May Meeting

Effective Change Controls

Please join ISACA Atlanta and Tripwire to learn about effective change controls.
 
Effective change controls are foundational to any IT control environment, and considerable guidance on auditing change controls exist. However, IT auditors continue to face several challenges:
  • Much of the audit guidance is in the form of checklists, and understanding, which control activities are the most important is often lost.
  • Much of the guidance written pre-dates research that shows certain change control activities are not only foundational to reducing business risk, but also provide substantial business effectiveness and efficiency benefits as well.
  • Auditors may not be adequately equipped to effectively challenge IT management and the answers they provide around change control issues.

This three-hour workshop is composed of two parts: a one-hour lecture component, followed by two one-hour assessment sessions where small groups will work together.

You will learn more about: 

  • Effective and ineffective change management processes, and the means to determine by interview which classification IT managers fall into.
  • How to ask probing questions that help IT managers not only identify incorrect beliefs and through-processes, but also motivate positive change.
  • Tools needed to solve the business needs around change control.
  • How to motivate, build and maintain high performing change control processes.
 
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Registration: 12:30PM-1PM
Meeting: 1PM-4PM
CPE: 3 Credits
 
Speaker: Michael Lohr
  Michael Lohr has spent the past ten years in the high tech industry assisting his customers with large scale deployments and enterprise application integration projects. Michael manages the Sales Engineering team for Tripwire on the East Coast and he spends frequent time with Tripwire’s largest customers helping them with compliance and change management concerns. Michael joined Tripwire in 2004 with an extensive background in integrating large back end system together to provide an enhanced workflow for his client’s customers as well as their employees. In the time that he has been part of Tripwire, he built upon his integration background by adding best practice processes knowledge, like ITIL to his skill set. He currently holds a CISA certification and is an ITIL Practitioner in Release and Control.
   
Location: Villa Christina
  4000 Summit Boulevard
  Atlanta, GA 30319
  Phone: 404-303-0133
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Online Registration & Payment

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY MAY 13, 2009
 
ISACA Members: $75
Non-Members: $100
Parking Fee: Free
 
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