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This page is a collection of links to 3rd party articles that reference empirical evidence or data focused content that aligns
with the scope of ITPI research and benchmarking.

Article Date Posted Source
Why today's IT organization won't work tomorrow 04/01/06 ATKearney
Description: Caught in operational mode, IT organizations are not well positioned to help create or implement the types of strategies that set a business apart.  
 
Causality and IT Service Management 03/23/06 ITSMWatch
Description: Business management, notably senior management, has the tools to govern the IT organization, but is thrown off by the technical jargon and thus tends to avoid determining the correct questions to ask.  
 
45% of Enterprises with business continuity plans have invoked them 03/21/06 Sourcewire
Description: Top-level findings show that despite both growing industry-wide adoption of formalised BC plans (73%) and a startling percentage of organisations that have needed to invoke those plans (45%), many organisations still fall short in their preparedness for an IT disaster.  
 
The intersection of Sarbanes-Oxley and insider threats 03/16/06 ComputerWorld
Description: There is a growing trend for information security budgets to be shared between traditional security projects and compliance-related agendas. This makes sense because the consequences of an insider threat, for example, parallel many of the concerns around Sarbanes-Oxley. 
 
CIOs think biggest threat comes from within 03/14/06 kansascity.com
Description: Almost three-quarters — 74 percent — of chief information officers interviewed by IBM think the largest threats to corporate security “are now coming from inside the organization.” 
 
Be Methodical - Eight reasons to plan out your security testing 03/01/06 SearchWindows
Description: Security is always an urgent matter and the urge with testing is to get to it right away to find and fix vulnerabilities. But if you're going to do things right, you absolutely, positively have to plan out your security testing strategies and work in a methodical fashion.