Preston Williams III is Senior Partner & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at GBC® Global Services. He is a pioneer & futurist with 20+ years of Big 4, Fortune 500, Global 100 and entrepreneurial experience. That experience includes Senior Auditor with Price Waterhouse (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Controller for Lynn-Phill, IT Consultant with McGladrey & Pullen and Andersen Consulting (Accenture) as well as Project Executive at IBM Global Services. Mr. Williams also worked as the first Product Manager for Global Data Collection with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and the first Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Langston University.
From 2002 to 2004, Preston Williams served as the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Partner at GBC®. Incorporated in Delaware, USA; the firm operates in Kenya, Liberia, Uganda and the United States.
Preston has successfully implemented sound, reliable, dynamic, scalable and robust IT systems integration and financial management solutions in North America, Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LATAM), Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Mr. Williams is former Technology Committee Chairman of the Oklahoma State Council on Information Technology (CoIT) and a former member of the Innovative Technology Advisory Council of Oklahoma (InnoTech). He is a member of the American Business Network (ABN), the EDUCAUSE CIO Constituent Group, the Carolina Information Technology Professionals Group (CITPG) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Enterprise Forum of Cambridge. He is also a member of the International Entrepreneurs Club, the International Technology Channels Association (ITCA), Tech Republic and the Global CIO Think Tank.
Preston Williams III is Chairman of the GBC® Board of Directors, a recipient of the IBM® Global Services Leadership Award and a member of the Internet Evolution Executive Clan.
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Article: Is There Auditable Security in the Cloud? |
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February 18 2011 - SCRIBD.COM
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I recently watched the CSPAN coverage of Cloud Computing in political campaigns held at the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. Participants shared their views about cloud computing in campaigns, but the issue of“Auditing through the Cloud” appeared problematic. I put on my “Auditor” hat and began to question a number of issues related to the performance of a reliable audit in a Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud environment.
An extensive discussion about various platforms, architectures and application layers as well as corporate protocols and policies provide a lot of food for thought as we consider how, when and if we should deploy a Public or Private Cloud in our enterprise.
The ability to establish standards for auditing through the cloud is captured in ISO/IEC27001 “Information Security Management which replaces BS7799-2. The standardapplies Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) principlesgoverning security of information and network systems to the process of developing“Best Practices” which will ensure that providers and customers are satisfied with thelevel of transparency, security and verifiability of both the process and the results of anaudit review. The standard is intended to provide a foundation for third party audits.
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