MEETING INTRODUCTION
Recent industry regulations, and state and federal laws, have placed an increased burden on Computer Professionals (including CTOs/CTOs, Managers, Administrators, Developers) in regard to the topics of Regulatory Compliance, Corporate Governance and Disclosure, SOX/Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, Data Privacy and Computing Security.
Some of the industries which are effected are: Securities, Hedge Funds, Accounting, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Public Companies.
At Unigroup's September 2005 meeting, we will discuss these topics, and how they effect our industry and the Computing Professionals who are now required to implement and comply with a broad range of new legal and industry requirements.
Computing Professionals could now be held liable for non-compliance (this was discussed in the trade magazines a few months ago), so it has become very important get up-to-speed on the various issues and related pitfalls concerning compliance.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: --------------------- While RSVPs will NOT be required for this location, please RSVP if you know you are attending, or if there is a high probability that you will be attending. This will help us determine the correct amount of food and refreshments. Please RSVP by two days prior to the meeting day (the food must be ordered in advance). To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup Registration Page. This will allow us to have some automation in the registration process. Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and THIS page, for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you registered for this meeting, please check your email for any last minute announcements as the meeting approaches.
DIRECTIONS
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility 104 Washington Street Wall Street Area Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street. Cross Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown, North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel, North of the Resturant, East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TOPIC: COMPUTING COMPLIANCE with UNIX/LINUX
Web Resources Compliance Information: Athena Archiver - Compliance Laws - Overview ZipLip - Compliance Information searchCIO.com - Fast Guide to Regulatory Compliance
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
See http://athenaarchiver.com for further information.
(Athena Archiver's products are linux-based.)
GIVEAWAYS
O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available through their User Group program. We will be announcing the details at our next meeting!
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway (ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!
We also still have some Sun Solaris 10 DVDs from our friends at the NYC Sun Office.
FEE SCHEDULE
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
* Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00
Cash, Check, American Express.
FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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