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DATE:
April 24th, 2006
PRESENTERS:
Brett Durand and Prateek Agrawal
PLACE: Crowne Plaza,
Clark, NJ
(see directions below)
TIME:
ATTIRE: Business Casual
CE CREDITS:
1
COST: $25.00 Members $35
Non-members (Dinner included) Free for any member who joined or
transferred into the Chapter after 12/31/2005; however, pre-registration
is required to obtain this benefit.
Please indicate any dietary
requirements.
Registration: Please complete the
Registration form
(
www.njisaca.org/form_registration.htm )
Monday, April 24, 2006 -
Evening Seminar
SOX Compliance - Industry Lessons
Learned
Course Overview
As businesses move
through Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, we need to understand how other
companies have complied with these regulations. As a result, we are
holding a dinner meeting to discuss the lessons learned over the past two
years.
We have two
speakers who will discuss their companies' experiences and what they
learned from their compliance efforts.
The topics will
include:
- Lessons learned from SOX BPO Testing in 2005
- Using a risk-based approach for scoping SOX application audits
- Oracle Financials/shared services model for centralized testing of
applications/infrastructure
- IT Governance re-alignment
April Speakers
Brett Durand, CISA, CIA and Prateek Agrawal
Brett Durand is
an IT Audit Manager with Pfizer's Corporate Internal Audit group based in
New York, NY. Since joining Pfizer in 2004, Brett has worked extensively
with organization's myriad corporate and market-based IT groups in
developing and implementing the company's SOX IT audit approach. Over the
past two years, Brett has lead numerous audits and pre-implementation
reviews oriented toward enterprise applications, data center
infrastructure, local IT groups that support Pfizer's global operations,
and global IT processes (e.g., vulnerability management, records
retention, information protection planning, etc.). He is a contributing
member of Pfizer's Information Security Council and Planning & Service
Delivery Council. Before joining Pfizer, Brett was an Advisor with the
Fish & Neave IP Group of Ropes & Gray, where he advised clients in matters
relating to intellectual property procurement, licensing, litigation, and
portfolio/risk assessment. He has also held IT audit and project
management positions with Fidelity Investments, SNL Financial, and James
Madison University. Brett earned an MBA in Finance and MS in Information
Systems from Boston University's Graduate School of Management and is a
CISA and CIA.
Prateek Agrawal:
Prateek Agrawal is presently a Director at Citigroup, responsible
for Global Technology Infrastructure audits. He recently moved from
Singapore where he was responsible for technology audit coverage in 18
Asia-Pacific countries. Besides technology audits, he was involved with
several key initiatives in the region relating to mergers and
acquisitions, and outsourcing activities in India, China and the
Philippines. Prateek started his career at Systematics, prior to joining
Citibank, in Chicago in 1992. Subsequently, he has held several
progressive assignments in the review of information and emerging
technologies, and participated in several projects and quality
initiatives. He has been instrumental in restructuring and improving both
the project review and technology audit review processes. He has also
launched several process improvement initiatives that have made a positive
impact upon the productivity, control environment, and quality. He holds a
degree in Computer Science & Business Administration from Augustana
College, as well as an MBA in Finance & International Business from
Fordham University. He has previously authored "Automating Risk
Assessment" for ISACA's IS Control Journal.
April Directions - Crowne Plaza
36 Valley Road, Clark, NJ 07066 Phone: (732) 574-0100
Driving
Directions
From Garden
State Parkway Southbound -
Garden State Parkway to Exit 135, Stay in Left Lane, Follow Circle to 2nd
Exit on Right, Follow Signs for Linden....Hotel will be on the Left.
From Garden
State Parkway Northbound -
Take Exit 135 and bear to the right. Follow the circle to the 2nd exit on
the right, following the signs to Linden. The hotel is immediately on the
left.
For specific
directions from your location, please see
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