23rd July 2008, Impiana KLCC & SPA Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Contact Mr. Saravana at 016-2420864 for more details.

It can take less than 60 seconds for a company’s reputation to be ruined and its business to be crippled. In just one minute a server failure or hacker can knock out vital applications and lead to a catastrophic series of events. This can do untold damage to a company’s reputation, taking months or years to rectify. Some may never open their doors again.

“A Blind date with Disaster, looking beyond The Business Continuity Plan”, looks at areas that many BCM Manager, Directors and professionals give little attention too but pay dearly when disaster strikes. This one day event will provide insights from top analysts and industry partners. For companies that currently have a business continuity plan in place, this seminar will help make sure that your company is taking into account all the considerations that need to be made. This August we invite you to meet six renowned speakers in the field of Business Continuity Management tackle some of these critical issues.

What You Will Learn

The seminar will examine and discuss some of the most important issues associated with business continuity operations affecting state and local government, businesses and communities. It will identify both technical and ordinary facets of the overall recovery challenge and help emergency managers, disaster experts, and other officials to sort out the key elements crucial to a Business Continuity Plan. It will allow you to examine approaches and strategies which may be useful in times of future crises affecting your community and workforce.

Who should attend?

• Senior Emergency Managers
• Disaster Recovery Managers & Infrastructure Restoration Officials
• Business and Government Continuity Officials
• First Responders, Public Health, EMS, Public Safety, Fire, Law Enforcement
• State and Local Leaders
• Federal, State, and Local Government Officials
• Data and Tele-communication and information technology managers

Agency Executives concerned with continuity of operations

For more information, contact Mr. Saravana at 016-2420864

23 & 24 June 2008 ,
Seminar Room 3,
UTM Citycampus Kuala Lumpur

2 & 3 June 2008 ,
Boardroom 1, Level 10 Legend Hotel
Kuala Lumpur

THE OBJECTIVE

It is estimated that 30% of all businesses suffer from fraud.  Human Resource Department is the first defenses of an organization to prevent the employees that they have employed are with high integrity. Hence, recognizing the cost of fraud and the value of fraud prevention is crucial to ensure the overall success of combating human resource fraud.

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT

Participants will be able to acquire the skills to prevent and fight fraud and explore ways to mitigate the risks.  You will be exposed and learnt how to take control of the situation and able to notice the red flags before it hits your organisation.

TRAINER:                                

MR.TAN CHIN HUANG, (MBA, CFE, CFP, MCH,CFT)                            

Mr Tan Chin Huang is the Head of Internal Audit in one of the holdings company listed in the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia.  He has more than 20 years of experience covering various departments in financial institutions i.e. Business Operations, Financial, General and Operations, Risk Management, IT projects, ICT audit, as well as Investigation.  He had previously involved in a transformation of Internal Audit in a banking institution and has developed risk based auditing approach applicable to any industry.  He has adopted the renowned international best practices and standard and Computer Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques such as COBIT Framework, RACE, ISO17799, IT Governance, Enterprise Risk Management based on COSO framework and ACL. 

Mr Tan had represented Internal Audit Division of a financial institution to a vendor office in India to conduct an Acceptance Testing, Security and Quality Assurance review to ensure the quality of the IT software meet the Bank’s requirements. He has implemented a Security Health Checklist in a banking institution.  He is able to blend his vast auditing, IT, Business and management skill and experience to deliver value added services to his clients.  He had developed an IT Security Health Checklist to the organisation.

In the years of auditing, he had investigated matters related to fraud, forgery, manipulations, criminal breach of trust and other banking and insurance related areas.  He is an internationally recognised Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE).

