Modern Computing is characterized by the terms “Service Orientation” and “Cloud Computing”. Due to delegation of services risks increase with potential damaging effects for all stakeholders. As long as computing took place in data centres, risk was identical to security violations. The last 15 years are characterized by two forms of outsourcing. The older one delegates computing, the new version is services on demand. The risks are characterized by unwanted information flow,uncontrolled data flow and privacy and security violations. The present paradigm is defined by cloud computing, where specialization effects lead to new economies of scale. Concepts like Software-as-a-Service(Saas), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS),and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) describe the three levels of service computing, where the users delegate not just data, but also service execution on a demand basis. The focus with regard to the seminar topic is on SaaS, where resilience as a concept to deals with adaption is introduced as a means to handle rapid process alignment and to increase transparency.

This seminar discusses forms of modern forms of IT governance, security, risk and compliance evolving with cloud computing and service delegation. The contents is focused on a management concept based upon the term “Interaction” and risk phases,where IT-Governance needs to manage (1) as risks of Connectivity and (2) as risks of Compatibility and (3) as risks of loss of Controllability. Technical security concepts as well as formal means to ensure and automatically evaluate compliance are the center-pieces of modern IT Governance

After attending this course, students will have learned about IT-Goverance in Service oriented Computing:

IT Governance concept encompassing Risks as a process, formalized compliance and Security, as well as privacy

 .Architecture of Service oriented Computing

· IT-Governance, IT Security and IT Compliance as efforts to ensure business continuity

· Resilience as a future paradigm of holistic IT Governance.

In addition, this course fosters the following soft skills:

· Understanding of IT Governanceas a technical and business co-evolution

· Presentation skills

· Problem analysis

This is a block lecture, lasting one week from March 25^th to March 29^th, 2013. While the issues, theory,state of the art, and methods are presented by the lecturer, the students will be assigned special topics to deepen the presented material. These tasks can besolved in a group oriented mode, and must be presented at the class, where problem solution, presentation skill, as well as allowing and fostering a discussion amongst the class will form important factors of the evaluation.

Students are required work in teams to prepare one ½ hour presentation on a proposed topic amongst a list of topics (Downloads - topics to select)

Please register for one of the topics at the secretariat (wi-sek@wu.ac.at) of the Institute for Management information Systems

Presentations in the afternoons of Tuesday, 26th, Wednesday 27th or Thursday 28th March

(will be fixed on Monday, 25th March)

Performance will be evaluated according to following criteria:

· ½ hour Homework Presentation II(60% whereof 30% presentation, 70% problem solution)

Orand instead of homework

1 h written or oral test (100%)

· Mini-test of each presenter(40%, whereof 50% knowledge of state of the art of presentation, 50% content of answer

The following grading system is used:

· 90% - 100% = "Sehrgut"

· 80% - 89% = "Gut"

· 70% - 79% ="Befriedigend"

· 60% - 69% ="Genügend"

· Below 60% = "NichtGenügend"

positive Absolvierung Grundkurs 1 der SBWL MIS

oder

positive Absolvierung der Vertiefungskurse 1 und 2 der IT-Spezialisierung E-Commerce

Allocation of presentations

Please register for one of the topics at the secretariat (wi-sek@wu.ac.at) of the Institute for Management information Systems.