This event will take place at the National Convention Centre in Canberra, Australia between 6-11 September 2009. Further information on the conference speakers and registration can be found in the brochure provided here. Register before 31 July 2009 to go in the draw to win an iPhone!

Overview
The Wellington ISACA & IIA lunchtime education sessions for 2009 are being held jointly on the last Friday of each month.    Format
12.00 – 12.45    ISACA Session
12.45 – 13.15    Networking Lunch
13.15 – 14.00    IIA Session

Registrations
For catering purposes please register your interest, also any special dietary requirements with alannah.grainger@iianz.org.nz   by Monday 22 June.  Please ensure you register on time.    Cost

Will Dougherty and Graeme McLellan from Price, Waterhouse Coopers spoke on Data Loss Prevention for our May lunchtime education session.  Their presentation including  PWC's Australian Tax office's Information Security Practices Review are available here for review.

ISACA International will host its next e-Symposium on Tuesday, 26 May titled, "Web Application Security: Intelligent Choices." The event begins at 4:00pm BST (London time)  which is Wednesday 27th, 3:00am NZDT (New Zealand Time) -- and lasts for 3 hours. Members can earn 3 free CPEs.

We are pleased to confirm arrangements for our next joint presentation to be held on Tuesday 5th May 2009 at 3:30PM in Christchurch. We are privileged to have the Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff agree to address us to launch the results of the 'Business and Security - Portable Storage Devices Survey '. This survey is an initiative of the Privacy Commissioner and is a topic of direct relevance and importance to IT audit, governance and assurance professionals, other business professionals and all who work with personal information and technology.

Overview
The Wellington ISACA and IIA lunchtime education sessions for 2009 are being held jointly each month.  Please note the special Thursday session this time.

Format
12.00 – 12.45 ISACA Session
12.45 – 13.15 Networking Lunch
13.15 – 14.00 IIA Session

The Wellington ISACA and IIA lunchtime education sessions for 2009 are being held jointly on the last Friday of each month.

Format

12.00 – 12.45 ISACA Session

12.45 – 13.15 Networking Lunch

13.15 – 14.00 IIA Session

Registrations

All Wellington Chapter members are invited to a meeting this Thursday to finalise version 1.0 of the IT audit guidelines for securing personal data, which we developed last year. It
will be good to see the results of our efforts being formally released and I would encourage you to get along to the meeting if you can.  At that meeting we would like to wrap up any further comments before we release version 1.0 and also to organise a panel for further development of the guidelines.

TopCAATs – 25% discount for ISACA members

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Disclaimer - This is a promotion by the supplier, with no implied endorsement of the product by ISACA Wellington.

ISACA Wellington would welcome reviews of the product by its members.

This article was originally published at IIA IT Audit Magazine (April 2008)

Knowing the basics of an effective identity and access management strategy can help auditors provide recommendations that enhance an organization's information security posture.