Todd Snover, Advisory Services Supervisor in the Business Process and Systems Group will be presenting at the ASQ-STL Fall Conference on Thursday, November 8, 2018 in UMSL's Millennium Student Center.
His presentation will show how including
business process tools in your Quality System will enhance consistency, reduce
cost, and promote a ‘process-focused’ culture that embraces continuous
improvement. Topics covered will include process classification frameworks,
BPMN process mapping, benchmarking, Theory of Constraints, and applications of
key Lean Six Sigma tools.
The 2018 Mid-Year Supplement Guides are now available. These guides provide
everything you need to know when beginning your software selection and
evaluation process.
Developed through a partnership
with Industrial Distribution, Industrial Supply, Contractor Supply
Magazine and Brown Smith Wallace Advisory Services, these 12-page
Supplement Guides provide valuable, independently researched
information, including:
• Detailed software company information
• Vertical markets identified
• Highlighted functions and technology features
• New developments to the software package
• Graphs of the user range
• Basic entry price point
• Sales channels (how and where the software is sold)
• Company contact information
Over the next 14 months, 80 percent of IT
budgets at organizations throughout the U.S. will go to cloud computing
services, according to a new global study from Intel Security. As
sensitive data is moved to the cloud, it is becoming more obvious that
the cloud still has its risks. According to the study, only 13 percent
of IT security professionals completely trust public cloud providers to
secure sensitive data, and 66 percent of them believe senior management
does not completely understand the risks of storing sensitive data in
the cloud.
When
assumptions are made about cloud security, some risks are overlooked.
Organizations need to be aware that encryption and redundancy are not
enabled by default in the cloud, and access to cloud resources still
needs to be managed.
The
biggest infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud is Amazon Web Services
(AWS), which hosts big hitters like Netflix, Expedia and Adobe. Other
players like Microsoft’s Azure and Rackspace are also great solutions
and are catching up, especially among small and medium-sized
organizations, but AWS’s documentation is easier to follow and better
organized.
Bill Gogel is an IT Audit Manager at Brown Smith Wallace, where he
is responsible for providing internal and IT audit and IT consulting
services to a range of industries, including technology,
telecommunications, manufacturing, health care, government and financial
services. He has experience providing ongoing PCI consulting and IT
auditing services.
