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Risk Management

An organisation can be at risk from many sources and it not just IT. The recent UK floodings, bombings and terrorist attacks have also had their impact and it is essential that organisations have plans in place to deal with the aftermath - should these disasters occur.

Fundamentally, you need to understand where your real risks lie and how you mitigate them. Consider your primary business assets, not forgetting your information assets. This is where ICT risk-management is often misplaced; it is relatively easy to replace hardware, but the information stored thereon may have taken years to design or accumulate. Your main options are to: Prevent the risk - stop it happening, Reduce the risk - reduce the impact if it does happen or Transfer the risk - bluntly put - make it someone else's problem!

ITAdviser - NCC's Member Journal:

	Reaching the Summit of the Workload Mountain	28 September 2009

	Let's go Agile! What is it, by the way?	28 September 2009

	The future of business lies in automation	25 September 2009

	Data Obfuscation - managing data privacy in development and test environments	24 September 2009

	Collaborative tools are one way to combat digital clutter	24 September 2009

	Access Control - An Update	16 June 2009

	Into the Cloud we go. have we thought about the security issues?	16 June 2009

	Get Your Head in the Clouds	16 June 2009

	Risk and Compliance in the Cloud	11 June 2009

	Innovating through difficult financial times	11 June 2009

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Guidelines - concise and informative review of critical IT issues:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Guideline 328: Cloud Computing	7 July 2009

	Guideline 326: Embracing and Managing a Successful Social Media Initiative	5 June 2009

	Guideline 321: Data Loss Prevention	17 December 2008

	Guideline 303: User Authentication	1 September 2006

	Guideline 289: Protect and Survive - Defending against application hacking	11 October 2004

Legal Guidelines - concise and informative legal updates:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Escrow	1 August 1997

	Disaster Recovery	1 June 1997

	Insurance	1 May 1997

	Legal Issues For Multimedia Products	1 February 1997

	Protection Against Computer Misuse	1 January 1997

	Transfer of Software	1 December 1996

	Liabilities Arising From Computer Use	1 January 1996

	Data Protection, Compliance and Risks	1 September 1995

	Liabilities Attaching to Safety-Related Systems	1 April 1995

Best Practice Guides*:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

Best Practice Guide: IT Governance

21 December 2005

Benchmarks* - establised surveys to benchmark your own performance:

Qualifying NCC Members can access the document(s) below. For further information please contact membership@ncc.co.uk

	Benchmark of IT Strategy 2008	20 October 2008

	Data archiving, e-disclosure and internal access	17 September 2008

	Are you, or have you ever been, a vulnerability?	15 January 2008

	Mergers and Acquisitions and their IT impact	7 December 2007

	Identity Management, Trust and Security On-line	4 December 2007

	Benchmark of IT Strategy 2007 - Executive Summary	26 October 2007

	Security and Information Risk Survey	3 April 2007