Information Quality Management is an information technology (IT) management discipline, which encompasses the COBIT

COBIT

COBIT is a framework created by ISACA for information technology management and IT Governance. It is a supporting toolset that allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues and business risks.-Overview:...

 Information Criteria

Information Criteria

Information Criteria are a core component of the COBIT Framework that describes the intent of the objectives, namely the control of:Effectiveness deals with information being relevant and pertinent to the business process as well as being delivered in a timely,correct, consistent and usable...

 of efficiency, effectiveness, confidentiality, integrity, availability, compliance, and reliability. The idea is for companies to have the risks of using a program diminished to protect private and sensitive information.

It is held by some that the separation of software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

, infrastructure management, and information security

Information security

Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....

management leads to difficulties and failures. These failures occur especially when communication is needed between these two sectors

The future

Thus, leading edge companies are starting to integrate these information quality management disciplines along with the discipline of information risk management. These two disciplines ensure that Software Engineering Frameworks of the future have established information security controls in place before the project commences.