As organizations become more complex the business units that comprise them have differing requirements for electronic records. Recent focus on regulatory compliance brought about by such issues as accounting scandals and identity theft have brought newfound pressure for IT managers to make sure that their electronic records and the IT processes that create them are in compliance with these stan...

Enterprise governance of IT (EGIT) is about the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT-enabled business investments. In this field, practice-oriented guidance like COBIT and Val IT are often promoted as...

Despite widespread adoption of IT control frameworks, little academic empirical research has been undertaken to investigate their use. This paper reports upon research to benchmark the maturity levels of 15 key IT control processes from the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) in public sector organisations across Australia. It also makes a comparison against a simi...

The organizations to be competitive have to provide services and delineate strategies to maintain high levels of profitability and efficiency to cope with changes in markets. Increasingly, organizations based their operational services through its Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) that need to be managed, controlled and monitored constantly. Although there are several gui...

The existence of the enterprise architecture is an attempt of managing and planning over the evolution of information systems in the sphere of an enterprise with model-based. In developing the enterprise architecture, there are several tools definition of components in the system. This tool is known as enterprises architecture (EA) framework. In this paper, we present a method to build a model ...

The aim of the current study is to evaluate and compare the IT governance maturity of Iran’s banking Industry and inform managers, who possess business knowledge and who may also be knowledgeable on the main aspects of COBIT, about the significant incremental risks this new technological advancement may expose the enterprise to if the proposals of possible controls are implemented by the prospe...

This work seeks to provide a new multi-criteria approach to assess IT Governance (ITG) in the area of Strategic Alignment. The complete methodological development process is described. The evaluation model uses Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and it is targeted to IT processes, more specifically to the COBIT © IT maturity levels, domains and processes, thus providing a differentiated an...

As part of the regulatory compliance process and the streamlining of public administration, the Peruvian government has implemented the National E-Government Plan in all state institutions with the aim of providing citizens with solid services based on the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). As part of the regulations, the requisites to be met by public institutions have b...

Although practitioners have mapped the alignment between IT-related standards, this work has rarely been reported in the academic literature. In particular the methods used have not been made explicit, which has limited the value of any reported results. The research described in this paper demonstrates a rigorous method for mapping the alignment between two example IT security standards. The t...