Securing a Holistic Outsourcing Strategy

February 10, 2010 | 12:00 PM EST

In this webcast, an expert panel will discuss the information security, governance, risk management and compliance concerns associated with IT infrastructure outsourcing, many of them unforeseen. They will also offer concrete suggestions for minimizing risk and security concerns based on their own experiences.

In today’s economic climate, companies are farming out more and more of their technology functions offshore to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Today, in fact, many companies and financial institutions are outsourcing their entire IT infrastructure at a rate that is growing at 60 percent annually.

Meanwhile, some outsourcing vendors are touting what they call a holistic approach to outsourcing, which links IT infrastructure and applications that work together in a comprehensive package.

Such an approach carries with it a separate and complex set of IT security, risk and governance concerns that must be viewed together.

In this webcast, an expert panel will discuss the information security, governance, risk management and compliance concerns associated with IT infrastructure outsourcing, many of them unforeseen. They will also offer concrete suggestions for minimizing risk and security concerns based on their own experiences.

Among the topics panelists will address:

• How to create a comprehensive security strategy that combats the unique set of threats associated with holistic outsourcing.
• How to minimize your legal liability when customer or business partner confidentiality or privacy is breached.
• How to ensure your records and data are safe if your vendor is potentially a target of a terrorist attack.
• Why you need to enforce security and risk measures and have a risk mitigation strategy in place before you sign an outsourcing contract.
• How to put effective controls, metrics and accountability in place to ensure the success of a holistic outsourcing approach.
• How to ensure your outsourcing model adheres to proven governance principles.

Panel Discussion Moderator -- Laton McCartney.

Panelists include:

Jerry Durant – Managing Director, Certellus Corporation

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