Patrick O'Beirne's blogRisk Management, Data Quality, Testing, Spreadsheet check and controlPraxIS Nov. 2007- (Found July 8, 2008 ) www.sysmod.compraxisprax0711.htm 1) Risk & Security Standard of Good Practice for Information Security download Cyber Security Awareness Resource Center downloads Pirate copies of books Audit Technology Conference, London 20-21 Nov 2) Irish news Ireland Corporate Enforcer impatience with compliance ICS Security Professionals' Network Seminar, 5 Nov SoftTest Ireland Presentation by O2 and AGM, 8 Nov 3) Spreadsheets Excel User Conference Cambridge, Nov 29.http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/01#prax0711 ISSA Ireland Friday, May 23rd at 12:30- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The topic for Friday's meeting is "Meeting Compliance and Audit Requirements while Minimising Effort" and our 3 speakers are as follows: Sean Carey is Head of Internal Audit at Postbank, Ireland's newest bank recently launched by An Post and Fortis Bank. Sean has a keen interest in information security and on May 23rd will give an auditors perspective on information security, explaining how best to demonstrate compliance internally. Mike Harris is Director of Risk Advisory Services for Ernst..http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/22#issa0523 Praxis March 2008 newsletter- (Found July 8, 2008 ) http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0803.htm 1) Risk & Security 171,324 Irish blood donor records stolen Followup to l'affaire Kerviel 2) Quality Software & Systems Quality Conferences Dublin, 5th March 2008 SoftTest Ireland events April 1,2,3 3) Spreadsheets Jim Kaplan's AuditNet newsletter features spreadsheet tools OSU Spinoff RedRover launches its Excel audit product 4) Off Topic Interesting Photos of the day 13 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/22#prax0803 PraxIS Feb 2008- (Found July 8, 2008 ) http:www.sysmod.compraxisprax0802.htm 1) Risk & Security Societe Generale 2) Bank Direct Debit fraud Jeremy Clarkson's challenge taken up 3) Spreadsheets New certification on safe spreadsheeting being tested 4) Off Topic Schadenfreude 15 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/26#prax0802 Sep 27,2007: Excel 2007 float bug at 65535- (Found July 8, 2008 ) microsoft.public.excel is discussing this problem: multiply 850 by 77.1 and Excel displays the result to be 100000 David Gainer's Excel blog says: The Problem This issue was introduced when we were making changes to the Excel calculation logic in the Office 2007 time frame. Specifically, Excel incorrectly displays the result of a calculation in 12 very specific cases (outlined below). The key here is that the issue is actually not in the calculation itself (the result of the calculation...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/26#excel65535 25 Aug, 2007: BH200 Vista not working- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Dell Bluetooth headset woes I have a Inspiron E1405640M with Vista Business Dell Truemobile 355 Bluetooth + EDR Driver date 21062006 version 6.0.6000.16398 Bluetooth headset BH200 I've read various forums such as http:www.notebookforums.comthread178221.html http:forum.notebookreview.comshowthread.phpt=137370 and the Dell support troubleshooter: "Problems With the Dell BH200 Bluetooth 2.0 EDR Stereo Headset" I posted that method to the Dellcommunity.com forum but my question is: Why do I.http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/26#bh200-vista-not-working PraxIS June 2008- (Found July 8, 2008 ) 1) Risk & Security E-Voting Banned by Dutch Government Medical IT risks 2) Quality June SoftTest Ireland events 3) Spreadsheets Eusprig 2008 programme announced Another Excel problem solved ICAI Spreadsheet Risk briefing 4) Off Topic Quotes8 Web links in this newsletterhttp://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/06/04#prax0806 Eusprig 2008 Programme- (Found July 8, 2008 ) www.eusprig.org An Overview of Spreadsheet Analytics; Tom Grossman Automating Spreadsheet Discovery & Risk Assessment; E. Perry Controlling End User Computing Applications- a case study; Jamie Chambers End User Computing in AIB Capital Markets: A Management Summary; Andrew McGeady End-User Behaviour Analysis: Supporting Debugging Tool Design and Evaluation; Bishop, McDaid EuSpRIG and Education and Training; D. Chadwick Evaluation of an Intelligent Assistive Technology for Voice Navigation.http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/06/09#eusprig08 Spreadsheet Hell!- (Found July 8, 2008 ) A breakfast briefing for all Chartered Accountants and colleagues Date: Thursday, 26th June 2008. Time: Full Irish breakfast, 7.30am. Presentations 8am sharp, followed by Q&A. Ends 9.30 approx. Venue: Hilton Hotel, Charlemont Place, Dublin 2. Cost: 50 per person CPD: 1.5 hours The Chartered Accountants IT Services Committee is pleased to host this morning session. Regulatory pressure for compliance and risk management has created a dependence on spreadsheets which is increasingly seen as a...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/06/13#icaihell IIA Congress Social Networking Free Ticket Draw May 15- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Barry from IrishDev.com has a prize to give away! This Thursday, the Irish Internet Association have their annual one day congress in Croke Park. http:www.iia.ieeventsevent155iia-congress-2008 Entitled Beyond Websites: Business Uses of Social Networking and New Media, the event will explore of the explosion of social networking sites into our lives, and the impact it's had on business, successful integration of social networking into organisations' business models and why it takes its...http://www.sysmod.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2008/05/13#iiamay15 |