The IT Compliance Role in Safeguarding the Enterprise from Post-COVID Symptoms

In recent years, much attention has been paid to the technology that prevents malware and malicious attackers from wreaking havoc in enterprise systems, especially during the COVID era. Multi-factor authentication? Check. Robust access control? Check. Intelligent firewalls? Check. Still, a lot of IT enterprise leaders overlook the importance of the IT compliance function in identifying COVID symptoms, especially the “people” aspect of the information technology triad of people-process-technology. In this presentation, Ralph Villanueva will speak about the vital role IT compliance plays in securing the enterprise by identifying these post COVID symptoms, and what enterprise IT leaders can do to harness their valuable expertise and unique role in the organization. About the speaker: Ralph has been keeping his employers compliant with IT and cybersecurity requirements across numerous and diverse regulations such as the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Payment Card Industry, COSO-Integrated Framework, COBIT and ISO 27001 since 2007, and data privacy since 2017. His more than two decades of internal and IT audit and compliance work in the US and the Asia Pacific region provide him with insights not only in enforcing IT and cybersecurity requirements in light of changing regulatory and technical environments, but also in anticipating and dealing with future. Ralph has also earned numerous certifications such as the ISO 27001LA and ISO 27701LA, CISA and CISM, PCI-ISA and PCIP, CIA and CRMA, CFE, CPA and ITIL. Since 2010, Ralph has regularly spoken at over 40 conferences.