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The simple reason is that they just don’t realise the potential benefits that an effective IT governance framework can provide. Often it will not feature on the CEO’s top list of challenges, because they don’t understand what it could do for their business.

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• Meet all your regulatory and statutory compliance requirements
• IT can facilitate and drive business change, helping meet business objectives

It seems that the pressure on boards to implement an effective IT governance framework is becoming inexorable. IT governance needs to be of value, whilst simultaneously delivering improved competitiveness, better compliance and greater shareholder transparency.

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As someone who works in the IT industry, you will be faced with a number of frameworks, regulations and even standards that you need to comply with to ensure best-practice for your business.

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Change can bring improved efficiency, increased productivity and greater profitability. But how do you identify the changes that will benefit your business, and how do you implement them?

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India’s Information Technology Minister, Kapil Sibal, has said that there will be no censorship on social media websites (such as Facbook and Twitter), but that Internet firms must obey the country’s laws.

Last year, Mr Sibal said that the government would introduce guidelines to ensure “blasphemous material” would not appear on the Internet, as it could cause communal unrest. This has caused outcry from global companies such as Google and Facebook, who profess that it is impossible to pre-monitor material posted by “billions of people across the globe”.

(Source: BBC News)

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How to Use Web 2.0 and Social Networking Sites Securely

Threat 2.0: Security and compliance for Web 2.0 sites

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