Transparent licensing is important for every organisation. This course combines software asset management (SAM) with IT service management best practices. This will help an organisation to implement software asset management lifecycle processes and showing how IT Service Management can support SAM lifecycle to create transparent licensing.

This two-day introductory course to SQL using SQL Server 2012 and MySQL 5.0 is aimed at those who are expected to develop and support the databases behind web services or internal business processes. At the end of the course, learners will have acquired the essential skills required to create and query databases.

Be confident that your organisation’s policies and procedures are legally compliant with data protection legislation by completing Ireland’s first certified data protection practitioner programme.

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

This one-day introductory-level programme will help you ensure your organisation is compliant with current legislation and identify the steps you need to take to prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Learn how to implement better business strategies for cost control, risk reduction and improved business value in the IT asset lifecycle with this comprehensive IT Asset Management certification.

Be confident that your organisation’s policies and procedures are legally compliant with data protection legislation by completing Ireland’s first certified data protection practitioner programme.

Iasa's Architect Core training provides an introduction to the tools, information, skills and terminology required to succeed as a professional architect.

This course is designed to give you and your team all of the tools you need to lift architecture from a ‘documentation’process to a true business capability. All IT architects will benefit from the concepts presented in this course.

Become an inspirational, influential and effective leader, and discover how to empower and motivate your team to achieve exceptional results. In addition, the powerful individual executive coaching sessions will help you to identify your key strengths and build on them, become aware of and improve developmental areas.

This one-day introductory-level programme will help you ensure your organisation is compliant with current legislation and identify the steps you need to take to prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Want to get started in the world of Blockchain development but don’t know where to start? This 2-day introductory workshop will give you the insight to get you thinking about what you need to develop a Blockchain strategy for your organisation.

A Solutions Architect is an expert in many categories. They should have hands-on experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines. They can master a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices. Akin to that, they should also possess skill and understanding of a variety of Operating Systems. A broad and deep understanding of...

Individuals have been conferred with specific rights under GDPR. Known as rights of the data subject, these rights include an individual’s ability to establish the existence of all personal information held about him or her by an organisation as well as the right to make a copy of such information available on request. This is known as a Subject Access Request (SAR) procedure. GDPR introduces new SAR requirements which can prove costly for organizations if ignored.

The world of information and communications technology is changing at an ever-greater pace, and the way Irish organisations consume technology has changed — as has the channel that serves them.

Part 1 – Apps and CALs – End User Processes.

In the first of a three part series of webinars, our speaker Andréa Perrot will pick out her favourite Microsoft licensing hot topics relating to end users/devices, provide an overview of the licensing rules and guide to some associated process areas. 

The Irish Computer Society is pleased to announce the Annual ICS Fellows' Luncheon on Friday,17th May 2019.

Transparent licensing is important for every organisation. This course combines software asset management (SAM) with IT service management best practices. This will help an organisation to implement software asset management lifecycle processes and showing how IT Service Management can support SAM lifecycle to create transparent licensing.

This two-day introductory course to SQL using SQL Server 2012 and MySQL 5.0 is aimed at those who are expected to develop and support the databases behind web services or internal business processes. At the end of the course, learners will have acquired the essential skills required to create and query databases.

Be confident that your organisation’s policies and procedures are legally compliant with data protection legislation by completing Ireland’s first certified data protection practitioner programme.

Audits are used to identify any issues of concern about the way the organisation deals with personal data and to recommend solutions. Under GDPR, organizations now have an obligation to audit their data processing activities. A data controller or processor’s ability to conduct its own data protection audit is an invaluable skill to have when ensuring compliance obligation under GDPR.

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

Data Protection by Design is an approach to system design which takes privacy into account throughout the whole service, product or systems design process. Protection of personal data should not be retrofitted or seen as an afterthought but instead be seen as integral to systems development. Before the first line of code is written, as a data controller you should ask the following question should be asked;

1. What does the use of personal data mean for the customer?

2. What  risks will the use of personal data pose to the fundamental rights of individuals?

3. Are the necessary technological measures in place to safeguard processing of personal data?

This one-day introductory-level programme will help you ensure your organisation is compliant with current legislation and identify the steps you need to take to prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Learn how to implement better business strategies for cost control, risk reduction and improved business value in the IT asset lifecycle with this comprehensive IT Asset Management certification.

Be confident that your organisation’s policies and procedures are legally compliant with data protection legislation by completing Ireland’s first certified data protection practitioner programme.

Iasa's Architect Core training provides an introduction to the tools, information, skills and terminology required to succeed as a professional architect.

This course is designed to give you and your team all of the tools you need to lift architecture from a ‘documentation’process to a true business capability. All IT architects will benefit from the concepts presented in this course.

Become an inspirational, influential and effective leader, and discover how to empower and motivate your team to achieve exceptional results. In addition, the powerful individual executive coaching sessions will help you to identify your key strengths and build on them, become aware of and improve developmental areas.

