Executive Update

Automation in Compliance Mapping and Assessments

Posted August 5, 2009 | Leadership |

Organizations increasingly rely on relationships with vendors, partners, and service providers to better manage their businesses. Lean economic times help accelerate the outsourcing trend, and the software as a service (SaaS) market is experiencing double-digit growth as businesses seek to avoid costly acquisition costs and financial commitments of supporting a full-system lifecycle. The rapid growth in SaaS, cloud computing, and offshoring continues to move information security risks from inside the enterprise to outside.

About The Author
Stephen McCalmont
Stephen A. McCalmont is Chairman and CEO of Avior Computing. Before Avior, Mr. McCalmont founded Altaworks and Net2Net (now merged with Visual Networks). Altaworks produced a system management application for IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic environments. Net2Net produced a network management system for Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks. Customers included AT&T, MCI, Sprint, HP, and Network General. With his previous two companies, he… Read More
Jeri Teller-Kanzler
Jeri Teller-Kanzler, CISM, is President and Principal Consultant for Risk-MAPP, LLC. She is also an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Before forming Risk-MAPP, Ms. Teller-Kanzler provided senior-level consulting services to Xerox, implementing an enterprise-wide risk management process and providing guidance in the development of a SOX compliance program. She is a former VP and regional CISO at Citigroup, where she was… Read More
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