• What are the controls that need to be put in place to proactively protect the company from the access levels and capabilities of bots – how do you securely develop bots?
• With the increased use of RPA, what is the impact on security and controls and what is the role of internal audit, security and controls professionals?
• When considering RPA auditing, testing strategies will need to be modified and the impact on the availability and collection of audit evidence will need to be considered.
• What skillsets will these changes require in our auditors so they can address these risks and build RPA routines of their own?
• How can auditors create their own RPA routines to execute more controls efficiently? We will explore some options and demo some existing uses of RPA to, for example. automate testing?
• What applications exist for use of RPA and in implementing security controls, for example IAM and analysis of logs for proactive correlation of events?
• Case studies and demos will be included to demonstrate the power of these new techniques.

Keynote Speakers

Marios Damianides, Partner, Northeast Region Cyber Security Leader, Ernst & Young (EY) Advisory

Marios is a partner in the Advisory practice of Ernst & Young (EY) and Northeast Cyber Security Leader. He has over 30 years of professional services experience leading global teams delivering security, business, and large scale IT transformation programs. He has assisted several fortune 500 clients in implementing agile security programs and architectures as well as broadening their protection and business improvement programs.

He specializes in the Media & Entertainment and Technology sectors. Has served clients such as Sony, Disney, Viacom, IPG, Omnicom, Honeywell, McGraw Hill, Canon, Siemens, Verizon, Wal-Mart and TI.

He is also Past Chair of the International Board of the ISACA and IT Governance Institute

He is a Board member and Executive Committee member of the Board at the Lighthouse Guide.

John is a leader in IT Services with 27 years of experience at EY across various roles from automation, innovation, strategy, engineering, and support.  He leads EY’s Global IT Operations organization for EY (over 2,200 people) responsible for production IT infrastructure and End User Support.

He is a Global Managing sponsor for the IT Global Operate Model Sourcing and Location strategy resulting in Global Shared Service Centers to optimize IT delivery.  He drives and leads the Global IT Operations organization comprised of IT Operations Automation and Optimization, Global Help Desk Services, On-Site Support Services, Perimeter Security Operations, Monitoring through Level 2 Infrastructure support, Data Center Infrastructure Management, Messaging & Collaboration platform support, Network Operations and Business Aligned Support teams.

Also, he co-led the Global End User Services Center of Excellence to achieve successes such as the Global Core Loadset by working together as a virtual team and overcame organizational barriers.  By leveraging my passion for customer service combined with 27+ years of experience in the “Think”, “Build” and “Operate” functions at EY.

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Pre-meeting Speaker

Brenda Williams, CEO, Coach & Speaker

Brenda Williams is the CEO and Founder of Academy For Leadership Communication. She is a well-respected, Board Certified Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, who has provided consulting and coaching for over 20 years.

Her focus is on leadership development and emotional intelligence, creating a Self-Mastery System that leads to progressive communication skills and extraordinary relationships. Brenda helps individuals and organizations make critical changes in their behavior, mindset and skills – leading to Laser Focused Results and Transformational Change.

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