NEWPORT BEACH, CA USA -- HIT/HIPAA UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- MAY 30, 2007:ecfirst.com, Learn about the latest trends in information security, and find out how you can protect your network from breaches. Join CompTIA and ecfirst.com, home of the HIPAA Academy, for the cybercast, Security and Compliance: Next Steps toward a Secure Organization.
We'll examine the state of information security with particular emphasis on current challenges, compliance requirements, and emerging best practices and recommendations. This is a high-energy, fast paced presentation that addresses the topics vital to securing today's digital information business assets.
This Cybercast covers:
- Top-line findings from the 5th Annual CompTIA Security Research
- Primary Challenges in the Current Security Landscape
- Changes in corporate risk perception and spending
- Threats to the information infrastructure and challenging organizations face in effectively managing information security
- Compliance and the Enterprise: Next Steps
- Important regulatory compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FISMA and others, that impact businesses across many industries
- Security guidelines and standards such as NIST publications and the ISO 17799:2005 security methodology
- Training and Certification as Tools for Network Security
- Critical policies that businesses must develop, including wireless security, mobile device policy and encryption
- Seven steps to enterprise security to enable a resilient, robust and roving defense
Hosted by:
- Carol Balkcom, CompTIA Security+ Product Manager
- Uday Ali Pabrai, CompTIA Security+, CISSP (ISSAP, ISSMP), CSCS™, Chairman & CEO, ecfirst.com.
Mr. Pabrai has more than twenty years of hands-on consulting experience in information security and compliance. He is the creator of the world's most successful Internet skills certification, CIW, and author of The Art of Information Security. Mr. Pabrai also established the industry's first certification programs on HIPAA, Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist™ (CHSS™). He recently launched the Certified Security Compliance Specialist™ (CSCS™) program.
All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the ISO 17799:2005 quick reference card.
ABOUT ECFIRST.COM:
ecfirst.com is a leader with rich hands-on experience delivering world-class security regulatory compliance solutions. The ecfirst.com Regulatory Compliance Practice delivers deep expertise with its full suite of services that include single sign-on, context management, contingency planning/Business Impact Analysis (BIA), vulnerability assessment, as well as managed compliance, security and IT infrastructure solutions.
ecfirst.com assists all types of organizations with their compliance initiatives for a secure information infrastructure that is compliant with the HIPAA regulation. ecfirst.com can help you with your HIPAA challenges and priorities. ecfirst.com solutions help your organization implement the security safeguards required as a result of the HIPAA legislation. ecfirst.com, an Inc. 500 business, serves a Who's Who client list that includes numerous hospitals, state and county governments, and hundreds of organizations. Talk to ecfirst.com and you will find an organization that is passionate about its services and devoted to its clients. Ask for a free copy of The Art of Information Security (limited to one per organization only).
For more information, please visit www.ecfirst.com.
ABOUT HIPAA ACADEMY:
HIPAA Academy delivers compliance solutions across the United States every day. Our deep knowledge of the HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations is substantiated with hands-on experience implementing technical solutions in the healthcare industry. The HIPAA Academy introduced the industry's first, and today's leading, credentials for HIPAA skills certification: Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) and Certified HIPAA Security Specialist (CHSS). HIPAA Academy training courses and certification exams are now available on-line. For more information, please visit www.hipaaacademy.net.
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