Strategic plans provide the basis for ensuring that the enterprise meets its goals and objectives. Involvement of senior management is critical to ensuring that the plan adequately addresses the established goals and objectives. IS policies, procedures, standards and guidelines are all structured to support the overall strategic plan.

Section: Protection of Information Assets
Explanation:
In case of a disruption in service, one of the key functions of network performance monitoring tools is to ensure that the information has remained unaltered. It is a function of security monitoring to assure confidentiality by using such tools as encryption. However, the most important aspect of network performance is assuring the ongoing dependence on connectivity to run the business. Therefore, the characteristic that benefits the most from network monitoring is availability.

Section: Protection of Information Assets
Explanation:
The use of SQL facilitates portability. Verification of import and export procedures with other systems
ensures better interfacing with other systems, analyzing stored procedures/triggers ensures proper access/
performance, and reviewing the design entity- relation model will be helpful, but none of these contribute to
the portability of an application connecting to a database.