He is also a frequent speaker and chairperson in numerous conferences and workshop in Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines covering vast scope of work such as:

Corporate Fraud Conference;

Preventing and Detecting Fraud;

Electronic Documentation and Records Management;

Credit and Operational Risk Management for Financial Institution Conference;

Corporate Governance and Transparency Conference;

Deriving on Returns on investment (ROI) on IT investment,

Internal Audit and Compliance Conference;

Chief Financial Officer Conference;

Internal Audit Conference; 

Leadership and life skill development;

Emotional intelligent;

Pre-marriage workshop;

Counsellor and Supervisory Training;

etc. 

He was also invited to the CIO Asia round table discussion on “Return on IT Investment” 

Mr Tan has completed his Master in Business Administration majoring in International Business.  He had also acquired:

Certified Financial Planner (USA); 

Certified Fraud Examiners (USA);

Islamic Financial Planner Module 1 (currently, there is only one module);

Internal Audit Quality Assessor (USA);

Master Clinical Hypnotherapist (USA);

Currently pursue on Play Therapy certificate and supervisor course (UK).

For more information, please call Mr. Saravana/Mr. Faiz at 03-2169 6347

The Objective

Understand the fundamental of Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Internal Controls. Hence, able to identify, define and establish risk mitigating.

HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT

Participants will be able to understand and appreciate the spirit of implementing an Enterprise Risk Management in the organization.  This will allow greater buy in and co-operations in ensuring the success of Enterprise Risk Management by all levels of employees.

TRAINER:

MS. ZANARIAH ZAHARI

Ms.Zanariah holds the position of Assistant Manager, Operations Audit for one Holdings Company listed in the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia. She has with her 10 years of Auditing and Investigative experience in various areas within Banking and Financial Institutions.  With her background, she is awarded with the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, USA. Her area of expertise is on verification of signatures, handwriting, cheques, documents and etc.

She had led investigations which solved numerous fraud cases during her employment. Recent experience has comprised of a wide range of assignments within the financial institutions including major investigations on financial fraud, cheating, manipulations and criminal breach of trust.  Besides doing audit and investigations, she also assists clients in the establishment of policy and procedures on audit, credit, risk management, corporate governance and fraud related matters. She had given advice in relation to Anti-Money-Laundering, Balance Scorecard, Fraud and IT Security Management to various Financial Institutions.

She has been exposed to multiple environments of businesses from Finance, Banking, Merchant Banking, Securities, Fund and Trust Management, Moneybroking, Discount Houses, Insurance and etc. This blend of expertise allows her to bring great values to many organisations.

In the years of auditing, she is proponent of the international best practices in the aspect of risk management such as BASEL II, Corporate Governance and COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Integrated Framework. She had also adopted the Computer Assisted Audit Technique (CAAT) such as RACE and COBIT to produce quality audit reports for a Banking Institution.

Ms.Zanariah is acknowledged as a person with varied capabilities. She is competent and positive in her outlook as well as confident in meeting whatever goals and challenges that she faces. She has zeal to meet challenges and is enthusiastic in whatever tasks and responsibilities entrusted to her.

Ms. Zanariah graduated with BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom in 1995.

For more information, please call Mr. Saravana/Mr. Faiz at 03-2169 6347

The lack of system maintenance & system upgrades , outdates features, ensuring time and date are correct , quality of picture and recording methods have made the function of security surveillance redundant. Sometimes, an outdated camera is like an old pair of glasses: Everything looked great before, but when you put on new glasses, you are amazed by what you were missing. Cameras, monitors, card readers and other “forgotten” devices often make their inadequacies clear when compared with a newer model.

Multimedia forensic is course is to provide law enforcement agents and corporate security personnel with systematic guidance that can help them understand some of the issues that arise when they seek electronic evidence in criminal and civil investigations. On the 10^th of December Worldwide Corporate Resources (WCR) Sdn Bhd is running a 5 days day training, that teachers participants how to able to respond to real live incidents and help determine whether the incident has actually occurred through: analyzing, collecting and preserving plus submitting the evidence, Best Practices for Forensics Investigation and Hands on experience on using tools in Digital Forensic Investigation. For further information please call 03-2615 4506 or 03-2282 3448

Banks have to be on the ball when it comes to protecting corporate networks and data, their clients and their clients’ personal information and assets. In addition, risk management and compliance must continuously be top of mind as they resound through and affect all aspects of banking security. How is the local banking fraternity treating these security threats? Are they allocating enough of their technology budget to put in place a more secure banking environment?

