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It Governance Presentation Outline

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Slide 1: Title Slide

IT Governance: Managing Emerging Risks with Generative AI (GenAI)

  • Overview of IT governance as a subset of corporate governance
  • Specific governance areas within IT governance
  • Risks associated with uncontrolled use of GenAI
  • Mitigating these risks using COBIT and operational measures

Slide 2: What is Corporate Governance?

  • Set of rules, practices, and processes for directing and controlling an organization
  • Ensures alignment of business strategy with stakeholder interests
  • Core principles: Transparency, accountability, fairness, responsibility
  • Involves oversight of management, financial performance, risk management, and compliance

Slide 3: What is IT Governance?

  • Subset of corporate governance focused on managing IT resources and risks
  • Aligns IT strategies with business goals to deliver value
  • Ensures efficient and secure IT operations
  • Manages IT risks, compliance, and resource allocation
  • Provides accountability and transparency in IT-related decisions

Slide 4: How IT Governance Relates to Corporate Governance

  • IT governance ensures that IT initiatives support broader business objectives
  • Manages risks that arise from the use of technology in the organization
  • IT governance enables strategic use of technology to enhance business performance
  • Supports corporate governance principles like accountability, compliance, and risk management

Slide 5: Specific Governance Areas within IT Governance

  • IT Risk Governance: Identifies and mitigates IT-related risks (cybersecurity, system failures)
  • Data Governance: Ensures data security, privacy, and compliance with regulations
  • Information Security Governance: Protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information
  • IT Resource Governance: Optimizes management of IT assets and personnel
  • Compliance Governance: Ensures compliance with laws (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) in IT operations

Slide 6: Frameworks That Facilitate IT Governance

  • COBIT: Comprehensive framework for aligning IT with business goals and managing IT risks
  • Focuses on strategic alignment, risk management, performance measurement
  • ITIL: Framework for IT Service Management (ITSM)
  • Ensures efficient, reliable IT service delivery
  • Focuses on processes like incident management, change management, and service-level agreements (SLAs)

Slide 7: Uncontrolled Use of GenAI as a Specific IT Governance Risk

  • Online Models:
  • Risks of data privacy, security breaches, and compliance violations
  • Dependency on third-party vendors
  • Limited control over model behavior and updates
  • Local Models:
  • Vulnerabilities include model exploitation, bias in outputs, and resource strains
  • Risks of data poisoning, model theft, or misuse by authorized personnel

Slide 8: Operational Measures to Manage Risks of GenAI

  • Data Governance: Enforce data anonymization and privacy policies
  • Access Controls: Limit access to GenAI tools and models to authorized personnel
  • Model Monitoring: Continuously monitor GenAI performance and bias
  • Compliance Checks: Ensure AI usage complies with data privacy laws and regulations
  • Employee Training: Train staff on responsible AI use and risk awareness

Slide 9: How COBIT Monitors Risks Associated with GenAI

  • Risk Identification and Assessment:
  • COBIT guides the identification of risks like data breaches and model bias
  • Risk prioritization based on severity and business impact
  • Risk Mitigation:
  • COBIT recommends implementing controls such as encryption, access management, and monitoring tools
  • Performance Monitoring with KPIs:
  • Key metrics: Data breach incidents, model bias detection rates, compliance audit success rates
  • Regular audits and continuous improvement cycles

Slide 10: Conclusion

  • IT governance is essential for aligning IT initiatives with corporate governance goals
  • GenAI introduces specific risks that require careful management
  • Frameworks like COBIT provide structure for monitoring, assessing, and mitigating IT risks
  • Operational measures like data governance, access control, and compliance monitoring are key to managing GenAI risks