January 2007

Central Maryland ISACA Chapter

Monthly Meeting

The ISACA Central Maryland Chapter invites you to our training session on Wednesday, January 10, 2007. The topic for this session is A Day on Security With G Mark Hardy.  Auditors, IT professionals, and internal control specialists will benefit from this session. The training session is conveniently located at the Maritime Institute of Technology easily accessible off of MD-295 Baltimore / Washington Parkway.

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 

Place: 

Maritime Institute of Technology, 

692 Maritime Boulevard, 

Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1952, 

(410) 859-5700 

Bridge Room in Academic Building 3  

For directions, visit: http://www.mitags.org/text_directions : MAP

Topic: A Day on Security with G. Mark Hardy

Planned CPE's: 7.0  (CPE credits are based on 50 minute increments)

Times: 

Menu:

Continental Breakfast :    includes coffee, tea, assorted breakfast pastries, seasonal fruit, assorted   fruit juices, and bottled water. 

Lunch :    includes All-you-can-eat lunch buffet in the main dining room.

PM break includes :     coffee, tea, assorted sodas, cookies, brownies, seasonal fruit, Chef’s choice snack and bottled water. 

Price:                                             REGISTER HERE

Members  $150

Non-Members  $200

(Member Prices are for all ISACA and ISSA members and members of the local chapters of the IIA, AGA, and CFE)

Late Registrants: Please add $25 to price above for registrations and payments received after January 3, 2007.

Discount:  $25 discount per person if registration is paid before December 29, 2006

Payment:  Please mail checks, payable to ISACA-CMC, to:

Kisha-Dawn Greenidge

c/o PwC

250 W. Pratt St. Suite 2100

Baltimore , MD 21201

Speaker Profile:

G. Mark Hardy, CISSP, CISM, CISA  Mr. Hardy has over twenty-five years experience in information security (INFOSEC). Extensive experience as professional consultant. Wrote, produced, and presented half-day security seminars nationwide. Speaks frequently at major security conferences. Significant work in information security and electronic commerce. Progressively increasing responsibility for project management, application design, and developing technical solutions to business requirements. Proven effective manager, team member.

Highly acclaimed speaker at conferences and security symposia, including keynotes at Annual Conference & Expo on Control and Audit of Information Technology, National White Collar Crime Center Economic Crime Summit , Forum on Information Security in Government, InfoSec World, Senator Sam Nunn CEO Forum on Information Security, Conference on Mobile and Wireless Security. Conference chairman of eGov Information Assurance, Information Integrity World Summit , Information Security in the Age of Terrorism, The Information Security Vulnerability Summit . Speaker at Software Technology Conference (STC), Technology for Information Security Conference (TISC), Computer Security Institute (CSI), National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC), Practical Security, among others. Internationally recognized expert, speaking at several European and Asian security conferences. National media exposure, appearing multiple times on CNN.

Researched, wrote, produced, and presented 40 half-day Information Security seminars annually across North America three consecutive years. Have presented to several thousand information security prospects; conversion rate into customers is 60%. This translated into $25 million in additional revenue. Wrote Information Security Handbook for Enterprise Computing, a highly requested promotional item used to attract prospects and reward attendees.

Developed positioning papers in Information Security marketplace for leading security software vendor; created highly effective layered security model marketing strategy.  Authored paper on future of information security industry; selected for presentation and publishing at Conference on Emerging Issues in Business and Technology. Principal contract negotiator between software vendor and consulting service vendors. Involved with successfully establishing contracts with Big 6 consulting firms, leading security consulting firms, and internationally known high-profile security experts.

RESERVATIONS: For reservations, please submit via the web site http://www.isaca-cmc.org/ or call Pat Hamilton at (301) 592-5042 by NOON on Friday, January 5th. If there is no answer, please leave a voice mail message when prompted.  If you wish to have the reservation confirmed be sure to leave a return phone number.  You will automatically receive a confirmation if you registered via the web site.  We will attempt to accommodate walk-ins, but please secure your seat with a timely reservation.  Because this meeting requires special accommodations, late charges do apply for late registrants after the January 5th deadline and walk-ins