Governance

Nearly 15 petabytes – one million gigabytes – of data are created every day. We have the expertise and technology to harness that information to improve our businesses – as well as our lives and our planet. But making it work requires information governance to ensure that it’s fresh, accurate and authentic. Such trusted information can help meet regulatory compliance demands, sustain profitable growth, reduce risk and predict future outcomes with greater confidence.

Although governance and security programs are paramount to any local authority or business, not many organizations or security professionals fully understand all that is involved with these two concepts.

What is information security governance?

Information security governance consists of the

• Leadership
• Organisational structures
• Processes/procedures
• Compliance enforcement/ monitoring mechanisms and
• Technologists.

that ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the organisations assets (data, information, software etc) are maintained at all times i.e. that all risk against the companies assets are mediated and countered.

The growing dependence of most organisations on their information systems has created threats such as theft of data, attacks using malicious code and denial of service which has in turn have made IT Governance an increasingly critical facet of overall governance.