Information Security Management: Top Priority in 2008?

An article, published by Reuters and called “Information Security Management Still Number One Concern”, provides an overview of the recent American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)' 19th Annual Top Technology Initiatives survey:

“The AICPA poll was conducted in late 2007 with ISACA, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Information Technology Alliance (ITA). Respondents identified the top 10 most important technology initiatives for 2008 as follows:

1. 1. Information Security Management
2. 2. IT Governance
3. 3. Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery Planning
4. 4. Privacy Management
5. 5. Business Process Improvement, Workflow, and Process Exceptions Alerts
6. 6. Identity and Access Management
7. 7. Conforming to Assurance and Compliance Standards
8. 8. Business Intelligence
9. 9. Mobile and Remote Computing
10. 10. Document, Forms, Content and Knowledge Management

A selective group of 1,169 finance, accounting and technology participants ranked 29 technology initiatives they felt would have the most significant impact on their organizations in the next 12 to 18 months.”

Please notice that both Privacy Management and Identity Management appear in this list.

This article also reports that Lynn Lawton, International President of ISACA, made this interesting statement: "Recent studies show that investors are willing to pay a premium of up to 20 percent more for shares of enterprises with reputations for good IT governance practices; properly governed IT is critical to an organization's success."

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