Malta Info Security

Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending the 2007 ISACA conference which focused on IT Assurance and Security - Governing IT

Given that one of major areas the government is currently investing heavily in is the IT sector, ISACA Malta President Alan Alden and the Malta ISACA team correctly directed the conference's focus on the major areas of upcoming development with regards to IT infrastructures and project management. In an attempt to increase general awareness for the need of Information Security and IT Governance, the topics emphasized the need for proper structured planning before any major project is embarked on. The speakers were carefully chosen to relate to past experiences and more importantly success stories which were intended to serve as an example for us to follow when taking strategic IT based decisions.

The first half of the conference talked about the use of COBIT and PRINCE2 as frameworks to support the project planning and work flow of projects. It continued to show how COBIT has been accepted as the chosen best practices for IT Governance --- a term which seems to be increasingly seeping into todays business jargon. So as the conference progressed, all speakers seemed to stress that all IT projects need to follow a management methodology to ensure that IT systems support the business objectives/goals. Sour interaction between the two and projects will fail due to the eventual lack of accountability.

The ways to a successful project therefore require ...

1. measurement of project status and position against a maturity model
2. management risks
3. management quality

... throughout the whole project as an ongoing process.

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