Dorian Cougias will be presenting at the IT Compliance Institute's Washington D.C. conference in October on the topic of Unified Compliance. Here's the excerpt from the presentation:

ustaining consistent compliance results across diverse business units, regulatory efforts, and IT practice areas depends largely on your ability to standardize and align the IT policies and procedures that comprise your compliance program. This session will present concrete ways to assess, compare, and align major laws and IT standards with your own business structure and IT goals. Presented by the principle author of ITCi's Unified Compliance Project (UCP), this session will leverage the framework and exhaustive research that is the foundation of the UCP and propose ways you can participate in the UCP community.

You will learn

• How to decide which control objectives fit your organization and which don't
• How to align appropriate control objectives with your own organizational structure and functions
• How to use the Unified Compliance matrices to build structured, consistent, logical and well written policies and procedures around aligned controls
• Ways to participate in collaborative development of new compliance resources via the UCP

For more information about the conference, log on to the ITCi website.