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Technology risk: are your IT controls an asset or a liability?

IT controls protect critical areas such as intellectual property, customer data and employee privacy. They also ensure the business has the right balance of confidentiality, integrity and availability.

Executives need to understand IT risk along with the other risks facing the business, and be able to answer the following questions:

  • Where are your most significant IT risks?
  • Who is responsible for managing them — the CFO? IT? Internal audit?
  • How are you responding to these risks?

Moving beyond compliance

Organizations are moving beyond regulatory and corporate compliance to protect their brand and reputation. Ernst & Young's 2008 Global Information Security Survey looks at the current state of information security, and offers recommendations for creating an improvement agenda for the future.

IT Trends: Cost reduction through virtualization and cloud computing

In today’s turbulent environment, many organizations are looking for ways to drive costs out of the IT function, but others are looking for ways that technology can help rationalize costs across the enterprise. Virtualization and cloud computing (pdf, 443 kb) are two important IT cost-reduction opportunities that organizations should consider.

Technology risk:  are your IT controls an asset or a liability?

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