AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Austin-based start-up Wisegate, today announced the addition of a new Privacy and Compliance micro-community for senior-level professionals. Wisegate’s new micro-community complements an existing line up of invitation-only information security related micro-communities which enable members to collaborate with peers and have candid conversations about industry challenges, technology trends and work-related experiences – free from vendors and advertising. Wisegate’s newest micro-community aims to make members’ job easier by providing convenient access to a senior group of peers who daily help each other successfully address the complex legal, regulatory and security issues they face.
"As senior privacy professionals, our companies count on us to navigate the complex web of regulations, cross-border data privacy requirements and evolving compliance risks, like the use of social networks in the workplace,” said Hope Scott, Global Chief Privacy Officer, CIGNA Corporation. “Through Wisegate’s new micro-community, we can discuss compliance strategies, share privacy program best practices and keep track of industry trends."
Members of Wisegate’s new Privacy and Compliance micro-community are coming together and tackling the industry’s most pressing and challenging issues, including how to:
- Keep up with the onslaught of changing government and industry specific compliance requirements
- Assess the impact of new legislation or changes to legal precedent and decide what to do about them (like, the Dodd-Frank Act, European Cookie Directive and Facebook FTC Privacy Rulings)
- Interpret compliance requirements and apply appropriate risk controls in emerging areas, like cloud computing, social networking and bring your own device (BYOD)
- Overcome internal bureaucracy and drive consensus among cross-functional constituencies (legal, IT, HR, finance and business) as necessary to ensure broad adoption of compliance programs
Wisegate applies the latest social networking technology to old school collaboration between trusted peers to help members quickly and decisively address even the most perplexing privacy and compliance issues. The new micro-community brings together the best brains in privacy and infosecurity – by providing convenient methods for connecting and collaborating with peers through interactive online discussions, community polls and offline events.
“Wisegate’s new Privacy and Compliance community is the ‘always on’ resource that enables me to tap the collective wisdom of my peers who can share insights on the most pressing issues I need to address in my role,” said Kristen Knight, Senior Privacy Officer for Phillips Electronics North America. “For example it was the practical advice I received from the Wisegate community that recently helped me evaluate the many challenges and shape my approach to a Data Loss Prevention program for my company.”
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“Privacy and compliance professionals are constantly bombarded with new challenges and job-related headaches – like constantly changing privacy compliance requirements and what to do about them,” said Sara Gates, CEO and Founder of Wisegate. “It is Wisegate’s mission to help make our members’ job easier by quickly connecting them with other subject matter experts to deliver unmatched access to practical information and meaningful conversations.”
Coined the anti-social social network, where high value collaboration is the norm and no vendors are allowed, Wisegate is the first highly vetted community that helps senior IT and privacy professionals securely and freely exchange knowledge. Qualified professionals can find out more about Wisegate and request an invitation at http://www.wisegateit.com/request-invite/.
About Wisegate
Wisegate (wisegateit.com) is a social knowledge network for senior professionals. By enforcing strict membership guidelines and barring vendor ads and sales hype, Wisegate is the first and only private professional online community to foster high-value collaboration, conversation and content-sharing by a network of one’s true peers. Wisegate’s first community is for senior Information Technology (IT) professionals, with others rolling out according to market demand. Wisegate Inc., a privately funded company with headquarters in Austin, Texas, was founded in 2010 by Sara Gates, a respected industry veteran of several start-ups and large enterprise IT companies.
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