The Federal Government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has compiled The Essential Eight mitigation strategies as a starting point to improve cybersecurity.
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The Dangers of Shadow IT
Shadow IT is a real threat to effective IT governance in your organisation. It represents systems adopted within your organisation without approval and, more importantly, without consideration or understanding of the broader impact of those actions.
The ‘Scary’ Obligations of Information Governance
IT governance is about responsibilities and consequences. To ‘non-IT’ people, its value is often only highlighted when something goes wrong – when an IT governance failure has real and negative impacts on the organisation and those stakeholders.
In 2019, What is Good IT Culture? (Part Two)
In 2019, the challenges for effective IT governance are different than at any time in the past The rate of change of technology and threats and the shifting world of governance are particular challenges to developing and maintaining good IT culture.
In 2019, What is Good IT Culture? (Part One)
In 2019, the challenges for effective IT governance are different than at any time in the past The rate of change of technology and threats and the shifting world of governance are particular challenges to developing and maintaining good IT culture.
Leading Cybersecurity Risks: The Essential Eight
IT governance is about managing information as an asset consistently with organisational strategy and organisational culture. It is about practices, supported by policies, processes, and procedures, that are subject to continuous improvement as new trends emerge internally and externally.
Why So Many Businesses Are Turning to Managed IT Services
As a business, you should always be looking to see how your business can become more efficient, and at the same time save on resources. Simply moving along with your business continuing to run things the way that you’ve always run them is an easy way for a competitor to step in and one up you - due to a more efficient process, product, service, or package.
Protecting IT governance through the IT budget
IT governance is a critical initiative for your entire organisation. However, responsibility for the implementation and maintenance is delegated to the IT department. Often as organisational budgets are developed, insufficient funds are provided to the IT department. This prevents IT from providing the organisation with robust IT Governance systems.
Demonstrating the value of IT governance
More than ever, the modern IT department needs to demonstrate its value to all stakeholders – proving IT’s place as an enabler, rather than a cost centre. A well-developed IT governance framework is one of the best tools to highlight this value. IT governance is about responsibilities and consequences.
Keeping control of the IT narrative
In a previous blog, we covered the importance of an IT governance framework. Controlling the discussion about IT within your organisation is a critical tool in maintaining an IT governance framework.