Our June 5^th meeting will feature a presentation by Detective Linda Gaddis of the Newport News Police Department.  Detective Gaddis will speak on Identification Theft and White Collar Crime.  Her talk will address current scams and specifically the various ways that criminals try to defraud people. This will include examples of e-mails victims have received from these individuals and letters where they contact their victims through the postal service.

Detective Gaddis has been with Newport News Police for fifteen years and is a Master Police Detective assigned to the Economic Crimes Unit. She has served in Uniform Patrol, General assignment Investigations (Property crimes) and Major Crimes in Special Victims and Homicide and has been in Economic Crimes for three years.

Please plan on joining us and please bring a friend.  

Lee's presentation was "The Dilon 6800: Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship". He spoke about the product, its market and how it evolved from a research study at a national laboratory to a commercial product.  Lee Fairchild is currently Vice President of Engineering at Dilon Technologies. He was involved in the company's founding, early fundraising and the development of the company's product - the Dilon 6800 gamma camera, primarily used for breast cancer detection. In the ten years since its founding, Mr. Fairchild has held positions in both marketing and engineering management. Prior to joining Dilon, he held product management positions at Lucas Industries, Honeywell and Square D Company. He holds a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and a masters in business from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

An increase in cost for Guest dinners will be determined at a later date.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is an industry-leading set of IT Service Management best practices. These best practices for the support and delivery of IT services can help a company document IT processes.

ITIL is part of the foundation of the COBIT model, which defines control objectives for IT in support of business processes.

ITIL is about providing guidelines as to what should be done and steps to trying to get best practices in place and COBIT is more about "proving and establishing a set of objectives to show control. It's more of an audit and measurement tool to determine if things were done right.

The ITIL process documentation and COBIT control objectives are a powerful combination that can accelerate Sarbanes Oxley and BASEL II compliance as well.

ITIL is strong on delivery and support processes. It describes how to structure operational processes but is weak on security controls and processes.

COBIT is focused on controls and metrics. It also lacks a security component but provides a more global view of IT processes at the IT organization management principles than ITIL.

COBIT and ISO also provide guidance, key indicators, and controls for the definition of service-level agreements, capacity planning, availability management, and business continuity, which complement ITIL service delivery processes.

IT organizations are under more pressure to meet the business goals. ITIL and COBIT can enable organizations:

1.Manage IT from a business perspective and achieve business goals. 2.Put in place clear process goals, based on the organization's business goals 3.Ensure effective IT governance and control at the process level, and enable IT to demonstrate that it meets or exceeds the requirements.

COBIT processes are focused on business requirements, and provide guidance in determining what is sufficient to meet these requirements. ITIL defines best practice processes for ITSM and shows how to get there. It focuses on method and defines a more comprehensive set of processes than COBIT, providing a roadmap for building processes. With the combination of ITIL and COBIT, IT can meet business objectives and thus delivering higher quality business services at lower costs.