Other speakers include the Hon. Jason Azzopardi, Parliamentary Secretary - Ministry of Finance, Mr Claudio Grech, Chairman MITA, and others. The event is being sponsored by GO and will be followed by some light refreshments.

Date: Friday, 5th August 2011 at 11:00 am
Location: The CALYPSO HOTEL, Marsalforn, GOZO, MALTA

The ICTGM projects (see http://www.ictgozomalta.eu) seek to attract inward investment for Innovation and development in Gozo, and also Malta, leading to the creation of new jobs and opportunities in Gozo and Malta, as well as the development and enhancement of new skills and specialisations which can contribute to the Government aim of Malta becoming an ICT Regional Hub of excellence in Europe and beyond.

Businesses, Banks, ICT companies, ICT Educationalists, ICT Graduates and ICT students are welcome and encouraged to attend. We strongly encourage anyone working in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to attend the launch event and learn what this project is about and what it may mean for you, for Gozo and Malta. You will also get to meet members of the Project team and can register to be included on progress and future updates.

Please call the GBC on +356 2155 0305 or email gbc@ictgozomalta.eu for details and RSVP if you will be attending. For further details on the Project contact David Pace on +356 7963 0221 or email dave.pace@ictgozomalta.eu.

For more information, see the flyer here: http://bitly.com/o8eM7A

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IDC has the pleasure of inviting you to the IDC Datacenters Transformation, Cloud Computing and Security Roadshow which will take place on 15 April 2011, 09:00AM, at the WESTIN DRAGONARA

When: 15 APRIL 2011
Time: 9:00 AM,
Where: WESTIN DRAGONARA HOTEL, MALTA

KEY TOPICS

- Virtualization
- The Datacenter of the Future
- Storage Software and Hardware
- Information Lifecycle Management
- Green Datacenters
- Managed Services for the Datacenter Cloud Services & Cloud Computing
- The Transformative Interplay between Cloud & Traditional IT Offerings
- Cloud Computing & the SMB Market: Drivers & Opportunities
- Shifting Priorities & Opportunities for Traditional Service Providers
- Security in the Cloud

Speakers

Matthew Gat, CEO, MITA
Marco Gercke, Attorney-at-law
Tom Schwieters Vice President, Regional Director for Central Europe, IDC Hungary
George Dimitriou, Stakeholders Relations,ENISA

Click here to register

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A half-day training event is being organised by PwC Academy, entitled Auditing Web Applications.

Date: 8th of April 2011
Time: 9am-1:30pm
Fee: €65 per participant
Speaker: Mr. Nathan Gatt M.Sc Information Security, CISSP, CISA

You can download the full PwC Academy training document here for further details and booking.

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Our sponsor GFI is organising a Careers Day

GFI Software provides web and mail security, archiving and fax, networking and security software and hosted IT solutions for small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) via an extensive global partner community.

Place: Radisson Blu Resort, St Julian’s
Date: Saturday, April 16
Time: 9.30am - 4.00p

GFI are looking for:

-SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
-SOFTWARE TESTERS
-TECHNICAL COMMUNICATORS (USER EXPERIENCE)
-TECHNICAL SUPPORT REPRESENTATIVES
-SECURITY RESEARCHERS
-WEB DEVELOPERS

Download the PDF flyer here!

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An evening educational session organised by ISACA Malta Chapter.

Title – Electronic Evidence and Electronic Crime
Date – Thursday 9th December 2010
Time – 17:00 to 19:00
Place – Radisson Blu Resort, St Julians


Summary:

The talk is aimed at giving an understanding of the role and function of the forensic expert within the Maltese Law system, and the processes involving electronic evidence examination. It will be divided in two parts:

· The role of the Forensic Expert under Maltese Law
· Definition of Electronic Crime and Case Study

In the first part of the presentation a brief analysis is made of the Maltese Legal system and the different roles of the forensic expert in Civil Cases and Criminal Cases is examined. The final analysis reflects the basis of a forensic opinion within the terms of standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt – the criminal standard and within the balance of probabilities – the civil standard.

