Next week, the GRC team heads to Washington, D.C. for the
Governance, Risk & Compliance Conference, taking place on Tuesday, August 4th at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Meet the team at our exhibit table #5 for a demo of our CA GRC Manager solutions.
If you plan to attend, be sure to check out the "Governance Strategies for a Web 2.0 World" session running from 9:30 "" 10:30 am on August 4th (
see the full schedule here).
Allan Gajadhar, one of regular blog contributors, will be sharing his thoughts on the topic as part of a panel of experts, along with representatives from Government Insights, US Intelligence Community, AIIM and the Department of Education.
The focus of the session will be:
The adoption by Federal IT professionals of exciting new social networking and collaboration web applications raises several thorny security and privacy issues as well as highlighting a potential generational divide in the public sector workforce. Learn what the minimal levels of acceptable governance are based on recent successful Web 2.0 implementations.
Attendees will learn:
- What are the main factors to be considered when balancing Web 2.0 application implementation and security/privacy needs?
- What are the minimal levels of acceptable governance for Web 2.0 implementations?
- What steps can an IT manager take to help their organization embrace the changes needed to realize the benefits of Web 2.0 applications?
- What are some of the major Web 2.0 implementation pitfalls?
See you in D.C.!