TAG | 3100 professionals, 95 countries, 21 options and the 7 IT related business issues that matter most |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 05 August 2008 | |
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ISACA is a non-profit association based in the US but serving a global membership of some 86,000 IT governance professionals. Despite going down the Prince/Symbol road and becoming an acronym, it still manages to produce interesting reports every now and then. North America 37 percent, Europe/Africa 32 percent, Asia 22 percent, Central/South America 5 percent and Oceania 4 percent. Given a list of 21 different business issue options, the respondents were asked to choose the one that was most impacted by technology. This produced a final list of 7 which were ranked as follows in order of most importance:
Greg Grocholski is a senior finance director at Dow Chemical, but also happens to be the chair of ISACA's Assurance Committee. He told us that the cost of losing or compromising integrity of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is leading to a renewed focus on information security. "The survey shows that 81 percent of the 1,600 respondents who named information security management as a number 3 concern said that security risks are not fully known or are only partially assessed using technology" Grocholski said. The study went on to reveal that there are still a lot of enterprises which are not adequately prepared for data disaster. Some 80 percent of the 1,500 ISACA members who said that business continuity management was the most important issue, resulting in its number 4 spot in the list, also said their business managers and owners were not fully aware of their responsibilities to maintain the ability to perform critical business functions in the event of a disaster. Confidence inspiring stuff. Not!
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