Monday morning, November 7th, 2006, George Toft (CISSP) presented on the subject of Compliance For System Administrators at the Phoenix SysAdmins Days event. George's presentation expressed the need for sysadmins to have an understanding of the requirements, areas of influence, and jurisdiction that make up various regulations and standards in place today to protect company and customer data.

Maintaining a secure data center can mean protecting the company or organization from legal and civil penalties, in addition to protecting from loss of personal information on customers, clients, and employees, and of course the loss of direct and indirect revenue. George used real life examples to show how loss of data has had its affect on companies in the Phoenix Metropolitan area, using both negative and positive examples of cases.