Centralising security at enterprise level

PLAYERS in the local banking and financial industry have yet to seriously invest in information security in a cohesive manner to ensure that their business is safeguarded against threats brought on by the convergence of information and communications technology.

According to Financial Insights’ senior research analyst Abhishek

Kumar, Malaysia, like many other countries in the Asia-Pacific, is not spending enough on IT security.

“Over the years, many Malaysian financial institutions have lacked a cohesive IT security strategy. As a result, many chief security officers have to manage multiple security applications, firewalls and monitoring systems across the numerous departments in their organisation. The simple task of updating, patching and maintaining these systems in order to ensure their effectiveness can be exhausting and very time- and resource-consuming.

“Expenditure at the moment is driven by new regulations on Internet banking security such as dual factor

authentication. Other than this, banks are investing in upgrading their network security and hiring know-ledgeable and competent IT security staff. IT security is too reactive and not proactive in that institutions wait for a breach or security incident to occur

before they invest the necessary funds.”

Kumar shared that in a Financial Insights IT security study carried out last year covering 19 major banks across seven countries in the Asia-

Pacific, it was found that Malaysian IT security expenditure (approximately five to six per cent of total IT spending) was almost half of the average IT security spending in the region (approximately 10 per cent of total IT spending).

In the study, chief security officers said they did not expect security budgets to significantly increase in the near future, citing difficulty in justifying security investments to the upper management.

“Malaysian banks should definitely focus on a centralised security infrastructure on an enterprise-wide level. Such an infrastructure will allow financial institutions to effectively and efficiently react to security incidents. Managing and maintaining security systems will also be significantly easier as a result. Now is a good time to consider such a change, especially since banks are making upgrades and changes to their core banking systems and other such major overhauls,” Kumar said.

Meanwhile, Frost & Sullivan’s Asia-Pacific smartcard and auto ID group industry manager Jafizwaty Ishahak said despite being among the first to migrate to chip-based/smartcards for all banking cards in Asia in 2004, thus reducing actual card present fraud rates in the country, Malaysia is still facing other threats from the back-end.

“Malaysian banking and financial institutions need to increase the level of security, both physical and logical security. Education and awareness, too, needs to be undertaken both internally and externally to the public. They need to be one step ahead of the fraudsters because the fraudsters are very innovative and aggressive.”

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Keeping security costs in check

LOCAL banking and financial institutions must balance the cost of security counter-measures against the cost of security in the organisation, said Deputy Finance Minister II Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin.

According to him, the impact of breaches is not only felt by banking and financial institutions, but also can result in a ripple effect that can lead to a systemic reach which can affect market confidence and the image of the country among the international community.

“Although technology revolution in financial services promises better decision-making, shorter cycle time and increased productivity and efficiency, it has at the same time created a new computing paradigm. In this new environment where there is a constant need to connect to the Internet, organisations are exposed to a whole new set of security threats either from the Internet or external to the organisation.”

While banking and financial institutions are facing other issues such as mergers, faster turnaround time of new products, increasing cost of doing business, lowering profit margins and global competition, senior management must not be distracted from the importance of implementing information security.

“The complexities of IT increase by the day and dramatically amplify the challenge to satisfactorily maintain an information security system. The cost is high, but the cost of breaches is also exorbitant that companies can be exposed not only to financial losses but also to compliance, legal and reputation breach,” Awang said.

Awang had earlier delivered a keynote address and officially opened the International Conference on Information Security Convergence in Banking and Financial Institutions, which was organised by Institut Sultan Iskandar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Worldwide Corporate Resources Sdn Bhd.

(Source: NST)