The North America CACS 2019 Conference, an ISACA event, is the premier conference for audit/assurance, COBIT, compliance, risk, security and strategy/governance professionals with over 1,500 individuals expected to attend. The conference offers hundreds of sessions, workshops and speakers to help attendees keep pace with the rapid change in the IT audit, assurance, control, governance and security space.

WHAT:

Dr. Gupta will present “Chasing the Privacy Risk Monster Within Your Organization” as part of the conference’s track 5 addressing IT Governance, Compliance & COBIT.

The premise of Dr. Gupta’s presentation is that an effective privacy risk assessment (PRA) methodology can help organizations that handle personally identifiable information identify the greatest privacy risks and ways to mitigate them. She will propose a two-level approach. The first, organizational-level PRA, focuses on NIST SP 800-53 Rev4 Appendix J privacy controls. The second, a system-level PRA for each information system,addresses system-level privacy controls and the Privacy Impact Assessment for each system. At each level, the goal is to apply a SP 800-30 Rev1 style risk assessment approach by identifying applicable threats, gaps/weaknesses (vulnerabilities), likelihoods of occurrence and impacts.

Attendees can expect to come away from the session with an understanding of the criticality of performing risk assessments and insights on how to conduct privacy risk assessments at the organizational level; perform privacy risk assessments at the information system level; and mitigate privacy risks within their organization through more effective and timely risk identification.

WHO:

Sarbari Gupta, PhD, CISSP, CISA, is the Founder, President and CEO of Electrosoft Services, Inc., an information technology services company that solves complex government information technology challenges, especially those related to IT security and information assurance. Across a career spanning more than 25 years, Dr. Gupta has acquired a broad base of knowledge and experience in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy and cryptographic solutions. She’s a prolific author and speaker with many technical papers, articles, presentations and book chapters to her credit as well as four cryptography-related patents. Notably, she has co-authored several NIST Special Publications addressing electronic authentication, security configuration management and mobile credentials.

Dr. Gupta holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and a B.Tech. in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She’s been recognized as an Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center, aTop Minority Business Leader by the Washington Business Journal, a Stellar Woman Contractor by U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce and a GovCon Executive of the Year finalist by the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Electrosoft was recently ranked among the Top 25 Largest Cybersecurity Companies in the Greater D.C.region.

WHEN:

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. PT

WHERE:

Anaheim Convention Center

800 W Katella Ave.

Anaheim, CA 92802

FOR MEDIA INFORMATION:

Please contact Jeanne Zepp. She can be reached by email at jeanne@verasolve.com and will be happy to arrange pre- and post-event interviews with Dr. Gupta.

FOR ATTENDEES:

Individuals interested in attending the North America CACS 2019 Conference should register here.

ABOUT ELECTROSOFT:

Electrosoft, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, delivers a diversified set of technology-based solutions and services to federal civilian and defense agencies. We couple domain knowledge and experience with proven, mature management practices to design and deliver the right solutions on time and within budget. Our practices include an ISO 9001:2015 registered Quality Management System and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3 assessed processes. Founded in 2001, Electrosoft is an 8(a) certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) and an 8(m) certified Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB). For more information about Electrosoft, visit our website at www.electrosoft-inc.com.