This chapter presents risks, controls, and tests of controls related to IT governance. It opens by defining IT governance and the elements of IT governance that have internal control and financial reporting implications. First, it presents the exposures that can arise from inappropriate structuring of the IT function. Next, the chapter reviews computer center threats and controls, which include protecting it from damage and destruction from natural disasters, fire, temperature, and humidity. The chapter then presents the key elements of a disaster recovery plan, including providing second-site backup, identifying critical applications, performing backup and off-site storage procedures, creating a disaster recovery team, and testing the plan. The final section of the chapter presents issues concerning the growing trend toward IT outsourcing. The logic behind management decisions to outsource is explored. The chapter also reveals the expected benefits and the risks associated with outsourcing. The chapter concludes with a discussion of audit issues in an outsourcing environment and the role of the SAS 70 report.