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Introduction to ISO 27001    (Tuesday, May 04, 2010 )
This program shall serve as the inaugral session of the "Ernst & Young Knowledge Series 2010"  Read More
Members Meeting & Presentation    (Wednesday, April 07, 2010 )
Members Meeting & Technical Presentation on "IT Governance".   Read More
AGM & Chapter Election 2010    (Wednesday, February 17, 2010 )
Annual General Meeting and election to form chapter board for 2010  Read More
Open House Session    (Monday, February 01, 2010 )
Open House Session to present ISACA Certifications: CISA, CISM and CGEIT.   Read More
FUZZY LOGIC AND HIDDEN DUPLICATES    (Tuesday, December 15, 2009 )
"FUZZY LOGIC AND HIDDEN DUPLICATES" -Presented by Mr.Paul Picard, Paul Picard Consultants, Canada.
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"Data Loss Prevention Overview"    (Monday, December 07, 2009 )
"Data Loss Prevention Overview" Presented by Mr. Barry Seward & Mr. Chris Forgan  Read More
Felicitation Program    (Saturday, November 21, 2009 )
Felicitation Program for the passers, toppers and faculties of Dec 08 and Jun 2009 (CISA/CISM/CGEIT.   Read More
Today’s Reality: Living in Compromise to Advanced Threat    (Wednesday, November 11, 2009 )
Today’s Reality: Living in Compromise to Advanced Threat
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Web Application Security    (Monday, October 12, 2009 )
Web Application Security
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CPE Program - Expecting the Unexpected – The role of Next Gen IT Security Manager”    (Tuesday, September 08, 2009 )
Crystal Ball gazing on the role of the Next Generation IT Security Manager has happened in many forums. Each of these attempts has focused on emerging technological horizon and surmised that the Next Gen IT Security Manager should get ready for embracing those emerging technologies. There are quite a few factors beyond adoption of emerging ...  Read More
Open Session for Dec 2009 exam    (Wednesday, August 12, 2009 )
Open Session for CISA/CISM/CGEIT Dec 2009 exam


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CPE Program - "Detecting Fraud using Benford’s Law”    (Sunday, August 09, 2009 )
This session will be taken by Ms. Gretel de Paepe, CISA, ACL Certified Trainer.
Internal (IT) Audit has the responsibility to - identify the indicators that fraud may have
been committed, - be alert to opportunities that could allow fraud and - evaluate the
need for additional investigation, and notify the appropriate authorities. As per ...  Read More
CPE Program on "Global Trends in I.T Governance, Compliance and Audits"    (Monday, June 15, 2009 )
The title of the presentation is Global Trends in I.T Governance, Compliance and Audits.   Read More
CPE Program - E&Y Knowledge series    (Tuesday, May 26, 2009 )
A CPE program,
as part of E&Y Knowledge series.
The topic is "COBIT for developing IT processes and procedures"   Read More
Educational Seminar on (CPE) 18th May 2009    (Monday, May 18, 2009 )
Educational Seminar
on the topic "Demystifying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)" is scheduled to be on Monday, 18th May 2009 from 7:30PM to 9:30PM, at Oman Medical College, Lecture Hall (Next to CBFS, Bouwshar).   Read More
Education Seminar- E&Y Knowledge Series    (Wednesday, April 08, 2009 )
The Third-Party Hacker: The good, The bad and the ugly  Read More
Educational seminar - COBIT Series    (Tuesday, March 24, 2009 )
Educational seminar - COBIT Series:
COBIT as an Audit Tool  Read More
Open House Session -    (Tuesday, February 10, 2009 )
Open House Session  Read More
The Third session of COBIT Series, part of E&Y Knowledge series.    (Saturday, November 29, 2008 )
COBIT Components  Read More
COBIT Series session-2 (E&Y Knowledge series    (Monday, November 17, 2008 )
The second seesion of COBIT Series, part of E&Y Knowledge series  Read More
Felicitation program & COBIT Series Inaugural Session    (Wednesday, November 05, 2008 )
was held on 5th Nov 08, an event where toppers and successful candidates of the June 2008, CISA and CISM were felicitated. During this program, the faculty who worked hard in sharing their knowledge at the review classes were also felicitated.

