Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Torsten George of Agiliance On October 13, 2011 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance released a guidance document that outlines disclosure practices for public companies in light of the most recent spike in cyber security attacks and associated data breaches. The guidance document hints that companies have to be paying…
Editor’s Note: While Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, technology, operations, governance, risk and internal audit, the company also sells a comprehensive software platform that integrates content and commonly accepted and proprietary frameworks with consulting expertise to help companies manage and mitigate risk and compliance issues. by Scott…
Business teams find collaborative tools such as Microsoft’s SharePoint invaluable for tasks such as sharing documents and ideas, maintaining version control of work product, and creating everything from new products to document workflows. However, as we saw with the exponential growth of email in the early 2000s, in the absence of sound policies and controls…
For every IT organization, IT asset management (ITAM) is truly a “need to have” these days for reasons including compliance and cost containment. A fundamental part of ITAM is software asset management (SAM). SAM applies to everyone from your regional bank to a Fortune 500 global company. Every organization is using some type of software,…
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In a recent study on information governance, the Economist Intelligence Unit found that the single biggest worldwide challenge to successful adoption of information governance (IG) is the difficulty of identifying its benefits and costs. In other words, the difficulty of understanding and making the case for IG. Since I will be writing a series of…
Not so long ago, the IT world was only about the technology. But as more CIOs appeared on the scene, companies began to realize that IT had to be better managed and had to align more closely with business objectives. Thus IT governance gained ground. Now things are being elevated up another notch. IT governance…