دانلود کتاب The Risk IT Framework

This document forms part of ISACA’s Risk IT initiative, which is dedicated to helping enterprises manage IT-related risk. The collective experience of a global team of practitioners and experts, and existing and emerging practices and methodologies for effective IT risk management, have been consulted in the development of the Risk IT framework. Risk IT is a framework based on a set of guiding principles and featuring business processes and management guidelines that conform to these principles.

The Risk IT framework complements ISACA’s COBIT1, which provides a comprehensive framework for the control and governance of business-driven information-technology-based (IT-based) solutions and services. While COBIT sets good practices for the means of risk management by providing a set of controls to mitigate IT risk, Risk IT sets good practices for the ends by providing a framework for enterprises to identify, govern and manage IT risk.

The Risk IT framework is to be used to help implement IT governance, and enterprises that have adopted (or are planning to adopt) COBIT as their IT governance framework can use Risk IT to enhance risk management.

The COBIT processes manage all IT-related activities within the enterprise. These processes have to deal with events internal or external to the enterprise. Internal events can include operational IT incidents, project failures, full (IT) strategy switches and mergers. External events can include changes in market conditions, new competitors, new technology becoming available and new regulations affecting IT. These events all pose a risk and/or opportunity and need to be assessed and responses developed. The risk dimension, and how to manage it, is the main subject of the Risk IT framework. When opportunities for IT-enabled business change are identified, the Val IT framework best describes how to progress and maximise the return on investment. The outcome of the assessment will probably have an impact on some of the IT processes and/or on the input to the IT processes; hence, the arrows from the ‘Risk Management’ and ‘Value Management’ boxes are directed back to the ‘IT Process Management’ area.

IT risk is business risk—specifically, the business risk associated with the use, ownership, operation, involvement, influence and adoption of IT within an enterprise. It consists of IT-related events that could potentially impact the business. It can occur with both uncertain frequency and magnitude, and it creates challenges in meeting strategic goals and objectives. IT risk can be categorised in different ways.