IT governance

Organizations must find a way to stay reasonably current with security patches while meeting their service level agreements. The following recommendations can help organizations more efficiently tackle security patching.

With many sectors now preparing for the so-called cloud era, can governments be far behind? The most pressing questions are: Should there be a cloud police? Is the government that police?

Corporate governance and risk management are two areas that public and private organizations are starting to learn more about as scandals, both commercial or political, become visible to the general public and impact an organization's credibility, market value or future prospect. Atul Patel's SAP offers a way to mitigate risks through a structured approach to GRC.

The collapse of the global financial crisis in 2008 highlighted the inadequacy of existing regulatory frameworks. That regulators would allow global institutions like Lehman Brothers to run freely amok and cause widespread chaos across other industries is a clear indication that governance isn’t working the way it should be.

Power firm CLP Group talks about how they handle IT governance in their company, ensuring project implementations deliver real benefits to the company.

The pervasive use of technology in organisations has generated a critical dependency on IT that calls for organisations to focus on their IT governance.

With compliance coming into greater importance across the entire organization, how do you tie together directives to align IT with business, improve operational efficiency and comply with security policies and standards. Robert Stroud, ITSM and IT Governance Evangelist at CA connects ITSM, ITIL and Governance and how organizations can make all three meet.