Best Practices for CIOs are the road to success
Best Practices for CIOs, CSOs, and CTOs are the road to success -- without them organizations will not graduate to world class status
Best Practices for CIOs are the road to success - A best practice is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive, or reward that is believed to be more effective at restoring the operation of an enterprise after a disaster or enterprise interruption event occurs.
IT Governance and Compliance Requirements Best Practices
- Understand all existing and proposed regulation and compliance requirement
- Have clear definition of duties (job descriptions) that meet all infrastructure, security and compliance requirements
- Continually assess the internal controls of IT that are in place
- Establish a baseline of IT internal controls - include a definition of baseline policies and procedures that need to be in place in IT function
- Audit compliance to baseline of IT internal controls and governance requirements
- Track access to all "protected" and confidential data
- Preserve audit data in secure long term storage
- Establish and enforce separation of duties and management accountability
- Implement metrics that support the alignment of IT with enterprise requirements
- Implement a function which focuses on implications of new technology on infrastructure and governance of IT
DRP and BCP Best Practices
- Focus on operations
- Train everyone on how to execute the DRP and BCP
- Have a clear definition for declaring when a disaster or business interruption occurs that will set the DRP and BCP process into motion
- Integrate DRP and BCP with change management
- Focus on addressing issues BEFORE they impact the enterprise
- Validate that all technology is properly installed and configured right from the start
- Monitor the processes and people to know what critical