The second part of the presentation will be set against Locard’s theory on trace evidence i.e. every contact leaves a trace. We will look at the distinction between computer related crimes, computer content crimes and computer integrity crimes and we will also look at a case study of electronic evidence in lead Maltese cases on homicide, drug related offenses, economic crimes and other crimes and offenses.

ISACA MALTA CHAPTER Members are invited to attend this educational event free of charge. They in turn, can be accompanied by a colleague / non-member to attend also free of charge.

Reduced fee: €15 – for members of the Malta Institute of Accountants, the Malta Institute of Management, the IEEE, and the British Computer Society.
Fee for all other attendees: €20

Register your attendance here.

This talk will be delivered by Mr. Martin Bajada FIAP., LL.B. Dip. Not. Pub.

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St. Martins Institute will be holding a meeting in regards to their MSc Information Security programme on Friday 18th June.

This meeting will be addressed by Dr Colin Walter, Course Director at the Information Security Group, Royal Holloway of the University of London.

Date: 18th June 2010
Time: 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Venue: St Martin’s Institute of IT room 227

Should you wish to attend, please send an email to abianchi at stmartins.edu.mt to reserve a seat.

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ICT Solutions is organising a morning seminar with HP to present HP's Business Critical Infrastructure.

The seminar is aimed at IT and business executives with an interest in business continuity. Registration is free and may be completed using the registration form below.

Date: 23 June 2010
Time: 08:30 - 13:00
Venue: Westin Dragonara Resort, St. Julian's
Topics: An Introduction to HP Converged Infrastructure, Enterprise Solutions for your Mission Critical Business Environment, How to handle the Data Explosion- HP Storage Strategies, HP Business Networking Solutions.

More information can be found here.

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Conference Reminder: 21st May 2010.
If you have not yet registered and plan to attend, make sure you log on http://www.itgovernancemalta.com/index.php/book-here to reserve a seat.

Educational Event

Tuesday 25th May 2010 from 17:15 to 19:15 at the Radissson Blu Resort, St. Julians

Book Here

The concept of continuous auditing has been around for many years. It has been talked about, researched and theorised. Many organisations have made significant investments of time and money, yet for most organisations it is nothing more than an unrealised dream. As a matter of fact, one organisation's version of continuous auditing may differ dramatically from another organisation's implementation. This event will look at the reasons for this. It will look at how organisations and auditors can breach the gap and turn the concept into reality.

The educational event will also provide an understanding of the concepts and strategies required for continous auditing. During this session you will discover the benefits to be gained from continuous auditing and the practicalities of implementing it in your own organisation.

Speaker Profile

Derek J. Oliver is an Information Audit & Security specialist with over 27 years experience and is qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a BCS Chartered IT Professional (CITP). His background in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is represented by Fellowship of the Institute of IT Service Management (FISM) and he has been recognized as a Member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (MInstISP). In 1996, he was admitted a Freeman of the City of London and he is a CHIP registered Health Informatics Practitioner at Level 3 (highest).

Following a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Information Technology, awarded for his work on disaster recovery and business continuity planning, he received a Doctorate (PhD) for research into the various elements of executive policies contributing to information security management. He has since been awarded an Honorary DBA by Belford University in recognition of his work in the development of the CISM designation. He is internationally regarded as an expert in Information Security Governance, especially using CobiT, ITIL and ISO27001 and is a regular presenter at many international conferences and training courses on a variety of security, fraud and audit topics.

ISACA MALTA CHAPTER members attend for free to this educational event.

Reduced Fee: €15* *Members of Malta Institute of Accountants, Malta Institute of Management, IEEE, and British Computer Society are eligible for the reduced fee.
Others €20

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Computime Ltd would like to invite you to a half-day specialized security seminar which is being held at the San Gorg Corinthia in St George’s Bay on Wednesday 14th April.

