Boards and executive management have long known the need for enterprise and corporate governance. However, most are beginning to realize that there is a need to extend governance to information technology as well, and provide the leadership, organisational structures and processes that ensure that the enterprise
Hopefully you are able to find answers to any of your IT compliance-related questions through the source of information as follows (link:http://www.itcinstitute.com/display.aspx?id=3384):
ISACA Wellington is inviting participation from its members. Thanks to our members, our last ThinkTank session "What is the meaning of Governance" was lively, thought provoking and covered a lot of ground.
Audit committees in the public sector
This guide sets out the principles and good practices needed to set up and effectively operate an audit committee in the public sector.
8 April 2008
Attached are notes from the first chapter think tank, where we considered the definition of governance.
Members are invited to propose a think tank topic, which can be on anything relevant to assurance, security, and governance, including issues that you are personally tackling in your organisation.
The format of think tanks is that the proposer presents a topic or issue for 5 to 10 minutes followed by discussion. This is a superb opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences and to essentially bring a collection of brainpower to bear on a subject.
According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA’s) Top Technology Initiatives survey, the top 10 technology initiatives in 2008 are:
1. Information security management
2. Information technology (IT) governance
3. Business continuity management and disaster recovery
4. Privacy management
5. Business process improvement, workflow, and process exception alerts
6. Identity and access management
According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA’s) Top Technology Initiatives survey, the top 10 technology initiatives in 2008 are:
Four interactive presentations will examine how to blend PCI compliance with other audit and regulatory requirements, look at new and future requirement changes, examine PCI DDS and discuss what to look for in a PCI vendor.
New e-Symposium Instructions: Click http://isaca.brighttalk.com to access the new ISACA e-Symposium site.
The following are some IT audit, IT Governance, Project Management and IT security related certifications you might be interested in.
Please note this list is not intended to be comprehensive and it is just for your reference only.
3 ISACA certified qualifications are included in this list too.
