IT Compliance and Controls
Best Practices for Implementation
Chapter One
Operating in an
Interconnected Universe
Key Topics Addressed in This Chapter
Globalization: opportunities and challenges
Interlinked business functions and networks
Regulation, mandate, and activism
THE INTEGRATED UNIVERSE
Entire industries, societies, and newly developing cultures are being created and
older ones are being integrated into the most elaborate, global, intertwined,
and automated technological system that has ever been seen. The significance
of these computing environments in every enterprise, company, government,
association, and affiliation of every size cannot be exaggerated. Yet
the technological environment within which this evolution is occurring has
few, if any, structured or defined boundaries. For any enterprise to ensure
operational effectiveness and efficiency in the future, much less to avoid
lethal syndromes and mortal traumas, it is critical that, at the very least ... read full excerpt from IT Compliance and Controls: Best Practices for Implementation ebook