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Greetings!
Thanks to everyone that participated in our Membership Survey. We've summarized the results, and we will be making some changes to our processes, including: emailing our job announcements that are posted to our website and doing a better job of recognizing our members for their accomplishments.
We randomly selected two members who completed the survey to one of two Apple iPad's - CONGRATULATIONS to Marnie Wilking with Wells Fargo and Christine Monzon with Boeing!!!
I would also like to thank Patrick Potter and Christian Chelsey for their outstanding service to our organization. Patrick was a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Membership Committee. Christian served as a member of the Membership Committee. Unfortunately, due to work and other organizational commitments, they have decided to resign from their positions. We appreciate all of Patrick and Christian's volunteer efforts.
Thanks for helping us make this a great chapter.
Sincerely,
Adam Remis
President, ISACA Phoenix Chapter |
 | October Chapter Meeting Recap | |
This past month we had the opportunity to learn from two great speakers. Please be sure to view copies of their presentations on our website:
- Lunch Session: Project Implementation Successes and Failures, by Anthony Samer, Managing Director, Protiviti - Anthony provided an excellent overview of high-value areas where audit can help improve project implementations and what high risk areas to look for.
- Afternoon Session: Software Risk Assessment, by Erik Graham, Principal Information Security Engineer, General Dynamics - Erik was as engaging as ever as he reviewed what General Dynamics does to ensure that software (purchased and open source) is acceptable for his environment and provided great take aways for how other organizations can improve security by ensuring accepted software applications are used.
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| CRISC Grandfathering |
 Earlier this year, ISACA introduced the CRISC (pronounced "see-risk") for IT professionals who have hands-on experience with:
- Risk identification, assessment, & evaluation
- Risk response
- Risk monitoring
- IS control design and implementation
- IS control monitoring and maintenance
IT professionals with 8 or more years of experience can earn this certification under the grandfathering program, which runs from April 2010 through March 2011.
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| Call out for Volunteers |
The Chapter is looking for individuals who would like to make a difference in the IT governance, audit, and security community.  Volunteer opportunities are available on the Membership and Education Committees:
- Membership Committee - our objective is to recruit, retain, and enrich chapter members' experiences. We assist the Board to identify and fulfill membership needs, such as organizing the annual membership appreciation event. Please contact Tim Cox, Director.
- Education Committee - our objective is to ensure that members have high-value, low-cost training opportunities via bi-monthly chapter meetings and quarterly training events. We help identify speakers and coordinate events. Please contact Jon Chandler, Director.
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| January Chapter Meeting Invitation | |
In January our chapter meeting will be January 27, please join for a great opportunity to learn and network:
- Impact of Social Networking on the Audit Function by Charlie Blanchard, Security & Privacy Services Manager, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Note, this will be the topic of both the lunch and afternoon sessions. |
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