ISACA Kentuckiana Chapter Meeting (March 2010)

TOPIC:
Making the case for Microsoft Virtualization
In this session we will discuss why MaximumASP picked Hyper-V over all Microsoft’s competitors. This will be a no holds barred discussion about Hyper-V from a customer’s perspective:  how provisioning servers took 3 days, then 15 minutes, then 1 minute and the true dollars and cents that were saved. No Microsoft marketing fluff.  Just the good, the bad, and the learning pains we have gone through building a virtual datacenter.

A tour of the data center will be available after the presentation. Partcipants will be required to sign a waiver prior to the tour.

MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourcing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 countries. With a strong focus on hosting solutions that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for Microsoft developers seeking a robust hosting platform for mission-critical web applications. For more information visit www.maximumasp.com.
 

WHEN:
Friday, March 26th 2010
11:30 – 12:00 Networking
12:00 – 1:00 Speaker

WHERE:
MaximumASP
2080 Nelson Miller Parkway (map)
Suite 100
Louisville, KY 40223
866.925.4678

COST: FREE – 1 Hour of CPE (Jimmy Johns provided for lunch)
Please RSVP to meetings@isacaky.org  before March 24, 2010 at 5pm.
Please include your selection of sandwich from Jimmy Johns listed below:

(Note: All lunches will be box lunches and will include a bag of chips + cookie)
BIO:
Dominic Foster is Chief Technology Officer of MaximumASP, a Microsoft Gold Certified Provider of web hosting and managed IT services, as well as the star left wing for a two-time Stanley Keg winning ice hockey team in Louisville, Kentucky. Foster, known in certain circles as the Punk Rock CTO,  joined MaximumASP in 2000 and currently has more than ten years experience designing, implementing and administering Windows technologies. New product and emerging technology research and development are primary responsibilities with key areas of focus on  Virtualization, and IIS. Foster also oversees a systems engineer team responsible for maintaining  more than 48,000 domains for customers in over 60 countries.
 
Foster’s expertise and active involvement in early builds of both technologies was a large factor in the success of MaximumASP’s partnership with Microsoft as the first to offer hosted accounts on Hyper-V and IIS 7. Foster, topped by his signature funky hair, has been a valued speaker at conferences, user groups and various interviews with online publications for his no-nonsense, unbiased opinions.

ISACA Kentuckiana Chapter Meeting (Feb 2010)

TOPIC:
Corporations spend millions of dollars every year to ensure against external security threats, but what about internal threats?  Statistics show that companies lose more assets to internal fraud than intrusion hacking.  A good deal of those losses have resulted from a single employee with too much application access, where that employee is performing several high risk processes in an uncontrolled environment.  This session will describe the methods used to detect, mitigate and control segregation of duty issues.

WHEN:
Friday, February 26th 2010
11:30 – 12:00 Networking
12:00 – 1:00 Speaker

WHERE:
The Council on Developmental Disabilities
1151 S. 4th Street (map)
Louisville, KY 40203
http://www.councilonmr.org/
(502) 582-1995

Parking is available across the street in the old Winn-Dixie lot.

COST: FREE – 1 Hour of CPE (Pizza provided for lunch)
Please RSVP to meetings@isacaky.org before February 24, 2010 at 5pm.

BIO:
Nancy Burns, CISA, has worked in Information Technology for 39 years, the past 21 years at Brown-Forman Corporation.  Over her career, she has held several management positions in IT including technical support, network management, telecommunications, operations and IT auditing.  Her experience with segregation of duty issues began with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act where she managed a large project to mitigate over 15,000 SoDs.  Today, Ms. Burns is Brown-Forman’s IT Compliance Analyst, which includes the monitoring and resolution of SoDs, as well as control compliance and testing.

ISACA/IIA Student Reception (Feb 2010)

The Accounting and CIS student reception is scheduled for February 22, 2010 at the University Club at the University of Louisville from 4 to 6 PM. Students from all of the local colleges are encouraged to attend. This reception is jointly sponsored by the IIA and ISACA.

All ISACA and IIA members are encouraged to attend to meet and mentor students.