Corporate Backgrounder
- IT Governance Limited is the one‐stop‐shop for books, tools, training and consultancy focused on Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.
- We provide expert information and guidance on many of today’s most critical GRC issues, such as information security (including ISO27001, ISO27002 and PCI DSS), IT governance (including CobiT, ITIL and ISO20000), business continuity (including BS25999) and project governance (Prince2).
- IT Governance’s policy is to offer only the very best GRC products available on the market. These include our own proprietary books, toolkits, software and services, and an extensive range of other books and resources published by many of the world’s most respected authors and organisations.
- Our objective is to provide in a single place everything needed to meet today’s technology compliance challenges: the most authoritative and helpful books; the most intuitive specialist toolkits and software; access to best practice training workshops and courses, both our own and third party; and specialist consultancy services grounded in our deep understanding of the subject area.
- IT Governance was founded by chief executive Alan Calder, the prolific information security and IT governance author. Together with colleague Steve Watkins, he wrote ‘IT Governance: A Manager’s Guide to Data Security and BS7799/ISO17799’, the definitive compliance guide to what is now called ISO27001. The third edition of this book is the basis for the Open University’s postgraduate course on information security. Other books by Alan Calder include ‘The Case for ISO27001’, ‘ISO27001 – Nine Steps to Success’, ‘Risk Assessment for Asset Owners’, ‘IT Governance: Guidelines for Directors’, ‘IT Governance: A Practitioner’s Handbook’ and ‘IT Regulatory Compliance in the UK’.
- IT Governance’s products and services are particularly well suited to mid-size private and public sector organisations, which need to respond to the challenges of information security and IT governance in a cost-effective manner.
- Our ethos is ‘non‐geek’, approaching GRC issues from a non‐technology background. We share the priorities and perspective of non‐IT executives and talk to management in its own language. We also help technologists to communicate more effectively with senior executives and board directors, thereby helping align technology with the business.
- IT Governance serves a truly global customer base, spanning the Americas, Europe and Australasia. Our products and services are available through our busy e‐commerce site, www.itgovernance.co.uk. Products specific to the United States market are also available from our dedicated website www.27001.com and distributed from within the USA. In addition, various ITGP books are available from leading high street and online retailers.
Some IT Governance Factoids:
- Four areas of activity:
- Publishing (under the separately trademarked ITGP brand)
- 33 books and toolkits published, with a further 20 in the pipeline for 2008
- Distribution
- 75 third party publishers
- 1,450 products available through the website
- Training
- Comprehensive Training Gateway
- Consultancy
- IT Governance and ISO27001 specialist
- Publishing (under the separately trademarked ITGP brand)
- Top ranked international website – www.itgovernance.co.uk
- In top 280,000 websites worldwide
- Separate US website – www.27001.com
- 50%-owned joint venture – www.vigilantsoftware.co.uk
- Completed first acquisition – www.bugbox.biz
- More than 5,000 customers served through our website since March 2005
- Credible customers:
- Interesting symmetry: our customers include the UK Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defence, the UK FSA and the US SEC, the UK Meteorological Service and the US National Weather Service, the UK’s London Stock Exchange and the US NASDAQ.
- Other notable customers include the Cabinet Office (No 10 Downing Street), the Consumer’s Association (Which), NASA, NATO and the United Nations.
