IT Strategic and Operational Controls

Vital information on how to systematically implement IT strategic and operational controls to support and enhance your organisation!

Master IT controls concepts and issues        
Written with practicality and convenience in mind, this book is an ideal tool for those without specialised technical expertise seeking to understand IT controls and their design, implementation, monitoring, review and audit issues. 

Minimise risk and maximise benefits
This book provides a comprehensive guide to implementing an integrated and flexible set of IT controls in a systematic way. It can help organisations to formulate a complete culture for all areas which must be supervised and controlled; allowing them to simultaneously ensure a secure, high standard whilst striving to obtain the strategic and operational goals of the company.

Benefits to business include:

• Understand and control the associated risks of IT systems
  This book contains practical advice and illustrates solutions to the tremendously complicated problems of designing, implementing and auditing new and existing systems, making use of practical and easily customisable examples.
• Increase management’s aptitude to achieve operational goals
  With well-controlled, integrated and robust IT systems, you can gain a comparative advantage in a competitive environment, whilst ensuring that information is relevant, accurate and timely.
• Ensure high standards within your IT systems
  For each covered aspect of control, this book provides audit programmes and checklists to help management and auditors carry out reviews and audits. As an additional aid, there is an appendix comprising guidelines and examples of ‘how to enhance’ IT security, IT policies and ethical code. Auditors will find reference to a large number of very relevant tools for use in auditing and reviewing IT operations.