- Events
CM reported that all was fine for November and Steve
Bailey was able to do his session. However, there was a problem with
the venue. JM pointed out it was too late to advertise now and
suggested we should advertise for, say, January and then seek a venue
if bookings were satisfactory.
AW would put together a pack of supporting
information and work out the costs.
JM was to try and re-arrange the speakers for
January.
NW is to send out publicity provided that
information is available from Steve Bailey.
It was agreed that, in future, chargeable events
would be put together a year in advance and that CM would work on
this.
KS was to contact Alison about the response to MIS.
NW was to distribute the questionnaire by Email and
all were to respond to it as soon as possible.
- Finance
AW presented the accounts for September. There were
accruals for ABM Amro and for the CISA review course. Mailshot was
expected to show a deficit. The overall outlook was that income was
fixed and costs were rising.
It was agreed that the donation to Rolling Meadows
for research could be approved as it would come out of reserves.
AW reported that the effect of putting up NW’s
rates by 50p per hour would cost the chapter an additional £780p.a
while a 5% rise would cost. £580.
It was agreed that the pay rise would be backdated
tom August 2001 and that KS would advise the rate.
- Academic Relations
JM reported he had made contacts with 4 universities
Royal Holloway, Greenwich, City and Portsmouth and that his contacts
were, respectively, Fred Piper, David Chadwick, Rob Melville and
George Allan. Of 98 Universities 60 were in the southern region. He
was offering to do presentations on ISACA.
- CISA
MC presented his report. It had been another
successful year for London Chapter CISA exam candidates. The
Highlights were:
London Centre 160 candidates sat the English
language version of exam, 125 passed which computes to a 78.1% pass
rate (previous year 77.1%). The global pass rate continues to decline
50% this year against 52% in 2000 and 54% in 1999. 1 candidate sat the
Korean language version (average group score 61) and 2 candidates sat
the Spanish version (average group score 72)
Of the 17 candidates who attended the CISA Review
Workshop he had been notified of 14 who have passed the exam. Of the
125 successful candidates 63 were not previously members of ISACA and
have been awarded complimentary membership.
CISA Candidates strengths were, IS Technical
Infrastructure and Operational Practices (average 85.46) IS Disaster
Recovery (average 82.90). Closely followed by IS Audit Process
(Average 81) and IS Management and Planning (averaged at 79.39).
Grouped on the rails were IS Technical Infrastructure, Protection of
Information Assets, Business application development etc. and Business
Process evaluation/Risk Management – all 77.n each.
World wide 8,210 candidates sat the exam (6,458 in
2000). London Centre candidates sitting the exam were up from 153 in
2000 to 163 in 2001.
MC noted that at the end of the report was a
"names only" list of CISA 2001 exam passes and that all the
lists received excluded individuals that request their exam results
not to be released.
MC was to forward a list of new members to the
Membership Officer.
The ITT for CISA Exam 2002 had gone out and one
response had been received. Plan b was to revert to the workshop as
last year. MC was congratulated on the good results of those
candidates who had attended this years, workshop.
All were to contact MC by email if they were able
and willing to lecture at the weekend workshop.
- Publication/Website
AL’s report was read. Work on Datawatch is in
hand.
AB presented a report on website advertisements and
noted that the pilot kicked off in Sept 2001 in response to an enquiry
from MRK Consulting. Following email exchanges and discussion of the
main issues, a decision was taken by the Publications Committee to go
ahead on a pilot basis - for ratification at the October Board
meeting. The site was now live. The Barclay Simpson relationship
turned out to be a non issue as BS was very interested to try this
channel and have 5 ads on the website. Rates had been set at £50 per
ad per quarter. AB was in negotiations with Howell-Chorley.
The proposal was ratified.
- Membership
KK was to write to the 63 people on the pass list
who were not member of the chapter. KK presented a proposal which he
had sent by email. To promote increased membership, it was agreed that
an existing member could bring in one guest free of charge for a three
month trial period.
The proposal was agreed.
It was agreed that to control the number of guests
the attendance list would be re-instituted at chapter meetings by CM.
- Research
The donation to Rolling Meadows was agreed.
- Standards
JW reported that no standards had been received from
ISACA for review but that he had received an invitation from Rolling
Meadows to work on certain standard area which he would accept.
JW also reported that he had received an invitation
to speak at a conference on Corporate Governance which he was unable
to accept.
JW was to pass the invitation on to other chapter
members.
- Any Other Business
Technical co-operation Group
KS was to attend the next meeting of this group.
NCC
Other chapters have proposed a reciprocal publicity
agreement with NCC. It was agreed that London Chapter would back this.
CPFA/IIA Joint event
ISACA will get a discount on attendance costs.
KS was to have a conference call to see if they
wanted an ISACA stand at this event.
Insurance
NY Chapter has thanked London Chapter for its
expressions of sympathy, and raised the question of whether London
Chapter needs insurance to cover its members’ liabilities.
JW to investigate insurance requirements.
Privacy Policy
We need to update our data protection registration.
Papers to be passed to JW.
COMPACS Stand
As part of our mutual publicity agreement we get to
put up our stand. However the chapter has not yet been contacted about
this.
MT to investigate the position.
If we have a stand we need to man it. The date of
the event is 17-18th October.
NW will send a message about this if required.
MIS Competition
It was agreed that there would be a full discussion
on the advisability of Chapter members participating in similar events
at the next meeting.
- Next Meeting
