This week’s resources are a diverse collection of web sites and articles I’ve come across over the past couple of years.
Checking out different organization’s views and recommended guidance helps broaden your perspective and sometimes even addresses a burning business problem back at the office.
Finally, I’d like to ask readers to consider sending in their favorite resources, especially those that they believe would be useful to the IT and IT Security communities.
Good luck and have another great week.
1. George Spafford's research site
Be sure to join his Daily News email list published approximately once per week that provides global news coverage of stories about regulatory compliance, security, errors, human factors, outsourcing and technology business. In case you are wondering about the name, it began as a daily newsletter but has slowed up as his schedule has filled up. http://www.spaffordconsulting.com/
2. IT Audit Checklist for IT Governance and Strategy.
The IT Audit Checklist for IT Governance and Strategy offers: 1) 74 specific checklist items to help assess your audit readiness, 2) A breakdown of suggested management, operational, and technical controls, 3) Clarification on what auditors want (and don't want) to see, and, 4) Pointers regarding audit preparation, testing, and reporting.
http://www.itcinstitute.com/display.aspx?id=2499
3. The Faculty of Information Technology
The IT Faculty helps chartered accountants make the best possible use of IT. The faculty represents chartered accountants’ IT-related interests and expertise, and contributes to IT-related public affairs. It keeps people in business up-to-date by providing a range of products, services and publications.
http://www.icaew.co.uk/index.cfm?route=110103
4. Improving the use of technology
This web page offers only a glimpse at the vast array of resources and guidance available for reliability, security, efficiency, and the many other positive attributes associated with managing information and related technologies.
http://www.chlglobalassociates.com/wst_page4.html
5. Managed networks are the future
Agencies clearly are interested in outsourcing the management of their network and communications. And the General Services Administration’s Networks government-wide acquisition contract likely will be the lever to get this idea moving more quickly. Agency and vendor experts today said handing over some or all of your network management responsibilities to a managed services provider could provide cost savings, improved security and improved continuity of operations planning. But, experts warned, agency officials must detail to a specific level of granularity their performance expectations.
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/43191-1.html
6. Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects
Successful projects don't just happen—they are made to happen. This book goes beyond the basics of project management and reveals leading-edge best practices that make all the difference between leading consistently successful projects and playing the victim with troubled projects.