CA Sri Lanka conducts seminar on IT GRC

A seminar series focusing on IT Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) concluded recently. A large number of professionals from the accounting and non-accounting spheres was present.

The series of five evening seminars featured six resource persons who spoke on several key areas related to IT GRC including security in a changing landscape, information security management, IT governance and strategy, business continuity management, IT general controls, application security and vulnerability management.

The resource persons included Secretary, ISC2 Chennai Chapter and Board member ISC2 Colombo Chapter and Director of Layers 7, Sujith Christy, ISC2 Sri Lanka President and head of information security and compliance at the Colombo Stock Exchange, Wasantha Perera, Manager, IT security technology advisory services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Sri Lanka, Janindu de Silva, ISACA Vice President and head of IT security and compliance and principal consultant at LOLC Technologies, Parakum Pathirana, KPMG, Manager, IT Advisory, Buddhika de Alwis and KPMG, Senior Manager, IT Advisory, Mahendiran Prashanthan.

The CA Sri Lanka IT Faculty which spearheaded the seminar series under the guidance of the IT Faculty Chair Channa Manoharan, has decided to conduct follow up sessions targeting specific industries in the near future.

Plans are also afoot to commence a certification program at CA Sri Lanka to provide professionals a recognised international qualification in the IT security field.

CA Sri Lanka President, Sujeewa Rajapakse said the institute was continuously making efforts to educate its stakeholders on various trends and issues facing all sectors including IT. "This is a new initiative to educate accounting professionals on the importance of IT GRC," Rajapakse said.