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BCMA Belgium Ghent, the 1st of July 2008. BCMA Belgium is a joint-venture of Ascure and BCMA Netherlands. BCM Academy is a business continuity and crisis management institute targetting the Belgian market.
Furthermore BCM Academy provides in test and training programmes in order to examine the BC and Crisis Management system and an accredited programme to check the functioning of the BCM process. Extensive information on the field of study ‘Business Continuity & Crisis Management’ is to be found further on this site. For additional information visit our website (www.bcmacademy.be), you can always contact us (info@bcmacademy.be or 0032 (0)9 220 20 96) or the easy to use Business Continuity Management and Crisis Management Pocketbook can be ordered as a reference work. Ascure stops its corporation with winsec Ghent, the 22nd of May 2008. Ascure has decided to stop its corporation with winsec (windows security user-group) because of professional reasons. Happy business continuity in 2008! Ghent, the 21st of January 2008. A new year full of challenges. As the new CEO of Ascure I would like to thank you all for your confidence in Ascure during the last years. Thanks to you, Ascure was able to grow in a consistent and professional way. Today, Ascure has 24 professional consultants. All of them specialized in specific domains of Information Risk Management. Again, this growth was possible thanks to you. Ascure has shown that it has become a valuable player in this niche market. Our business and technology mix (we call it our Ying/Yang approach) in all our services is the main key to this success. Being able to perform these services on a strategic, tactical and operational level has been well appreciated by our customers. Our challenge for 2008 and beyond is to make this successful approach even better. In this Newsletter you can read already one of the first changes towards our new approach namely our move from Trust Services towards Assurance Services. Filip De Wolf becomes the new CEO of Ascure. Ghent, the 21st of December 2007 – ASCURE, announces that Filip De Wolf will become CEO from January the 1st of 2008. On this date he will be replacing the current CEO Dirk Bosmans. Dirk Bosmans was CEO of Ascure from the beginning of 2005 with a specific task. He had to organize and strategically reposition the company to create a foundation for further growth and initiate further growth. The success and progress in the growth of Ascure for the last 3 years has proven that this goal has been achieved. Under his management Ascure has become, in the Benelux market, a unique and valuable player in information risk management services, the perfect foundation for the future growth of the company. ‘Filip has proven that next to his knowledge and experience he also has the necessary business, vision and people management skills to execute this task to the best of his possibilities. I’m convinced that he will guide Ascure in their path to future success, ’ says Dirk Bosmans. Filip De Wolf also started at Ascure in 2005 as Principal Business Continuity Consultant and became in 2006 Director of the Strategic Services business unit. He has an extensive experience and knowledge of governance, disaster recovery, business continuity and crisis management. He has experience in several sectors in which Ascure is active, today, like banking, insurance, distribution, IT and telecom, air- and space travel, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, government, etc. Before Filip joined Ascure he worked for Aon, KPMG en Synstar. Since 2003 he is local chapter leader for the Benelux of the BCI (Business Continuity Institute) and in 2005 he received the title of ‘Fellow member’ of this institution. Recently he became internationally certified by the Institute of Risk Management. ‘That we are experiencing a very positive evolution, has been proven by the fact that we will close this year with 28 staff members, in January 2007 we were with 20,’ says Filip De Wolf. Ascure has 3 certified consultants of the Institute of Risk Management Gent, the 23rd of October 2007 – The Institute of Risk management provide high quality education and training in risk management at a range of levels, from Introductory to expert. IRM is risk management’s leading professional education and training body. Established as a not-for-profit organisation, the Institute is governed by practising risk professionals and has strong links to leading universities, business schools and professional organisations across the world. Recognising that risk management is a multi-disciplinary field, we also work closely with many other specialist institutes and associations and seek to represent an increasingly broad and diverse set of stakeholders. The worldwide membership of 2000 is drawn from industry commerce, consultancy and the public sector. Members have backgrounds in many different risk-related disciplines: accountants, project managers, insurers, chartered surveyors, health care professionals, lawyers, bankers, auditors, health and safety professionals and engineers are among those represented. The IRM Certificate is the result of extensive work with major employers of risk professionals and IRM's own membership, to identify and design an entry-level qualification that spans the wide range of areas today's risk professionals are involved with. The first intake of Certificate students took place in the autumn of 2005; almost 200 students enrolled for the June 2006 exams. Ascure has amongst its staff, as one of the first companies in the Benelux, 3 certified consultans.
Ascure Academy hosts SANS Audit 507 - Auditing Networks, Perimeters & Systems Gent, the 3rd of September 2007 – The Ascure Academy hosts the SANS Audit 507 course from the 3rd of March until the 22nd of May 2008. This course is the end product of over one hundred skilled system, network and security administrators working with one common goal: to improve the state of information security. Audit 507, like all SANS courses, is based on known and validated threats and vulnerabilities. These threats and vulnerabilities are explained based on validated information from real world situations that can be used to raise awareness within an organization and build an understanding of why auditing is important. From these threats and vulnerabilities, we build the countermeasures and defenses including instrumentation, metrics and auditing. The course begins with a high-level introduction on methods and audit programs. It then takes you through all the particulars of how to actually audit devices and IT systems that range from firewalls and routers all the way down to the underlying operating systems. You'll be able to use what you learn the day you get home. Five of the six days in the course will include hands-on exercises with the tools discussed during the lecture sections. Each student is invited to bring their own Windows 2000 or higher laptop for use during class. The hands-on exercises will allow you to experiment with the audit tools discussed in class and to actually perform audit functions against SANS-provided servers in class. A great audit is more than marks on a checklist; it is the understanding of the best practices, system analysis and forensics. Sign up for this course and experience the mix of theory, hands-on, and practical knowledge. More information and registration can be found here: click here. Ascure the BIG Move! Gent, the 29th of August 2007 – Ascure has its offices since 2000 in the Bijenstraat in St-Denijs Westrem and will from the 3th of September on move to bigger offices (of 400m2) in the same office building. Because of the spectacular growth of the last years, the need to move to a bigger location had become top priority. This year, already 8 new staff members joined the company and in the following months others will follow.
More information can be found here: full story. Ascure is proud to announce 3 new colleagues! Ascure is a young and dynamic company in search of new people to join our team. Therefore we are proud to announce that during the this year 6 new colleagues joined our team.
More information can be found here: full story. Ascure attains Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ascure Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning a Microsoft Competency in Security Solutions. |
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