Saturday, March 25, 2006

Increasing Business Value via Compliance


Build a strong governance model within IT for more efficient and effective operations.

Complying with regulations using tools such as COBIT and other frameworks and standards not only helps ensure an organization's IT is controlled and secure; there are other benefits, too.

Some news reports have criticized new legislation and regulations, saying compliance is extremely expensive, is to blame for the perceived increase of CFOs departing from publicly traded companies, and is causing some companies to rethink their IPOs altogether. Although there are issues that still have to be worked out with SOX, complaints and finger pointing threaten to overshadow the potentially significant bottom-line benefits of compliance.

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