When there is no wind ... ROW! — Latin Proverb.
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A truly amazing story - www.the-race-movie.com
ITS FRIDAY - YES !!! - HASGWE.
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1. Auditing IT Initiatives Thought Leadership as IT Project Failure is NOT An Option.
http://www.auditnet.org/articles/DSIA200702.htm
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2. Process Maturity Model Can Help Give a Business an Edge
http://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c060501a.asp
It is important to improve the entire gamut of business processes for an organization to achieve a competitive edge. A good way to do that is for the organization to focus on improving the maturity level of key business processes. Business-critical processes can be arrived at by the following steps:
Analyze the areas that the organization has an impact on. Generally, it has an impact on quality, timely delivery, compliance (regulatory / statutory / certification), cost and people.
Arrive at a rating scale and a weighing scale for the high impact areas. Rate all high impact processes. Arrived at the total process criticality value by summation of the ratings for the processes. Identify cutoff value and sort the processes above the cutoff value.
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Reducing the Impact of Cyber Attacks - (a useful checklist has been released).
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3. This check list is intended as a comprehensive survey of the steps that corporations
and other organizations should take to reduce their vulnerability to cyber-attacks.
www.ussecurityawareness.org/docs/US-CCU%20Cyber-Security%20Check%20List%202007.pdf
4. Other great resources (to support your ongoing INFO SEC efforts) are available at:
a) http://www.ussecurityawareness.org
b) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gideons-infosec-list
c) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/insider-threat
d) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/security-awareness
5. Create a Winning Strategy for Your Awareness Program.
Awareness programs are the cheapest way to prevent costly problems, but the security message can be easy to ignore. CSOs and CISOs share their strategies for spreading the good word. - by Lew McCreary.
www.csoonline.com/read/110106/fea_awareness.html
Enjoy.
HAGWE.
Dan
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Dan's Internal Audit Corner
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Each month Dan Swanson, a senior security and internal audit professional will provide his list of recommended resources for AuditNet readers. You can reach Dan at his website or by clicking here.
Auditing IT Initiatives “Thought Leadership”.
- (Because an IT Project Failure is NOT An Option)
Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century. - Jim Rohn.
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Assessing the implementation “preparedness” of your various IT initiatives is always needed prior to start-up – (by someone).
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Some key questions to consider:
For the questions and resources click here.
http://www.auditnet.org/articles/DSIA200702.htm
Have another great month.
Best regards.
Dan Swanson
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