IT Governance

Here are the differences:
IT Outsourcing is distinct from other services outsourcing
- IT evolves rapidly making sourcing decisions highly volatile.
- Underlying economics of IT changes rapidly.
- IT is tightly integrated with other organisational functions.
- Switching costs are often prohibitive.
- IT Outsourcing clients are still highly inexperienced.

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1. Introduction

Objectives
This document defines the Clinical Dashboard Project Test Strategy and approach of incremental testing stages required to ensure the acceptability of the delivered solution. It covers all phases and releases. The foundation of the test and acceptance processes will be based on Clinical Dashboard existing Guidance. These processes will need to be enhanced to embrace the acceptance statements and criteria within the document.

Scope
This Test Strategy will cover the following:
- Identifying the successive types of testing to be undertaken throughout the lifecycle of development to live operations
- Details of the ongoing testing of service enhancement and change
- The scope of each type of testing
- Identifying how common expectations and testing standards are to be achieved for all types of testing
- The high level technical, resource and environmental requirements required
- The key testing and quality assurance procedures that will be required.

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Service Infrastructure
Production Infrastructure
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Continuity Infrastructure
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Service infrastructures on which [Service Infrastructure] depends

International Standards Organization (ISO) 17799/27001:
International standard for testing the effectiveness of most security systems

Control Objectives for Information Technology (COBIT):
http://www.isaca.org/cobit.htm
Developed by IT auditors and made available through the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). COBIT provides a framework for assessing a security program, developing a performance baseline, and measuring performance over time.

SysTrust:
http://www.aicpa.org/assurance/systrust/index.htm
Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Public Accountants. SysTrust provides a framework for evaluating controls for information systems assurance.

Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE):
http://www.cert.org/octave
Developed by the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University. OCTAVE provides measures based on accepted best practices for evaluating security programs.