Bøger af Alan Calder

In corporate governance environment, where the value and importance of intellectual assets are significant, boards must be seen to extend the core governance principles - setting strategic aims, and overseeing and monitoring the performance of executive management - to the organisation's intellectual capital, information and IT.

Use an IT Governance strategy to reduce riskAn Introduction for Directors and IT professionalsThe modern organisation is increasingly working within the context of corporate governance. The subject dictates their day-to-day and strategic activities, especially corporate information asset risk management and investment, and the ICT infrastructure within which those information assets are collected, manipulated, stored and deployed.But what is corporate governance, and why is it important to the IT professional? Why is IT governance important to the company director, and what do directors of companies - both quoted and unquoted - need to know?The Calder-Moir FrameworkThe book also explains how to integrate each standard and framework using The Calder-Moir Framework (download for free from www.itgovernance.co.uk/calder_moir.aspx), which was developed specifically to help organisations manage and govern their IT operations more effectively, and to coordinate the sometimes wide range of overlapping and competing frameworks and standards. It also specifically supports implementation of ISO/IEC 38500, the international standard for best practice IT governance.Practical IT Governance guidanceBoard executives and IT professionals can learn to maximise their use of the numerous IT management and IT governance frameworks and standards - particularly ISO/IEC 38500 - to best corporate and commercial advantage.Build an IT Governance FrameworkWithin a 'super framework', or 'meta -framework', you can integrate each of these standards and frameworks whilst making sure that each can deliver what it was designed to do. Developing an overarching framework will enable your organisation to design IT governance to meet your own needs.

Provides the reader with a basic understanding of how an organization's Information Technology supports and enables the achievement of its strategies and objectives. This pocket guide describes the drivers for IT governance; why it matters; and, the relationship between IT governance, risk management, information risk and project governance.

Aims to provide guidance that helps directors and boards understand important business topics of the information age. This book comes with a complimentary copy of the eBook version.

Information is the currency of the information age and in many cases is the most valuable asset possessed by an organisation. Information security management is the discipline that focuses on protecting and securing these assets against the threats of natural disasters, fraud and other criminal activity, user error and system failure. Effective information security can be defined as the ‘preservation of confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.’ This book describes the approach taken by many organisations to realise these objectives. It discusses how information security cannot be achieved through technological means alone, but should include factors such as the organisation’s approach to risk and pragmatic day-to-day business operations. This Management Guide provides an overview of the implementation of an Information Security Management System that conforms to the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001:2005 and which uses controls derived from ISO/IEC 17799:2005. It covers the following: CertificationRiskDocumentation and Project Management issuesProcess approach and the PDCA cyclePreparation for an Audit