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CSO PERSPECTIVES CONFERENCE WRAP UP
The CSO Perspectives Conference in Clearwater Florida March 1-3 was well attended. Included in the attendees were 10 members of the CSO Breakfast Club. Three of those members were part of a panel discussion entitled "Audit Fatigue". Dana Pickett - T Rowe Price, Don Horn - CareFirst and Jason Taule - General Dynamics IT all participated as panelists at the conference. CSO Breakfast Club founder and Executive Director Bill Sieglein moderate the panel which also included Craig Hackett a national bank examiner from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Chris Ritterbush an Executive Director with E&Y. While the panel did not solve the problem of multiple, overlapping audits, they did raise the awareness of attendees as to the newest attempts to audit once and share many with the BITS FISAP and HITRUST audit programs that are gaining recognition.
CSO Breakfast Club Executive Director Writing for BlogInfosec.com
Bill Sieglein is now writing for BlogInfosec.com - a popular online infosec magazine in blog format. Bill joins some well-known industry veterans to include Warren Axelrod, Allan Pomerantz and Ken Belva. Make sure you check out his articles and provide comments and feedback. Go to bloginfosec.com.
ABOUT THE CLUB
When club founder Bill Sieglein was a CSO a few years ago he found it very powerful to speak with his peers to learn what they were doing, how well things were going for them and simply share ideas. While there were a number of associations he belonged to, none seemed to provide the opportunity for his security executive peers and he to talk about concepts in an environment where sharing was safe. From that desire, to have peer-to-peer contact with other security executives in a safe environment, grew the CSO Breakast Club. The goal of the club is to SHARE, EDUCATE and ELEVATE. See our mission document for more.
Here’s the plan. About every eight weeks or so we meet at a location in one of the cities where we have a club. We will post events on this site under the News/Events page and send invites to those of you on our contact list. Feel free to spread the word to your colleagues. We will have a general topic for discussion and, when you show up we eat some breakfast, drink some coffee and discuss our topic. We will have expert speakers, panels and occaisionally invite vendors to share their solutions with us when you agree you want to hear from them. You pick the topics!
What’s the benefit to you and your organization? We have found that in a casual atmosphere, such as this, folks are willing to be open and honest and share. In such a setting we can help each other out. Let’s say, for example, that you are about to embark on an identity and access management project and you have a few concerns. Let’s also assume that one of the other attendees happens to have just completed an identity management project. That’s a perfect opportunity to discuss lessons learned and benefit from one-another’s experiences. You know the hackers are working together, why shouldn’t we?
So, check back periodically and look for an invite in your email soon. | 
