In compliance by design, chong EE will show you how your organization can benefit from becoming compliant with the relevant National and international standards. You will discover how integrating controls into your processes will improve your security, increase your productivity, save you time and money, and increase your profits. Drawing on personal experience and using up-to-date, practical examples, The book considers the elements and principles of controls, and offers strategies to put them in place. It will show you how to: implement changes that will improve your processes allay fears and overcome resistance from your stakeholders integrate controls into your everyday processes achieve synergy from interconnected processes assess your priorities and handle conflicting objectives analyse and manage risks establish a system of controls that is right for your business manage your technology to make it work for you. Moving away from traditional efforts traditional efforts in attaining or sustaining it compliance employ an outside-looking-in approach, characterized by capturing varied compliance requirements and/or frameworks and applying these within the organisation. This book advocates an inside-looking-out approach, emphasizing fundamental ideas of good control design as the basis for developing effective and sustainable it compliance strategies. Tools and techniques intended to arm you with the tools and techniques to put in place the right system of internal controls, the focus is on it controls, but with plenty of references to business and entity controls, too.