ISACA, a global nonprofit professional association, invites public comment on the exposure drafts of COBIT 5: The Framework and COBIT 5: Process Reference Guide. Both documents are now available at www.isaca.org/cobit5exposure and the exposure period will remain open through 31 July.

According to an announcement at ISACA’s recent World Congress in Washington DC, COBIT 5 will be a major evolution of the globally recognized COBIT guidance, incorporating the most up-to-date thinking in enterprise governance and management techniques. Enterprises of all sizes around the world have implemented COBIT to reduce IT-related risks and increase confidence in the information provided by IT, enable clear policy development and good practice for IT management, increase the value they attain from IT and manage compliance.

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Overcomes User Resistance to SharePoint Adoption; Advances the Social Enterprise  

London (UK) – June 29, 2011 – Social email software provider harmon.ie® today announced the UK launch of harmon.ie  for SharePoint,  the first platform to combine business collaboration tools and social enterprise networks into a sidebar within Microsoft® Outlook® or Lotus Notes®.  Designed to remove barriers to user adoption of Microsoft SharePoint® or Google Docs as well as to bring a critical social component to document creation, harmon.ie creates ‘social email’ by enabling users to collaborate with colleagues and external contacts without changing work habits or leaving the email interface where they spend much of their workday. Global enterprises such as ABB, Continental AG, and BearingPoint GmbH have adopted harmon.ie to drive collaboration initiatives, typically increasing end user SharePoint adoption from 30 percent to as high as 80 percent in a few months.

Read more: HARMON.IE LAUNCHES SOCIAL EMAIL IN THE UK,AGGREGATES ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION & SOCIAL TOOLS INTO...

 ANDOVER, Massachusetts, June 28, 2011 – Napatech, the world leading provider of intelligent adapters for network analysis, today announced the introduction of a new 4 port 10 GbE intelligent network adapter. The NT40E2-4 provides the same extensive feature set at double the port density of the NT20E2 (2 ports 10G).

 “Network traffic continues to grow as more applications are being supported by IP networks”, stated Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc. “There is therefore a need for network appliances with higher port densities as IP networks are extended to keep up with demand.”

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Rolling Meadows, IL, USA (27 June 2011)—Allan Boardman, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CA (SA), CISSP, information risk manager at JP Morgan (UK), was appointed director of ISACA—a global association serving 95,000 IT governance, assurance and security professionals in 160 countries—at its World Congress:  INSIGHTS 2011 conference in Washington DC, USA, today.

Founded in 1969, ISACA develops international standards for information systems auditing and control, provides education and training, and administers the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) designations. Additionally, ISACA developed and continually updates COBIT, the internationally accepted framework for governance of enterprise IT.

Read more: Allan Boardman, of London, Appointed Director of ISACA

 Berkshire 27th June 2011: UK IT Security Company, SecurEnvoy, today confirmed it had secured its 20th local authority, making it local government’s preferred supplier of two-factor tokenless authentication solutions.  Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is the latest edition to SecurEnvoy’s list of local authorities who have deployed SecurAccess for their 300 employees as a fail-safe way of securely connecting to their network.

 The strength of its product portfolio with its ability to help organisations deploy 2 factor tokenless authentication for up to 20,000 users in less than hour and the ability to respond to situations such as the RSA breach, Government’s Code of Connection, reduced budgets and soaring petrol prices have all helped to  ensure SecurEnvoy’s preferred supplier status.

Read more: SecurEnvoy secures 20% of all local authorities as security is stepped up in wake of RSA breach