PO1.2:

PO 1.2 Business-IT Alignment

Control Objective:

Educate executives on current technology capabilities and future directions, the opportunities that IT provides, and what the business has to do to capitalize on those opportunities. Make sure the business direction to which IT is aligned is understood. The business and IT strategies should be integrated, clearly linking enterprise goals and IT goals and recognizing opportunities as well as current capability limitations, and broadly communicated. Identify where the business (strategy) is critically dependent on IT and mediate between imperatives of the business and the technology, so agreed priorities can be established.

Applicability:

Sarbanes-Oxley

HIPAA

GLBA

PCI

FISMA

NIST SP 800-66

Ditscap

Control Exception

User Defined

Risk Association Control Activities:

Implementation Guide:

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Control Commentary
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Control Exception Commentary
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Evidence Archive Location
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Remediation Plan
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Supplemental Information:
ISO 17799 4.1 A management framework should be established to initiate and control the implementation of information security within the organization. A suitable management forum with management leadership should be established to approve the information security policy, assign security roles and co-ordinate the implementation of security across the organization. If necessary, a source of specialist information security advice should be established and made available within the organization. Contacts with external security specialists should be developed to keep up with industrial trends, monitor standards and security audit assessment methods and provide suitable liaison points when dealing with security incidents. A multi-disciplinary approach to information security should be encouraged, e.g. involving the co-operation and collaboration of managers, users, administrators, application designers, auditors and security staff, and specialist skills in areas such as insurance and risk management.

ITIL The Business Perspective.

ITIL Business/IS Alignment.

ITIL 4.3 The management governance framework ICT Infrastructure Management, Annex 2B.

ITIL The Contents of ICT Policies, Strategies, Architectures and Plan.

Implementation guidance
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