Synopsis

As technology, general business and regulatory environments move forward, the convergence of business process and IT governance controls plays an increasingly important role in the success of enterprises. Managing the changes in these key controls and business processes will be critical to an organization's ability to grow and succeed in the global market.

The objective of this presentation is to provide an overview and discussion points on the convergence and the impact of changes to organizations:

•  Changing IT controls
•  Changing business models
•  Continued regulatory and legislative requirements (including Sarbanes-Oxley)

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About the Speaker

Stephen Spalding is the CEO of Vigilant Privacy Corporation. Vigilant Privacy focuses on providing enterprise technology solutions and services supporting a wide range of legal and compliance requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley.

Previously, Stephen spent eighteen years in the "Big 4" with progressively expanding roles, eleven of those years as a partner. As a partner with Deloitte, he developed the San Francisco Bay Area Enterprise Risk Services practice. This major practice area included Internal Audit Services, Financial Audit Support, Technology Control Assurance, Data Quality and Enterprise Risk Management. He provided overall responsibility and leadership for a practice of 120 professionals and 12 partners. He also established the firm's first National e-Center practice and the USA western-region Network Quality Assurance practice to support clients with network architecture, security, availability and infrastructure services. As a partner with KPMG, Stephen was one of the three founding partners of KPMG's Information Risk Management practice. Before joining KPMG, Stephen established Internal IT Audit functions at two Fortune 100 companies.

Stephen is a frequent keynote speaker at ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) regional and national (USA) events and sits on the Security Advisory Group of the COBIT ( Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) Committee.

Since 1995, Stephen has been an instructor at San Francisco State University, where he designed and teaches "Internal Audit and Business Systems Management and Control" at the senior/graduate level. He holds a MBA, Quantitative Analysis, from the University of Arizona, and B.S. degrees in Finance and Management, Physics (solid state) and Mathematics from Eastern Illinois University.