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Navigating European security compliance
All organisations operate in a context of government regulations and industry standards. EU-wide directives, EU member state laws and US regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley that cut across industries combine with industry-specific regulations such as Basel II to create a regulatory compliance jungle in which it is increasingly difficult to manoeuvre. Nevertheless, firms need to understand which regulations apply, evaluate the business impact, and come into compliance. Compliance touches on all areas of a business, including IT security, forcing companies to find new and improved organisational and operational methodologies.
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Moving from reactive to strategic IT
IT executives are continually challenged with aligning business needs with IT. Firms employ a number of approaches to close the gap that do not go far enough. Gaps remain between the business’s desire for more innovation and technology’s ability to deliver, and between the business need for speed and the perception that IT is too slow and expensive. Nobody wins if IT only strives for speed. Instead, IT must forge an understanding of what is important for business outcomes to create a vision for how to enable them. This business-focused enterprise architecture must be championed by the CIO.
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Business drivers for risk management
Individual silos of risk management have emerged in enterprises worldwide as they react to mounting pressures, including distributed business environments, changing geo-political threats and new legislation. A federated approach to measuring and managing risk is beneficial. But risk management leaders must ensure that the business cases for their enterprise risk management programmes take an expanded view of the business impact, including elements such as resilience, culture and opportunity.
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