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[TW] IT documents, audit and leaders

IT documents comes with different names such as the following: - Manual or handbook, - Policies and procedures, - Management systems, - Project plans. In the real world we have various names with unique descriptions and purposes when in fact they could be made to do a uniform direction for which actions are based for the entire IT initiatives, probably the longest in IT lifecycle is operation. The problem is our inclination on something else which is wrong. IT remains an IT area. Business remains a business area. The same problem is carried out when we conduct IT audit. Most audit are missing the gists in which IT is being used by businesses. We once said that an effective IT audit is conducted by IT people themselves but there is something wrong with that even. Business and accounting people have been doing it with a different bias and preconceived notions which doesn't make the cut for IT direction and audit respectively. Leaders play the same game and so the problem continues an
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The ingredients of good cyber security program

I am thinking, if an organization (or rather the world) is to create an effective cyber security initiative, it should have majority if not ALL of the following:

  • Legislation and policy
  • Law enforcement
  • Inline with open and international standards
  • Manpower
  • Multi-stakeholderism
  • Responsibility
  • Global and common strategy
  • Global cooperation
  • Adequate funding
  • Support and resources
  • Carefully planned and designed infrastructure
  • Education and training
  • Innovation
  • Development
  • Fair business practices
  • Clear cut public exposure
  • Goodwill.

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