Top Business/IT Issues Survey Results

ISACA has released the results of a survey to identify current business issues, supported by technology.  The top seven business issues identified are:

1. Regulatory Compliance
2. IT Management/Governance
3. Information Security Management
4. Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
5. IT Value Management
6. Challenges of Managing IT Risks
7. Financial reporting standards

The report provides a “drill-down” of each of the seven business issues, for Information Security Management the specific points were:

1. Lack of top management involvement in setting direction and objectives for information security
2. Performance and effectiveness of information security controls not regularly measured, monitored or improved
3. Information security risks either not known or only partially assessed
4. Lack of enterprise-wide information security awareness and training
5. Information security perceived as belonging exclusively to the IT realm

Download the report here