IT Governance Blog on IT governance, risk management, compliance and information security.

Attention all Apple users, the iCloud is finally here. This means that your Apple based content will now be available across all of your Apple devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Mac

According to Apple, the iCloud is “more than a hard drive in the sky” – it “automatically and securely stores your content” giving you access to all your data on whichever device you happen to be using.
Source: Apple

Apple and Google are leading the way when it comes to adopting Cloud Computing. But how safe is the cloud? How secure will your information be? And how could Cloud Computing benefit your business?

Cloud Computing: Assessing the risks answers these questions and many more. Using jargon-free language and relevant examples, analogies and diagrams, it is an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive guide the security, governance, risk, and compliance elements of Cloud Computing.

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“…It should be a most welcome read to any senior stakeholders looking to embrace the new Cloud Computing wave.”
Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO, Kaspersky Lab

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“…it does a great job of including real world insights, experiences and lessons learned while provided a professional (but still easy to read) insight into the world of Agile…”
Jared Carstensen – Deloitte & Touche

Everything you want to know about Agile will show you how to implement Agile within your organisation. More importantly, it will show you how to do this within the constraints of your existing project frameworks, budgeting, staffing and organisational structures.

Written in a clear business language, this book would be of benefit to executives, IT managers, project managers and management consultants who want to deliver successful Agile results.

Deliver exceptional results with Agile.

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This toolkit will make it easy for you to implement an effective IT governance framework as it contains all the documents, templates, guidelines, checklists, questionnaires, slide presentations, assessments and planning tools you will ever need, plus costs less than 1 day consultancy fee.

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Out this month, the Business Transformation Toolkit will enable you to:

• Plan and prepare for change, identify the objectives of the change wanting to be made, communicate it and manage the impact of the change
• Implement change, building an effective change team
• Embed the change, for the transition to appear seamless to the customer(s).

Written and created by Melanie Franklin (founder and Chief Executive of Maven Training, and author of Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide), this toolkit will help you put into place a detailed and effective documentation system to enable your businesses change, whilst also helping you to maintain and monitor the transformation.

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We also offer a Managing Business Transformation Training course in London, which will provide you with access to the structure and techniques for managing business transformation effectively in your business. Read more >>

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ITIL has been adopted by thousands of organisations throughout the world, including NASA, the UK National Health Service (NHS), HSBC bank and Disney™. But you shouldn’t just implement it because “NASA” has done so, you should implement it because of these reasons:

• Improved customer satisfaction – you will achieve a professional approach to service delivery, meaning your customers will be more satisfied
• Increased staff retention
• Increased ROI in terms of IT
• Improve morale within IT staff
• A more transparent approach towards IT costs and assets
• Improved delivery of third party services.

Start your ITIL journey with the ITIL 2011 Lifecycle Publication Suite; the updated official core titles that reflect the lifecycle of services.

The publications in the suite are:

• ITIL Service Strategy (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Design (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Transition (Softcover)
• ITIL Service Operation (Softcover)
• ITIL Continual Service Improvement (Softcover)

All the books in this kit have been updated to take into account the results of an extensive review, making these books more usable and accessible than ever before. This means it is easier than ever before to apply ITIL in your organisation, reaping the benefits!

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What’s included?

• Online 6-month access to the ITIL 2011 Foundation course – accredited by the APMG for study toward the ITIL 2011 Foundation exam,
• An update service is provided, so your courseware is always up-to-date,
• Our ITIL trainers supply global telephone and e-mail support and can answer any questions that you may have,
• A mock exam simulator is included in the course, allowing you to practice before you take your exam,

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This bundle includes:

• Information Security Awareness Posters
• ISO27000 and Information Security: A Combined Glossary
• An Introduction to Information Security and ISO27001
• IT Induction and Information Security Awareness

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Whether you’re seeing resistance from the board level or from within the IT department, the consensus is that adopting the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is still a “sensible thing to do from a security perspective”.

And in fact, if your organization transmits, processes or stores payment card data you must comply with PCI DSS. This compliance standard is a contractual obligation applied and enforced – by means of fines or other restrictions – directly by the payment providers themselves.

So in answer to the question ‘Can’t we just ignore PCI DSS?’ – the response is simply, ‘No’.

Source: SC Magazine

Train yourself or your staff in PCI DSS with our 1-day PCI Foundation Training Course >>

This 1-day, information-packed course, based on the new PCI DSS standard, gives you everything you need to know for PCI compliance.

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To gain PCI DSS compliance quickly and cost-effectively within your organisation, then why not use our PCI DSS v2.0 Documentation Compliance toolkit? It provides all the documentation templates for all the mandatory PCI DSS policies, implementation guidelines and guidance. Read more here >>

Order your copy of this essential DR and BC book today for immediate download!