Knowledge Cafe on the proposed Personal Information Protection Act and impact on CRM (Jhb)

Posted on May 27, 2010

CRM SIG EVENT

Date: Tuesday 8 June 2010, SAP Woodmead Offices (9am – 1:30pm)

We expect the Personal Information Protection Bill enacted later this year. The purpose of this act is to define personal information, align with international laws on data protection and regulate the use of personal information. Imagine the end of cold calling. Imagine knowing your rights when your information is misused.

The Bill introduces the new office of the Information Protection Regulator and in your organisation the Information Protection Officer. Do you know what the impact of this Bill will be on CRM in your organisation? Have you done an assessment to identify the personal information stored and processed? Are you ready for information with purpose and consent?

We have the privilege of Grant Brewer’s (E&Y Advisory Services) company to unpack the Bill and provide insights in what will be expected of CRM in our organisations.

Please join us in the CRM Knowledge Café in Woodmead for a conversation on the proposed Bill and CRM.

TIME     Conversation Menu
09h00 – 09h30     Registration & Refreshments
Starter
09h30 – 10h00     Privacy Matters, Grant Brewer – Head of Strategy and IT Advisory Services – Ernst & Young
10h00 – 10h10     In the Knowledge Café, Manti Grobler – SAP CRM Solution Manager
10h10 – 10h30     Conversation on Privacy Matters
10h30 – 11h00     Feedback
11h00 – 11h20     Break
Main
11h20 – 11h50     The 8 Core Information Protection Principles and you, Grant Brewer – Ernst & Young
11h50 – 12h15     Conversation on CRM and these Principles
12h15 – 12h45     Feedback
Dessert
12h45 – 13h15     Act Readiness, Grant Brewer – Ernst & Young
13h15 – 13h30     SIG & Saphila discussion, Warren Hero – CRM Chairman
13h30     Lunch

To Register Click Here

Should you have any problems registering for this event, please forward all details to juanita.schirmer@sap.com. The invite is also posted on the website.

Information security and its impact upon society (Jhb)

Posted on May 27, 2010

by Prof. Vijay K. Bhargava, FRSC, FIEEE

DATE: Monday 7 June, 2010

TIME: 10h00 for 10h30 to 12h00, after which lunch will be served

VENUE: The Kerzner Building, Conference Room 1, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus (click here for a map and directions)

COST: No cost, free-of-charge

There is no point in having information unless it can be communicated from one point to another point (telecommunications) or from one time to another time (storage). In both cases, protecting information from unauthorized access, modification and disruption is critical. Cryptography is a key technology in protecting information. It was traditionally concerned with maintaining confidentiality. Recently, there has been a dramatic growth in the applications of cryptography in other areas such as commerce.

Modern cryptography can be divided into symmetric-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In this talk, some of the current symmetric-key and public-key cryptographic techniques used in achieving information security are outlined. These include the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) which is the symmetric-key encryption standard adapted by the US government, and two well-known public-key cryptosystems, namely RSA (the initials of its inventors) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).

The impact of information security upon society is then outlined. In particular, we focus on the usage of information security in Internet filtering. The Internet filtering can take place in different levels: local, organizational or national. In all these levels, the objective of filtering is to prevent or limit access to information/content that is against national/cultural values or is considered harmful for the users whether they are children or adults. Some of the current filtering techniques are outlined, as well as some of the circumventing methods to bypass it.

For catering purposes it is essential to register by latest 3 June 2010. For further information and regstration, please contact:

Monya Badenhorst, University of Johannesburg

Tel: 011 559-4743, Cell: 083 770 5902, Email: monyab@uj.ac.za

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