Date & Time: **NOTE SPECIAL TIME: MORNING BREAKFAST MEETING**
Thursday, November 6th, 2008, 8:00am - 10am

Meeting Location:
Marriott Oak Brook
1401 West 22nd Street
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
Hotel Link: https://www.marriott.com/hotels/fact-sheet/travel/chiob-chicago-marriott-oak-brook/

Schedule:
8:00am Continental Breakfast Served
8:30am Presentation by Jeff McIlrath

**Be sure to register today as seating is limited.**

Meeting Sign-up Link: http://www.issa-chicago.org/events

Presenter:
Jeff McIlrath
CIO Information Security, Senior Manager, Accenture

Topic: Making The Business Case For Identity Management: GRC, Data Protection And Employee Account Management
The choice to implement identity management technologies is typically driven by business forces that are not explicitly related to identity. Once that choice has been made the sheer quantity of vendors, products, solutions and options is nearly overwhelming. How do you separate implementation fact from vaporware fiction? This session begins your day with a look at the three most prominent drivers of identity management deployments, and how the "business case" can be made for executive buy-in.

Presenter BIO:
Jeff McIlrath is responsible for Accenture's internal information security organization. He is responsible for managing Accenture’s information security framework and supporting policies / standards, security awareness, security assessment, identity & access management and SAP security architecture. His recent accomplishments in the I&AM space include overseeing the deployment of user certificate provisioning, identity federation, application access provisioning, self-service password reset, self-service SecurID management, and reduced sign-on. In 2007, Computerworld named Accenture a finalist and second honoree winner in its Best Practices in Infrastructure Management Awards Program for their reduced sign-on implementation. McIlrath has been a speaker and panelist at a number of conferences including DIDW 2004-2006 and Gartner's I&AM Conference. Over his 16 years with Accenture, McIlrath has also contributed to the Accenture finance and Accenture internal audit organizations in various capacities and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Public Accountant.

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