We were privileged to have Mr. Ross Cormack, CEO of Nawras as our Chief Guest. He distributed the ...  Read More
CPE Program- E & Y Knowledge Series    (Sunday, October 26, 2008 )
CPE Program- E & Y Knowledge Series  Read More
CPE Program - E&Y Knowledge Series    (Tuesday, September 09, 2008 )
Audit on Implementation of IT systems in a banking environment  Read More
Quantitative Assessment of IT Controls - CPE Program in August    (Tuesday, August 26, 2008 )
As professionals who work in the area of IT Control assurance, we are often faced with the following questions when finalizing the response as part of the ECA process:

• When you say you are satisfied with controls, you making a position-in-time observation; so, how much can your assertion satisfy governance requirements along a long ...  Read More
Educational Semiar on Sunday, 17th August 2008    (Sunday, August 17, 2008 )
“UTILISING BALANCED SCORECARD FOR I.T STRATEGY” To be held on SUNDAY,17th AUGUST 2008 at 7.00 P.M.

Venue:
CBFS, Bausher Heights.

Speaker: ADVAIT KURLEKAR , CEO -K.P Consulting,Mumbai.


Chief Guest: FATHIYA NASSER JUMA AL-FARSI
DIRECTOR,INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UNIT,OMANTEL. ...  Read More
Open Session at CBFS for CISA & CISM Aspirants    (Tuesday, August 12, 2008 )
Program to explain the CISA and CISM Examination and Cetiication requirements  Read More
CPE meeting -IT Security -Business Perspective    (Monday, June 23, 2008 )
4i Model for Security Framework
o Elements of Information Security

o Standards &Practices

oIT Security Life Cycle
–Securing Information Assets
–Key elements of Information Security Practice
–Securing the complete Enterprise
–Implementing Service-driven Security Controls

o IT Infrastructure Security
–Security ...  Read More
Risk Based Auditing & OpRisk Compliance    (Tuesday, May 13, 2008 )
High-profile corporate failures having already led to the imposition of stricter standards by USA and other regulators in the western world, we now face an ongoing credit crunch that further threatens companies globally.

With many companies in the Gulf countries moving towards placing a public offering, it is in the best interest of the ...  Read More
Educational Seminar on    (Saturday, March 29, 2008 )
Four factors drive Data Leak Prevention (DLP) – laws, regulations, governance and deterrence. While date leak as a concept is not new, the ways in which it is understood and managed has continuously changed. The evolving DLP paradigms are being influenced by the need to comply with a plethora of laws and regulatory requirements as also the ...  Read More
Business Continuity Management Seminar    (Sunday, September 09, 2007 )
This seminar is part of Ernst & Young's Knowledge series for ISACA Muscat Chapter. The seminar will be followed by dinner.

The agenda of this seminar is as follows:
1. Introduction
2. What is Business Continuity Management
3. Why Business Continuity Management
4. An Approach for developing Business Continuity Management
5. ...  Read More
Audit in an ERP Environment (Special focus on SAP )    (Wednesday, August 29, 2007 )
The presentation will highlight the following areas:

• Elements of 3 major ERP systems – SAP / Oracle / BAAN
• Risks and Controls Issues of major ERP systems
• Control in ERP systems
• Auditing Techniques in ERP - Audit Scenarios in SAP  Read More
ISACA Felicitation Ceremony    (Tuesday, August 07, 2007 )
The ISACA Felcitation Ceremony will be held in honour of rank holders and candidates successful in the Dec 2006 CISA and CISM examinations.

