Compliance by Design : IT controls that work

Reconsider how you view compliance, and your business will reap the rewards.A must have book for anyone who is looking to develop awareness and deeper insight into IT controls, strategies and techniques to solve compliance challenges.What does 'compliance' mean to you? Is it a burden, a box-ticking exercise, or a way to avoid the penalties of non-compliance? Or do you see the opportunities it presents for your business?In Compliance by Design, Chong Ee will show you how your organisation can benefit from becoming compliant with the relevant national and international standards. You will discover how integrating controls into your processes will improve your security, increase your productivity, save you time and money, and increase your profits.Drawing on personal experience and using up-to-date, practical examples, the book considers the elements and principles of controls, and offers strategies to put them in place. It will show you how to:implement changes that will improve your processesallay fears and overcome resistance from your stakeholdersintegrate controls into your everyday processesachieve synergy from interconnected processesassess your priorities and handle conflicting objectivesanalyse and manage risksestablish a system of controls that is right for your businessmanage your technology to make it work for you.Moving away from traditional effortsTraditional efforts in attaining or sustaining IT compliance employ an outside-looking-in approach, characterised by capturing varied compliance requirements and/or frameworks and applying these within the organisation. This book advocates an inside-looking-out approach, emphasising fundamental ideas of good control design as the basis for developing effective and sustainable IT compliance strategies.Tools and techniquesCompliance by Design gives you the tools and techniques to put in place the right system of internal controls. The focus is on IT controls, but there are also numerous references to business and entity controls.Buy this book and see how compliance can work for you.