Category: Archived Events


IS Auditing Seminar on 12th October by Mr. Sajid Khan

SZABIST ACM Chapter is organizing an Information System Auditing Seminar for computing students. The main theme for this seminar is to create awareness regarding IS Auditing and make participants aware of the potential job market in this field.

Information Systems Auditing deals with an examination of the system controls within an Information technology (IT) infrastructure of a company. This is the process of evaluating the suitability and validity of an organization’s information systems, practices and operations. Information System Auditing has been developed to allow an organization to achieve goals effectively and efficiently through assessing that computer systems safeguard assets and maintain data integrity.

The seminar will be conducted by Mr. Sajid Khan, Executive Director in the Information Technology Risk & Assurance within the Advisory Practice in Pakistan. He has experience of over 20 years in Information Technology including 15 years in IT Assurance/Security and 5 years in Systems Development and Analysis. He has worked at Silicon Valley, United states for 15 years. He will create general awareness about this emerging field and job opportunities available for upcoming graduates.

Following specific areas shall be covered in this session
 IS audit basics
 Types of IS audits
 Various standards and frameworks
 Skills and competence
 IS audit process
 IT risk assessment
 IT governance
 IT general controls
 Application Controls
 Data Analytics
 Question and answer session

Join us and get yourself aware of yet another field in computer science umbrella. The details of the event are mentioned as follows:

Date: 12th October 2010
Time: 5 pm till 7 pm
Venue: SZABIST 100 Clifton, Room: 202

Events in August

August will carry some new faces in SZABIST. ACM will welcome newly Zabbed and give them a chance to be a part of organization. Event will be from 2nd August to 7th August. After recruitment new members will be given an introduction of ACM and its members.

Gamer’s Edge III is also going to be held in the same month, probably in the last week. It will carry some new games with new players throughout SZABIST.

ACM at CIO Campus Conversation

CIO Pakistan was invited by IEEE SZABIST in campus, last Wednesday dated 30th June, 2010. Officials from different companies appeared at event and shared their experiences. They also encouraged younger generation for entrepreneurship and answered queries from students. Followed by a refreshment with roles and samosas at 100 campus’ garden.

ACM team attended this event. Governing body met with Miss Rabia Garib personally and conveyed her for future events at SZABIST in collaboration with ACM. We hope to see CIO doing such events regularly in SZABIST to improve vision of students.

Farewell to our ACM body of 2009-2010

ACM was present at Arena’s Rangoli for Farewell of ACM’s body of 2009-2010. It was full of fun event included some food followed by Bowling at Arena. Two teachers also joined students in fun.

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