There will also be a presentation on the benefits of
ISACA membership and CISA/CISM Certifications

Mr. Nani B Jhaveri, CEO of Bank Sohar has consented to be the Chief Guest for the event.  Read More
Data Warehousing    (Wednesday, April 25, 2007 )
The 6th educational program (of 2007) will cover the area of Data Warehousing. This will provide attendees with an interesting insight into this subject.  Read More
ACL - Full day Workshop    (Thursday, April 12, 2007 )
ACL Fullday Workshop  Read More
Maximizing the Audit Effectiveness using Audit Command Language Data Analysis    (Wednesday, April 11, 2007 )
The seminar will highlight the need for data analytics
It will highlight the major challenges such as:

• Data access to diverse data sources
• Large data volumes
• Complexity of IT infrastructure
• Data Integrity

The seminar will focus on how ACL technology can help face the above challenges.

There will be some ...  Read More
IT Security Audit- Emerging Trends Transcend Technology    (Wednesday, March 21, 2007 )
IT Security Audit  Read More
Measuring the Immeasurable: The Information Securi    (Saturday, February 24, 2007 )
An educational program highlighting the Information security return on investment will be presented by Mr. Ganapati Subramaniam. This event will provide a good insight for those looking to understand the benefits of implementing information security policies and procedures.

Please view the attachment below for more details.  Read More
Audit & Control Considerations in Electronic Comme    (Saturday, February 17, 2007 )
An educational program will be held about the audit & control considerations in electronic commerce. Please view the attached PDF file below, for a schedule of the program.

Highlights of the Presentation:

• Learn how the changing roles of this technology in an e-business environmentcan jeopardize the reliability of information both ...  Read More
A Technical Presentation on Legal Implications of    (Tuesday, February 06, 2007 )
A Technical Presentation will be made by Ms. Sangeetha Sridhar.

Highlights of the Presentation are:

• Commoditisation online
• Identity in the electronic world
• Jurisdictional challenges
• Validation of electronic contracts
• Authorisation through electronic signatures
• Copyright and anti-circumvention
• ...  Read More
Open Session -CISA/CISM certification & Felicitati    (Tuesday, January 23, 2007 )
of toppers and successful candidates of the June 2006 CISA/ CISM examination
Together with Voluntary Faculty Members
and
Formal Launch of Revamped Chapter Website
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“Crystal Reports as a CAAT Computer Assisted Audit    (Sunday, November 26, 2006 )
Highlights :
¨ Demo of Crystal Reports
¨ Advantages of Crystal
¨ Why Crystal when Oracle (ERP) Apps has powerful reporting tools
¨ Tips for Effective & Efficient Auditing
¨ Limitations / Concerns
¨ ERP standards
¨ Way forward
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Auditing E-banking    (Tuesday, November 07, 2006 )
This presentation will cover the development of e-banking, the technological development, security policies, message formats, softwares etc..  Read More
7th CPE Meeting on “Web application security asses    (Tuesday, October 10, 2006 )
The presentation would cover
Importance of web application security
Classes of security flaws
Audit / assessment approach adopted
Tools of trade
Case Study discussing a conducted assessment Pointers for further research / learning

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Digital Attendance    (Monday, August 21, 2006 )
Techno-legal issues in collecting and interpreting digital evidence  Read More
Overview of Audit Command Language (ACL)    (Tuesday, August 15, 2006 )
ACL Practical Demonstration  Read More
CISA/CISM Certification Open Session    (Wednesday, August 02, 2006 )
CISA/CISM Certification Programes and benefits of ISACA Membership  Read More
Continuous Monitoring    (Wednesday, July 26, 2006 )
Continuous Monitoring Framework, Benefits of Continuous Monitoring  Read More
Overview & Auditing of Operating System Security    (Wednesday, May 31, 2006 )
Windows Operating System Security  Read More
Felicitation Ceremony CISA & CISM    (Tuesday, April 25, 2006 )
Felicitation to the Toppers and Successful Candidates of Dec 2005 CISA & CISM Examination  Read More
Risk Based IT Audit    (Wednesday, March 22, 2006 )
By P K Ramanan  Read More
IS Audit - An Overview    (Wednesday, March 08, 2006 )
By Rama K Subramaniam  Read More
Open Session    (Wednesday, February 01, 2006 )
Open Session for CISA, CISM Certifications  Read More
Family Sunshine day    (Friday, January 20, 2006 )
Members get together with their family  Read More
 
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