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Organizations outsourcing card data to the cloud face significant security risks. As soon as an organization adds other players to the offsite card-management mix, ensuring compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard becomes increasingly challenging. Cloud users and cloud service providers need to understand what their roles and responsibilities are when it comes to protecting this data. Storing, processing and transmitting cardholder data in the cloud brings the cloud environment into scope for PCI-DSS.

Organizations need to know where their data is at all times. A lot of cloud clients have limited or no control over cardholder data storage. Organizations should be concerned about collecting and correlating access logs and other information from cloud vendors to ensure they are maintaining security compliance. Where's the data being stored? Is it stored in multiple locations? These are all things that you have to take into consideration when you're thinking about outsourcing to a cloud provider. Join this webcast as we address the compliance challanges in the cloud, and gain new insights on:

- Emerging PCI security risks in the cloud
- Understand the role of cloud entities
- Processes for assessing risk when card data could potentially be stored in multiple locations
- Structuring planning controls to deal with PCI DSS changes
- Recommendations for achieving PCI compliance across virtual environments

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Organizations are suffering from volatility across all risk types, and need to re-think their enterprise risk strategy. In a landscape filled with new threats and new regulations, risk management has never been more critical to senior leaders in all sectors, and gaining a complete view of an organization's risk exposure is increasing in complexity.

A well defined risk management program cannot achieve high maturity scores without integrating risk management systems across divided organisational units. Organizations must thoroughly understand the true value at risk and ensure their compliance mandates are not geographically siloed. At the heart of this strategy is the need for a single consistent view of the data. It is a necessity for organizations to build a new generation of integrated risk solutions and applications that exploit this single view of the truth discretely and holistically, driving towards maximum synergy within the enterprise.

Join our panel as they discuss a new generation of risk technologies which use a holistic approach to data management and achieve functional competence. We will explain the most effective way to manage risk across the enterprise, how to get the attention of executives to make sure that enough attention is being paid to the risk, and how to achieve enormous economies of scale while simultaneously meeting the demanding landscape of regulatory change.

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Information Governance is an essential element to your compliance planning and execution. With evolving regulatory demands and increased litigation, the imperative to gain control over business content has never been more critical. Experts know that managing the retention and disposition of business information reduces litigation risk and legal discovery costs. But with the best of plans, there are challenges to face and decisions to make. Add in the maturation of technology and security issues, and the challenges seem to grow exponentially.

Governance is still lacking in many organizations as around 85% of users still manually identify records, but are not clear which content is valuable and not valuable, and as a result, there is considerable fear towards the regulatory impact of deleting information. New auto-classification technologies can take the burden off the end user by eliminating the need for them to manually identify records, by providing automatic identification, classification, retrieval, archival, and disposal capabilities for electronic business records according to governance policies. During this webinar we will discuss how to improve your governance practices with auto-classification technologies. Join us for tips and insights on:

- Understanding and Identifying the risks and costs of discoverable information
- Quantifying the business benefits of Information Governance practices and Auto-Classification
- How Auto-Classification works and can seamlessly fit into your organization

Big Data is a trend that has engulfed today's IT industry and one that organizations are struggling to manage. According to IDC, the amount of information created, captured or replicated has exceeded available storage for the first time since 2007, and many organization's are spending far more time looking for information than actually using it. The size of the digital universe this year will be tenfold what it was just five years earlier. Therefore, organizations must find smarter data management approaches that enable them to effectively corral and optimize their data.

A business classification and information governance process can help guide and tame Big Data, preventing it from costing more than necessary, yet ensuring it is at hand when and where it's needed, while freeing IT staff to drive more strategic technology initiatives. Enterprises willing to create automated processes to identify and value business data can take control of information governance before the big-data onslaught swamps them. As a result, they can meet key corporate objectives, such as lowering costs, lowering risk and making better business decisions.

Attend this webinar for insights on:

- The practical benefits of information governance
- Developing a business classification initiative
- Big Data analytics tools
- Managing the Big Data lifecycle

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69 percent of organizations have employees using mobile devices to connect to their corporate network. This brings not only security concerns, but practical problems with managing a variety of devices that can contain both personal and corporate data. As a result, mobile device management (MDM) and bring your own device (BYOD) solutions for the enterprise are exploding into the market. Choosing the right solution will increase enterprise efficiency, while maintaining security security and regulatory compliance, without a massive burden on IT.

However, selecting a solution has never been more difficult. The explosive growth of the market has created a glut of new and relatively unknown vendors, the industry is far from mature with costs are all over the board. According to Forrester Research, there are over 40 vendors in the market, offering software with core features such as configuration management, troubleshooting and support, inventory, remote control and reporting capabilities. There are many methods of delivery, such as premise-based, hosted, SaaS, managed services, on demand, cloud computing and outsourced. With each term used in different ways, it can often be confusing and hard to compare, and every organization will have different reasons for selecting a particular method of delivery.

It is important to choose a vendor that will continue to innovate as the marketplace evolves and conscientious businesses take a proactive approach and seek to mitigate the emergent tactical needs with solutions that will serve in the longer term. Join our panel as they discuss ways to select the right MDM and BYOD solutions for your organization.