With the rapid growth in data storage solutions, many organisations no longer see data retention as a high-cost item. The temptation to retain all things data is so strong and with greater access to technology due to reduced costs, perpetual retention of both manual and electronic data may be perceived as convenient and not necessarily expedient as it involves “a lot work”. But with this comes increased exposure to the risk of data loss, unauthorised access, and ultimately, reputational damage. Retaining data indefinitely without a legal basis or justification can constitute an infringement under GDPR can attract fines.

This year's Dublin Tech Summit focuses on emerging technologies and takes an in-depth look into how technology is advancing and the ways in which this will affect society, culture and economies. 

The DTS19 speaker line-up boasts a range of the worlds thought leaders in areas such as emerging tech, leadership, space exploration and much more.

GDPR comes packaged with requirements that encourage accountability and governance for the protection of personal data for organizations involved in the processing of such. Accountability is now an important and explicit requirement under GDPR. Simply put, accountability requires that organisations process personal data lawfully and accurately in a transparent manner. There must be one or more legitimate reasons why personal data is effectively processed and where appropriate, minimally retained.

GDPR comes packaged with requirements that encourage accountability and governance for the protection of personal data for organizations involved in the processing of such. Accountability is now an important and explicit requirement under GDPR. Simply put, accountability requires that organisations process personal data lawfully and accurately in a transparent manner. There must be one or more legitimate reasons why personal data is effectively processed and where appropriate, minimally retained.

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

An ICS Skills exam session offers candidates the opportunity to sit an online exam from the following list:

• ECDL Core Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013)
• ECDL Advanced Level modules (available in Office 2007, 2010 and 2013...

This one-day introductory-level programme will help you ensure your organisation is compliant with current legislation and identify the steps you need to take to prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Want to get started in the world of Blockchain development but don’t know where to start? This 2-day introductory workshop will give you the insight to get you thinking about what you need to develop a Blockchain strategy for your organisation.

A Solutions Architect is an expert in many categories. They should have hands-on experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines. They can master a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices. Akin to that, they should also possess skill and understanding of a variety of Operating Systems. A broad and deep understanding of...

Gain valuable insight into the EU General Data Protection Regulations from multiple perspectives with our comprehensive Advanced Data Protection suite leading to full certification through the ICS European Certified Data Protection Officer Programme (ECDPO).

Prepare your organisation for the changes under the new EU General Data Protection Regulation with this advanced data protection training course. Learn how to facilitate, accommodate and implement the new requirements before their enforcement in 2018.

Individuals have been conferred with specific rights under GDPR. Known as rights of the data subject, these rights include an individual’s ability to establish the existence of all personal information held about him or her by an organisation as well as the right to make a copy of such information available on request. This is known as a Subject Access Request (SAR) procedure. GDPR introduces new SAR requirements which can prove costly for organizations if ignored.

GDPR comes with a requirement for organizations to take a risk based approach when processing personal data. This is particularly relevant where data processing can pose a high risk to the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals. A risk based approach is defined as a process that facilitates the identification of privacy related risks and subsequently allows for development of strategies to mitigate the impact of such risks.

Data Breaches are an increasingly common occurrence in today’s technologically driven world. News of enterprise level data breaches continues to grace news headlines daily. GDPR imposes notification obligation on organizations, failure of which can incur sanctions as well as effective, proportionate and dissuasive fines. An organization may get over and eventually forget a data breach occurrence, those who have been affected by the breach do not.

Transparent licensing is important for every organisation. This course combines software asset management (SAM) with IT service management best practices. This will help an organisation to implement software asset management lifecycle processes and showing how IT Service Management can support SAM lifecycle to create transparent licensing.

Audits are used to identify any issues of concern about the way the organisation deals with personal data and to recommend solutions. Under GDPR, organizations now have an obligation to audit their data processing activities. A data controller or processor’s ability to conduct its own data protection audit is an invaluable skill to have when ensuring compliance obligation under GDPR.

Data Protection by Design is an approach to system design which takes privacy into account throughout the whole service, product or systems design process. Protection of personal data should not be retrofitted or seen as an afterthought but instead be seen as integral to systems development. Before the first line of code is written, as a data controller you should ask the following question should be asked;

1. What does the use of personal data mean for the customer?

2. What  risks will the use of personal data pose to the fundamental rights of individuals?

3. Are the necessary technological measures in place to safeguard processing of personal data?

With the rapid growth in data storage solutions, many organisations no longer see data retention as a high-cost item. The temptation to retain all things data is so strong and with greater access to technology due to reduced costs, perpetual retention of both manual and electronic data may be perceived as convenient and not necessarily expedient as it involves “a lot work”. But with this comes increased exposure to the risk of data loss, unauthorised access, and ultimately, reputational damage. Retaining data indefinitely without a legal basis or justification can constitute an infringement under GDPR can attract fines.

GDPR comes packaged with requirements that encourage accountability and governance for the protection of personal data for organizations involved in the processing of such. Accountability is now an important and explicit requirement under GDPR. Simply put, accountability requires that organisations process personal data lawfully and accurately in a transparent manner. There must be one or more legitimate reasons why personal data is effectively processed and where appropriate, minimally retained.