The seminar is aimed to help you:

1) Automate and Patrol Your Organisation’s Security Learn about the latest solutions in Security and Event Management from LogRhythm, a company which provides enterprise-class Log Management and SIEM 2.0 solutions that empower organizations to comply with regulations, secure their networks, optimize IT operations and gain visibility over all their security activity.

2) Fast track to PCI Compliance All malicious activity that can result in compromise of core enterprise assets such as intellectual property, know-how, trade secrets, and customer data, must be stopped regardless of the perpetrator's location. Packet GENERAL Networks will tackle issues of data security — protection of proprietary and sensitive corporate information assets from unauthorized/illegal access or use, disclosure, modification, and/or destruction, as well as PCI Compliance solutions.

Join us to learn more about Computime’s solutions in IT security, especially in view of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Compliance. Our key speakers are industry experts who will help you better understand the security threats your organization may be facing, how to interpret log information in order to be able to assess the security levels of your system, and how to ensure PCI compliance in accordance to current law requirements.

More details on the specific LinkedIn page

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The next educational event organised by the ISACA MALTA CHAPTER will be held on the 23rd March between 18:00 and 20:00. The topic to be tackled during this event is "The Economics of the Green Agenda in Information Technology”. The event will be held at the Radisson Blu Resort in St. Julians.

The event is eligible for CISA/CISM CPE Hours. We are awaiting approval for MIA CPE hours.

Book your attendance to this event on www.isaca-malta.org.

The speaker of this event is Mr. Anton Cristina – General Manager, at Computer Solutions Malta

Anton joined Computer Solutions in Q3 2008. He comes with a wealth of experience within the IT Industry gained overseas. Before re-locating to Malta, Anton worked with big blue IBM Ireland. He worked with IBM Global Services consulting customers on E-business Hosting, Business Continuity & Recovery Services, Organizational Strategy & Change. Anton has cross Industry experience and went on to running the SMB Territory in Ireland and drove IBM’s Systems integrator capabilities in the Irish Market.

For this event, Anton will identify and discuss the relevant issues of The Green Agenda and the economic and other benefits that technology brings to the table through consolidation, cloud computing and virtualization. He will discuss how these issues are shaping business strategies in today’s economic climate. In addition Anton will touch on the challenges C-level Executives face as they aim to strike a balance between a green IT strategy and a green balance sheet. The event will interest CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, Data Centre Managers, IT Architects, Software Developers, Testers, Auditors, as well IT Auditors from all industry sectors. These executives strive to protect their organisation’s revenue streams and business reputation by appropriately investing in making their business more effective and resilient.

ISACA MALTA CHAPTER members attend for free.
Reduced Fee: €15*
Others €20

*Members of Malta Institute of Accountants, Malta Institute of
Management, IEEE, and British Computer Society are eligible for the
reduced fee.

ISACA MALTA CHAPTER

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The next educational event organised by the ISACA MALTA CHAPTER will be held on the 23rd of February between 18:00 and 20:00. The topic to be tackled during this event is "The Business Value of Virtualization". The event will be held at the Radisson Blu Resort in St. Julians.

The event is eligible for CISA/CISM CPE Hours. We are awaiting approval for MIA CPE hours

This event will discuss the value delivery of making effective and efficient use of virtualization to local businesses. Topics to be discussed during the event shall include:

-Virtualization and the value delivery from IT assets
-Cost of ownership and operation
-Achieve more with less IT resources through virtualization
-Improved Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery
-Security & Compliance of virtual workloads

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The next local ISACA chapter educational event happening on 12/01/10 is to be entitled The Cost of Fear

In a 200 page book about mankind's evolution, the last two hundred years would span a quarter of a page. Our brain's evolution has been outmatched by the technological advances it itself is creating, landing us in an environment which we cannot comprehend. The media fill us with irrational scare stories. Politicians often use fear to push an agenda. Even when we consciously disbelieve their stories, they mark our thoughts and affect our decisions.

