IT Strategy and Control: Cloud Computing, ITIL, COBIT, and Network Security

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Answer to Question 1:
With the implementation of cloud computing, the performance of the organization
will get developed. Cloud service provides better way of storing the information with highest
security (Arpaci et al. 2015). The cloud computing decreases the cost and saves for every
organization. There are several architectures provided by the cloud service. According to the
need of customer, the organization can adopt cloud service. Moreover, cloud computing
offers their customer with the facility of paying as per their use. The organization can choose
PaaS architecture for their cloud service. This is designed for the companies that aims at
developing application or setting their application and aims at deploying these applications
within their cloud server (Bowers and Morse 2018). This is the best realistic strategy and will
help the organization in gaining more profit. With the help of IT service management
terminology, the organization can implement the cloud easily.
With the implementation of these five stages of ITIL, the organization can
implement the strategy. ITIL stands for information technology infrastructure library and this
has gained great importance in the managing the IT services (Al Mourad and Hussain 2014).
Thus, this strategy will eventually help the organization in storing and managing the
information well. There are total five stages of ITIL, this are as follows:
 Service strategy
 Service design
 Service operation
 Service transition
 Continual service improvement
With the implementation off ITIL, there are some features offered by these and are
important. The metrics that will help to determine the better performance are as follows:

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 Services: this involves delivering a better product and service within the time.
 Service management: this includes rules that will be followed by the employee while
delivering a product to their customers.
 Value, utility and warranty: this is very much necessary to value customer’s feedback
and provide their services within the time. This is also necessary to utilize all the
rights assure by the organization towards their customer. Moreover, there is a
warranty provided towards the customers and it is the responsibility of the
organization to change or refund the product in case any problem occurs.
 Capabilities: this is referred to the feature that involves organizing and adding value
to the resources generated by the organization.
Answer to Question 2:
COBIT aims at collecting the important information for an organization and providing
this information to the required one. The main objective is to manage the IT resources with
the help of a natural grouped process (Huygh et al. 2018). There are basically two types of
COBIT, this are COBIT 4.1 and COBIT 5. The difference between these two are as follows:
 COBIT 4 is an IT Model whereas COBIT 5 is a IT governance and management
framework for IT enterprise.
 COBIT 5 includes ITIL, COSO, TOGAF, ISO 27000, ISO 38500 and many more
where CBOIT 4 does not include this features.
 COBIT 4 was introduced in 2004 and this was the early version with minimal features
and with the aim of providing and IT model to its users (Saputro, Utnami and Al Fatta
2018). The release of COBIT 5 has updated and removed all the problems faced while
working with COBIT 4.

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These frameworks are effective for enterprises as these helps in meeting the needs of
the stakeholders and also strategies plan that will help in meeting the goal of enterprise. The
implementation COBIT within an organization is necessary as it helps to understand the
needs of stakeholders and also allows to set a generic goal for their customer. These goals set
by the enterprise can be developed with the help of a balanced scorecard dimensions. This
will help to understand and meet the goal. COBIT 5 is being developed based on the previous
version of COBIT that includes Val IT and Risk IT. This will help the organization to create
value for their stakeholders and will also create for governance objective (Nugraha, Winarno
and Al Fatta 2018). This is necessary for an organization to choose COBIT as these will help
to meet the goal set by the organization. This also ensures the needs of stakeholders and
prepares strategy to meet their needs and also monitors the activity of the stakeholders.
Management plans, runs, builds and monitors the activities that are set by the governance
body.
IT control framework is necessary for organization as this helps to manage the
traffics. It Control framework is exactly like a co-ordinated traffic light. This framework is in
form of data structure that is used to organize and categorize all the internal controls of
organization. This helps to minimize the risk and create more value towards the business.
Answer to Question 3:
Network security plan:
There is a need to develop a security plan that will protect the network from threats,
risks and intruders (Benson and Rahman 2015). The organization needs to develop a list of
points that will include points before entering into the network. The organization needs to
create a security policy and everyone associated with the network needs to follow this. There
is a need to include policy that will be used to maintain the confidentiality of the information