Vice president of the International association ISACA since 2006, professor Georges Ataya proposed to renew his service for a fourth year. Serving at ISACA started in 1986, when Georges joined the newly created ISACA Benelux Chapter, founded by Fouad Monier and few other Belgian and Dutch professionals in Scheveningen, NL.

The 4000 members organisation became one of the largest IT professionals association worldwide with 90.000 worldwide members today. Belgian members were active in various Governance, security and IT Audit specialties. They participated in organising world reknown conferences and seminars and created major frameworks and references. 

Georges Ataya presided the Belux Chapter from 2003 to 2006, participated in leading the IT Governance institute and was involved in many researches and publications including Valit, Cobit 4.0, CobiT Quickstart and Cobit for Academia.

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management contributes in promoting Enterprise Governance of IT, Information Security and IT Audit through the organisation of Postgraduate education since 2003. It has recently been selected to develop the CGEIT Review Manual. Sushil Chatterji and Georges Ataya currently complete this manual based on the CGIET boot camp material they developed and on the IT Governance education created in 2005.

ISACA commissioned Sushil Chatterji to develop the CGEIT examination Manual.  This development will be based on the CGEIT Boot Camp already organised by Solvay Brussels School of Economics and management and will be performed in parallel to Mr. Chatterji’s involvement within IT Management Education in our university. The manual would be available for the second half of 2009.

IT Management Education at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Managementhas conducted four CGEIT courses in 2008. Next CGEIT course is planned for On 27th and 28th  May 2009 in Brussels. For more info: ict@solvay.edu/cgeit.

“Enterprises around the world need graduates who have proficiency in both business and information security, and this curriculum provides a thorough set of topics that should be included in an ideal program,” said George Ataya, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CISSP, international vice president of ISACA and academic director of the executive master in ICT audit and security at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and management, in Belgium. “The ISACA Model Curriculum provides an excellent educational framework for those interested in entering the information security management field or upgrading their skills.”

 More info on www.isaca.org.

On Friday 6th February, IT Management Education holds its Dissertation day.Participants of the Executive Master in IT Governance & the Executive Master in ICT Audit & Security will be presenting their thesis.

•        Date: Friday 6^th February 2009   [09:00-15:00] 

•         Location: Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management – Seminary Room [21 Av. F.D. Roosevelt – 1050 Brussels].

The oral presentations are open to the public. For more info or to register, contact Samir Al-Haddad (asamir@ulb.ac.be).

Actual participants of IT Management Education can download the Dissertation Guidelines for more information on the criteria of deliverables, the topic selection, etc.

From January 2009, IT Management Education at Solvay Brussels School-EM launches a new range of flexible learning paths in its world-class Information Technology management curriculum.

What changes?
Individuals and companies can now select a learning path to suit current business needs and availability as well as career aspirations, from in-depth Executive Master degrees and intensive Executive Programmes to subject matter Seminars, punctual professional Update sessions and tailor-made in-company training. Plus our new Education Coupons provide a one-stop-shop for IT Management knowledge building! Throughout the year you can select from over 100 specialised topics and build up your own continuous education programme.

Other things never change

… Like our commitment
Delivering outstanding education in our three domains of expertise: “IT Management and IT Governance”, “IT Audit, Assurance & Compliance” and “Information Security Management”.

… And our credentials
Internationally recognised leader in the field of management training affiliated with the IT Governance Institute (ITGI). Addressing major frameworks and standards (COBIT, ITIL, ISO27001, CMMI, PMBOK, etc.) and helping IT professionals to successfully qualify in internationally renowned certificates such as CISA, CISM, CISSP and CGEIT.

Download the brochure on our new website for a more in-depth look at our programme.

www.solvay.edu/it

“The CGEIT Bootcamp at the Solvay Business School was an outstanding experience. The faculty promised from the outset that it would be challenging to go through, a lot of hard work and the knowing what mandatory information for passing the exam is.

What they didn’t promise was that it would be full of first hand knowledge from recognised experts above all extremely relevant for participants’ professional life. The Bootcamp builds on your experience, no matter how extensive, and it builds on real cases from your own day-to-day working environment. During the program several interesting discussion added to the learning experience.”

Ron de Jong | ITSM Solution Architect - ITIL SM - Executive MBA in ICT Management | Consulting & Integration Switzerland | Hewlett-Packard (Suisse) Sarl

For the fourth time in 2008, and since the announcement of the creation of CGEIT by isaca (isaca.org/cgeit), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management runs a CGEIT boot camp. Job practices in their six domains are addressed by subject matter experts. This edition, produced in partnership with ISACA Belgium, is hosted by HP and runs in HP premises in Brussels. To join a future edition, send your inquiry to ict@solvay.edu or visit www.solvay.edu/cgeit.

The Solvay Brussels School has been created through the merger of the SBS and the Economics Department of the ULB.

The new SBS-EM has become an entity of 2700 bachelor’s and master’s students, of which more than 1700 are undergraduates, making it the largest s

chool of its type in the French Community. The School is proud to announce that it now has 51 full-time and 70 part-time professors, eight Competence Centres and three renowned research centres: the Emile Bernheim Centre, Ecares and the Dulbea.

Solvay Brussels School of Economics and management announced the Online Executive Master in Management, an ambitious Management education that groups the effort of three major Belgian universities.

When seventy percent of the education is held “Online”, participants acquire key skills necessary for a Business manager.

More info in relation to this French speaking education could be found on : www.campusvirtuel.be

I am delighted to inform you that our excellent speaker Claudio Balestra has edited a book on communication. Claudio confirms that SBS Students and Alumnis could get a copy for “student price”. Should you be interested, I invite you to go to the page and order the book by selecting the Student price.