For many years complying with government standards and industry regulations has been seen as a check box in the lengthy list of IT security tasks. However, most recent changes in the environment and increased cyber security threats have led to a rethinking of this approach. With more than 365 security incidents reported in 2011 affecting over 126 million records, many organizations are rethinking the way they approach security, risk management, and compliance.

Technologies like virtualization, cloud computing, and social networking present companies with major opportunities to develop their businesses. However, it is important to keep one eye firmly fixed on the associated risks and businesses should be prepared for these incidents before they occur. More and more organizations realize that instead of looking at Governance, Risk, and Compliance from a centralized perspective, it is more efficient to let business operations drive these efforts as that 's where the organization's risk knowledge resides. Join this session for insights on:

* The challenges faced by senior executives in managing risk in the changing landscape.
* Successful approaches to tackle risk and its associated controls by business unit.
* Key steps to identify and address emerging risk.
* How to classify and manage unknown risk.
* Pitfalls to avoid when trying to automate risk management efforts.
* Getting the attention of executives to make sure that enough attention is being paid to the risk.
* How Compliance is tied to Risk Management in the context of business.

The rapid evolution of consumer devices and a growing demand from employees are changing the ways in which organizations deliver mobility solutions to the workforce. There are any number of new mobile devices and emerging technologies to help today's professionals do their jobs in any location, and these technologies bring a range of new challenges, from security, compliance and risk management, to cost and human capital management.

Organizations need to address these challenges by defining policies that regulate the usage of consumer and personal mobility for employees, and they need the appropriate tools to enforce policies, regulate behaviors and manage risks, across multiple device platforms. In addition, they need to choose the appropriate management approach and the products and services that can help to enforce those policies in a cost-effective way.
Join this expert panel for insights on:

* Understanding your mobile device management requirements;
* Identifying the risks and benefits of introducing support for corporate applications on personal devices;
* Defining policies that regulate the usage of mobile devices for employees and address BYOD;
* Tools to effectuate policies, regulate behaviors and manage risks across multiple device platforms;
* Strategies for containerization and layered security to protect devices, data and networks;
* Selecting the right options that can help to enforce and monitor policies in a cost-effective way.

Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) processes are extensive; they are how an organization is directed and managed to achieve goals, considering risks to achievement, and complying with applicable laws and regulations.

Issues around information have become central to organizational strategies and GRC software is needed in organizations, and investment in these areas has been increasing. The GRC software space is vast with over 400 GRC software providers that span multiple categories and sub-categories of GRC related software.

Implementing a solution can be a lengthy and costly exercise, so it is imperative to choose carefully from the large number of options in the market. The issue is sifting through all the vendors with their offerings to find the one that best fits your organization. Buyers should have a clear understanding of their organizations functionality requirements, and a strategy in place for selecting the right partner. Join this webcast, and learn how to choose the right GRC solution for your organization as our experts discuss:

- How to understand your organizations functionality needs.
- Guidance for selecting the right partner including examples of good RFP questions.
- How to sift through the different solutions and make weighted assessments against solution criteria.
- Core maintenance and ongoing feeding requirements.

Senior management at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations risk management capabilities. In a landscape filled with new threats and new regulations, risk management has never been more critical to senior leaders in all sectors. Whether you are maintaining an online banking system, sharing healthcare data with a business associate or rolling out a new mobile device policy to agency staff, you are tasked with understanding the information security risks and the management of controls.

This can be a daunting process, if risk management techniques are too complicated, they may discourage crucial input from colleagues and subject matter experts. If they are too simple, they won't yield enough relevant information to guide important business decisions. Join this roundtable discussion and learn how to:

- Develop a multi-tiered risk management approach built upon governance, processes and IT.
- Articulate the extent or size of a risk, and learn how to measure and communicate risks.
- Implement a risk management framework and link goverance and risk to establish continuous compliance.

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Cloud Computing has been hailed as the long sought after answer of low cost computing , where users can remotely store their data into the cloud and enjoy the on-demand high quality applications and services from a shared platform of resources. By outsourcing their data storage, users can be relieved from the burden of local data storage and maintenance, in some cases eliminating IT departments all together. However, no longer having physical possession of their data makes the data integrity protection in the Cloud environment sets the stage for a potentially lethal environment, especially for users with constrained computing resources and capabilities. Thus, allowing or even mandating 3rd party security and compliance audits for Cloud Service Providers (CSP) is of critical importance so that users can resort to an external audit party to check the integrity of outsourced data when needed.

The number one concern for many organizations is how to ensure adequate information security i.e. confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical data stored by the cloud service provider whilst also balancing the need for confidentiality versus integrity versus availability. This serious concern has created the need for standardization and consistency in audit and assurance practices in the cloud computing space, particularly third party audit and assurance. Over burdening the Cloud Service Providers with a multitude of continuous audits will increase the cost of the service and the internal costs associated with monitoring and managing the audit processes and reports.

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the issues surrounding the main concerns of Cloud Computing, the different audit approaches and tools that are being offered, the evaluation of those tools and what is a common sense, efficient and cost effective process to follow when evaluating a Cloud Service Provider.