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#1

“Innovation is the process of transforming an idea or concept into a functional and marketable value proposition reflecting creative opportunity.”
― Robert E. Davis

tags: adapting, digital-transformations, governance, innovation, value-proposition

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#2

“Developing and implementing IT governance design effectiveness and efficiency can be a multidirectional, interactive, iterative, and adaptive process.”
― Robert E. Davis, IT Auditing: IT Governance

tags: decision-making, feedback-control, internal-control-systems, monitoring, objectives, policy-enforcement, policy-formation

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#3

“To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.”
― Robert E. Davis

tags: cyber-security, firewall, isms, mis, network-security, risk-management

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#4

“Laws continue to be enacted, and the regulatory environment has become more complex due to unacceptable conduct remediation. Consequently, entities continue to be compelled to demonstrate compliance with legal mandates through documented assurance assessments.”
― Robert E. Davis, Assuring IT Legal Compliance

tags: assurance, audit, compliance, governance, practices, procedures, regulations

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#5

“Information technology (IT) assets must be protected from external and internal activities detrimental to effective and efficient functionality.”
― Robert E. Davis, Ensuring Information Assets Protection

tags: iap, information-assets-protection, information-security-governance, information-security-management, isg, ism

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#6

“As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.”
― Robert E. Davis

tags: applications, assurance-service, audit-assurance, cia, cica, cisa, citp, compliance-testing, configuration-item, files, information-asset, information-technology, infrastructure, it-audit-project, program

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#7

“Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected benefits.”
― Robert E. Davis

tags: economics, management-structures, politics, technology

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#8

“Potential stakeholders usually rely upon governance elements prior to investing their time, talent, and/or money.”
― Robert E. Davis, IT Auditing: Assuring Information Assets Protection

tags: governance, governance-tree, information-security-governance, isg, it-governance

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#9

“Since knowledge and ideas are an important part of cultural heritage, social interaction and business transactions, they retain a special value for many societies. Logically, if the associated electronically formatted information is valued, preventive and detective measures are necessary to ensure minimum organizational impact from an IPR security breach.”
― Robert E. Davis, IT Auditing: Assuring Information Assets Protection

tags: governance, governance-tree, information-security-governance, isg, it-governance, itg

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#10

“Information is a significant component of most organizations’ competitive strategy either by the direct collection, management, and interpretation of business information or the retention of information for day-to-day business processing. Some of the more obvious results of IS failures include reputational damage, placing the organization at a competitive disadvantage, and contractual noncompliance. These impacts should not be underestimated.”
― The IIA Research Foundation

tags: cyber-security, information-assets-protection, information-security-governance, information-security-management

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#11

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
― Whitney M. Young Jr., Beyond Racism, Building an Open Society

tags: motivational-quotes

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#12

“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: laws, morals, physics, universe, values

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#13

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational

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#14

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges

2928 likes

#15

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: education, future

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#16

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X

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#17

“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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#18

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational-faith

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#19

“Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”
― Mary McLeod Bethune

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#20

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lena Horne

tags: lena-horne

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#21

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.”
― Harriet Tubman

tags: inspirational

747 likes

#22

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#23

“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
― Malcolm X

tags: activism

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#24

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7682 likes

#25

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

tags: hate, hatred

466 likes

#26

“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.”
― Paul Robeson

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#27

“I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.”
― Josephine Baker

tags: equality

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#28

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11252 likes

#29

“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody -
a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns -
bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”
― Thurgood Marshall

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#30

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

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