Registration : http://www.isaca.lk/register/419

Date: 26th of January, 2012 (Thursday)

Time: 6.20 PM to 8.20 PM

Venue: Royal College (Skills Center) Auditorium. (Ample car parking along the side of Rajakeeya Mawatha)

Road directions: Please see the Google map at the bottom of this page.

This month's members' day is filled with 3 presentations packed with educational value. We invite all ISACA Sri Lanka Chapter members to come and enjoy the evening. We can accommodate a sizable number of non-ISACA members too.

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Date: 20th of December, 2011 (Tuesday)

Time: 6.20 PM to 8.20 PM

Venue: Royal College (Skills Center) Auditorium. (Ample car parking along the side of Rajakeeya Mawatha)

Road directions: Please see the Google map at the bottom of this page.

Sharmini is the Chief Risk Officer at LOLC. In this episode of ExpertTalk, she shares with us some of the practices that LOLC follows in making sure that the risk management practices are effective and successfully support the business objectives.

Download link: 20111124-Enterprise-Risk-Management-Sharmini-Wickramasekera.mp3
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Date: November 24th, 2011

Cloud computing defines a new way of how computing is done with a host of benefits. Since it emerged as a buzzword in 2007, it has quickly evolved to be a mainstream computing model. Today, cloud computing is enjoyed by many enterprises and individuals.

This seminar brings you an ideal blend of learnings that focuses on the technology perspective and the governance perspective - to suit both technical and governance professionals. ISACA events are filled with value and geared towards practical application. Your participation in this seminar will enable you and your organization to successfully adopt cloud computing and reap the benefits.

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The past decade experienced an exponential growth in network and internet bandwidth, computing power and storage capacity. The costs have come down, making these advances in technology affordable and accessible to a wider population. In a series of articles, we shall explore in detail, what this means to you and me.

There are three dimensions to all the trends presented here.

The use of online social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, FaceBook, MySpace, Orkut and Friendster by the mass public from the young to the old has provided an assistive environment for individuals to learn, play and to keep in touch with long lost friends and collegues. However this new "country" allows those who want to find out the best means to attack big corporations for various nefarious intensions, to carry out research in order to do so.

A license agreement consists of the licensor granting the licensee (based on mutual understanding) via a contractual agreement, the legitimate rights concerning the utilization of intellectual property pertaining to the licensor. Nevertheless, the licensor has explicit rights to the property, as per the license agreement, which also includes benefits that are generated from it. Moreover, if a violation of the agreement occurs, the licensor has the sole right to claim the property from the licensee.

Nowadays everyone needs an e-mail address and almost everyone has one mostly due to free e-mail services. But how  many  of us are concerned  about  the safety of our e-mail  account?  Here are few tips that we suggest you to follow in order to make your e-mail account safe.

In the present day and increasingly in the future, laptop and mobile devices consist of diversified functions that are integrated into their “small-factor” to formulate the efficient and effective usage for assisting the growing mobile users (both corporate and personal).

Though these devices technologically tend to be advanced and user friendly, they consist of common information and entry points for gathering sensitive information. This type of information gathering mainly affects the confidentiality of the data that they sustain. Hence the outcome of risks they result in if stolen, would span a diverse threat landscape that would assist in effortless inception of other types of attacks. Typically the following information is available in such devices:

ISACA Members’ Day – January 2011

The Members’ Day organized by the ISACA Sri Lanka chapter, on Economies of Cyber Crimes was successfully held on 26^th January 2011 at Excel World Entertainment Park with the participation of more than 50 professional members, student members and distinguished invitees. The session was conducted by Dr K Rama Subramaniam. 

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