This course is an overview of Information Assurance designed to to help you navigate and interpret the many different reporting regimes that have been brought to bear on the public sector as a result of a disappointing roll call of data breaches during the past couple of years.

Local Government has already been busy achieving Code of Connection CoCo Compliance and it is important to re-harness these and other related efforts. This course will seek to help you to tackle the barriers to achieving best practice, providing strategies for putting the various pieces together.

Socitm Consulting and Socitm Learning have been actively participating in providing advice and guidance in this broad arena and this course will help to signpost the various agenda and put together the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that build to form Information Assurance in the round.

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To book a place on this course, please use our online booking facility or contact us on 0845 241 2773.

Course Content

• Background to Information Assurance
• Where Information Security fits in
• Links to the HMG Security Policy Framework and the implications for other paasrts of the public sector
• Update on Standards
• Embracing Data Handling Requirements
• Implementing the Mandatory Minimum Measures,including: Protective Marking, “Secure by Design”, Physical Security; Retention and Destruction.

Who Should Attend?

• Those involved in the implementation of Information Governance including senior managers
• Information Security Officers
• Implementation Leads
• Those responsible for security sensitive aspects of IT service delivery and strategy formulation

Tutor

The course will be led by Andrea Simmons, who has an outstanding record of consultancy in central and local government. Andrea is a highly experienced trainer and has been evangelising about information security and assurance delivery. Come and here a positive message!

Post-Event Activities

Delegates will be invited to join a discussion forum which gives access to a variety of implementation resources

SFIA/ Government IT Profession Skills

This course will help participants to develop the following skills:

• Corporate governance of IT GOVN
• Information management IRMG
• Information security SCTY
• Information assurance INAS
• Business risk management BURM

CPD Scheme Points

Those attendees participating in the Socitm Continuous Professional Development Scheme may claim 4.5 points.

This course relates to the Information Assurance element of the Council of the Future model.

Please note our booking conditions. Confirmation of your reservation and an invoice will be sent by email unless otherwise requested. Invoices should be paid within 10 days. Cancellations may be made without penalty up to 30 working days before the course start date, while half of the fee will be refunded for cancellations made up to 14 days before the start date. The full fee is payable for cancellations made within 14 days of the start date, however, substitute delegates are welcome at any time.