One example of that can be seen in how IBM has responded to the challenge of employees using their personal devices for work. By setting the IT risk department up to find solutions, not veto plans, IBM was able to securely move ahead with many new initiatives, including a . Lovejoy, who had previously been vice president of security strategy at IBM, says that instead of waiting until BYOD was planned out, she and her team got involved at the start. In fact, her department helped create the business case for letting employees do this. By the end of the first year, the initiative was supporting 100,000 devices. This allowed employees to use social media to further IBM's business agenda, and to adopt cloud computing on a wide scale.

To change the culture of IT risk, Lovejoy restructured it around a new model. At the heart of that model is the IT Risk Map, which is reassessed quarterly and considers:

Security and privacy

IT compliance

Supply chain risk