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Overview. The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) was established in 1978 by the laws of Kenya under CAP 531 [2] to regulate the activities of all Certified Public Accountants by ensuring credibility, professionalism and accountability in the accounting profession in Kenya. ICPAK members are employed across all sectors on ...
Information security. Information security, sometimes shortened to infosec, [1] is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. [2][3] It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data or the unlawful use, disclosure ...
Information security management (ISM) defines and manages controls that an organization needs to implement to ensure that it is sensibly protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of assets from threats and vulnerabilities. The core of ISM includes information risk management, a process that involves the assessment of the risks ...
Security management at enterprise level. The target audience of the SM aspect will typically include: Heads of information security functions; Information security managers (or equivalent) IT auditors; The commitment provided by top management to promoting good information security practices across the enterprise, along with the allocation of ...
A chief information security officer (CISO) is a senior-level executive within an organization responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected. The CISO directs staff in identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining ...
The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA, 44 U.S.C. § 3541, et seq.) is a United States federal law enacted in 2002 as Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107–347 (text) (PDF), 116 Stat. 2899). The act recognized the importance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the ...
The office of the Federal Chief Information Security Officer of the United States (CISO) was created on September 8 2016. The role of the CISO is to guide cybersecurity policy, planning, and implementation in the U.S. Federal Government. [1] The first appointment to this position was Gregory Touhill, who stepped down in January 2017.
A chief security officer (CSO) is an organization's most senior executive accountable for the development and oversight of policies and programs intended for the mitigation and/or reduction of compliance, operational, strategic, financial and reputational security risk strategies relating to the protection of people, intellectual assets and tangible property.