Research shows that you're likely to be underestimating your real risks. You're also likely to be spending too much attention on risks which matter little to your business. Justin Vassallo will analyse the findings of scientific research to discover the complex methods by which our brain takes risk judgements, and enable us to unravel them.

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"A demonstration of the top web security threats"


The next educational event organised by the ISACA MALTA CHAPTER will be held on the 15th of December between 18:00 and 20:00. The topic to be tackled during this event is "A demonstration of the top web security threats" and the speaker during the event will be Sandro Gauci. The event will be held at the Radisson Blu Resort in St. Julians.

The event is eligible for CISA/CISM CPE Hours. ISACA members attend for free.

Sandro Gauci is the owner and Founder of EnableSecurity (www.enablesecurity.com) where he performs R&D and security consultancy for mid-sized companies. Sandro has over 9 years experience in the security industry and is focused on analysis of security challenges and providing solutions to such threats. His passion is vulnerability research and has previously worked together with various vendors such as Microsoft and Sun to fix security holes. Sandro is the author of the free VoIP security scanning suite SIPVicious (sipvicious.org) and can be contacted at sandro@enablesecurity.com. Read his blog at blog.enablesecurity.com.

Book your attendance to this event on www.isaca-malta.org.

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ICT Solutions will be holding a seminar on the subject of securing electronic information assets:

Date: Wednesday the 22nd of July
Place: Westin Dragonara, in the morning

The seminar is free of charge, and is targeted at IT professionals, enterprise risk executives, data managers and IT security personnel. The presentations will be delivered by industry professionals representing three leading suppliers. HP will be delivering an interesting session on planning requirements for implementing an effective information security strategy. The second topic to be tackled is the management of privilege identities and the management of enterprise wide passwords. The presentation will be delivered by the leaders in the field Cyber-Ark. Finally Agiliance will tackle the topic of automating IT governance, risk and compliance. After the sessions there will be a networking brunch.

Kindly send an e-mail on info@ictsolutions.com.mt to register your intent*

Regards,

Gordon Micallef
President
ISACA MALTA CHAPTER

* This is a free ISACA membership service provided by ISACA MALTA CHAPTER and the Chapter is not responsible in any way for the organisation of this event and has no affiliations with the organisations mentioned above.

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In 2008, ISACA entered into a formal agreement with the University of Southern California (USA) Marshall School of Business Institute for Critical Information Infrastructure Protection to continue the development of its Systemic Security Management Model. The Business Model for Information Security takes a business oriented approach to managing information security, building on the foundational concepts developed by the Institute. It utilizes systems thinking to clarify complex relationships within the enterprise, and thus to more effectively
manage security.

This session introduces the model and its core concepts to organisations, particularly to:

-Senior business executives;
-Information security managers;
-Those who have responsibility for managing business risk;
-Individuals who have responsibility for the design, implementation, monitoring and improvement of an information security management system.

When: 1st June 2009
Where: Radisson SAS Baypoint Resort, St. Julians
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker: Mr. Derek Oliver, Chair of the Development Team

The attendance fee for this event is €20 including coffee break. ISACA members will be entitled to free entrance to this event.

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This year the Information Security Solutions Europe Conference (ISSE 2009) will be held on 6-8 October 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

ISSE is Europe's only independent, interdisciplinary, security conference. It is designed to educate & inform on the latest developments in technology, solutions, market trends and best practice.

Now in its eleventh year and jointly organised by EEMA, ENISA, TeleTrusT and the municipality of the Hague; ISSE 2009 will attract over 400 representatives from across Europe, providing an informal and stimulating environment for attendees to learn, share experiences and explore solutions with their European counterparts, focusing on security and related issues like cost of ownership, risk management and interoperability.

To join them or for further information please visit the event website at http://www.isse.eu.com

ISSE 2009 is co-organised by ENISA

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