Learning
In an effort to make “Learning” more focused on the specific needs of our membership, we have reviewed our course offerings and launched a completely new programme for the next 12 months. The new programme offers a wider range of course, at more locations, and with more detail provided on each, to help you judge better who to nominate for the course, and the likely benefits to be achieved from it.
Mailshot 2009-12-18 - Penetration testing can find more than you expected
Regular IT Health Checks and penetration testing are necessary to protect your network, website and individual devices against external and internal threats. Compliance and good governance aside, however, penetration testing can often come up with surprising results. Socitm Consulting's IT security partners, Encription Ltd, have been performing â?~top of the treeâ?T quality penetration testing for several years, and have uncovered some alarming cases.
Business continuity - putting information at the heart of the plan
Managing and assuring information is becoming an increasingly critical part of business continuity. Does the Council of the Future focus pur planning not so much on the protection of the physical asset as the protection of the information asset?
Managing information - your greatest asset
Making the right information available in the right format at the right time to the right people inside and outside the organisation is vital to efficiency. Information Management combines many difficult challenges, but getting it right brings huge benefits.
ISO27001 scoping
Flintshire County Council get on track to attain ISO27001 accreditation with Socitm Consulting help.
Information management
Strategically, information management needs to be closely bound with your business and ICT strategy. Neither can work effectively without the other. It is also vitally concerned with information quality, information security and business continuity – both for the organisation and for its customers and partners. Historically, organisations have struggled to meet the need for accurate and well-structured information.
Information assurance
"Recognition that information is the key asset and responsibilities and processes must be in place to assure its quality, accuracy, timeliness and security"
Data Protection Act compliance programme
The project issues
The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) required the provision of a Data Protection Act compliance audit based on the Office of the Information Commissioner’s (OIC) guidance manual, to assess the standard of critical documentation - i.e. policies, procedures, records etc. - across all major systems (both paper and electronic) and departments. TTA wished to obtain expert advice from a suitably qualified and experienced consultancy to create and implement procedures and practices to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA).
