Information systems risk management

Develop vital risk management skills that will help you reduce the negative business impacts caused by weaknesses in your organisation's information systems and processes

Course overview
With the modern worlds' increasing dependence on technology-based information systems, the implications of system failure can be profound. Revenue loss, inconvenience, damage to company image, a decline in productivity and complete closures are only some of the possible consequences which can result.

Often companies focus major effort in reducing risks such as fraud or network security breaches but fail to adequately consider the more common risks such as processing errors, information integrity loss and performance issues. Companies also need to encourage an enterprise-wide risk culture
This course focuses on those risks related to the use of information systems in the enterprise and emphasizes that intrinsic controls and risk prevention measures can be designed into systems and processes from the outset.

Course objectives:

Understand and articulate the risks to business from the deployment of information systems

Be able to describe the risk management landscape

Describe the importance of identifying and managing IS-related risk and security issues in organisations

Develop strategies for IS risk management,

Recognise the relevance of both human and organisational factors to IS risk

Be able to conduct a systems risk assessment and identify controls and measures for risk mitigation and management

Date: 09 September 2010
Venue: FTI House, Cape Town