Supporting Applications Development and Operation Using IT Security and Audit Measures

The market success of the enterprises depends on the ability to support their business processes. This involves the requirement of a seamless, well-ordered operation of the whole company. Operation is greatly afiected by the quality of its IT support. The information should be available, handled confidentially, preserving its integrity, have to be processed in a reliable, eficient, efiective way, in compliance with the requirements of supervisory authorities. Extending the scope of these information criteria to criteria determining operations quality and adding two business-level requirements to them makes possible to find preventive, detective and corrective, originally information security control measures, raised to the level of operational quality, that support the market success of the institutions.