Im Prozessmanagement stehen uns eine Reihe von Frameworks zur Qualitätsbeurteilung von Prozessen zur Verfügung. Nachstehend einige Beispiele:

1. AICPA/ CICA Trust services, principles, and criteria
2. Carnegie mellon university software engineering institute (CMU/SEI) OCTAVE
3. CICA CoCo – criteria of control framework
4. CICA IT control guidelines
5. CMMI – capability maturity model integration
6. CobiT – control objectives for information and related technology
7. COSO – internal control integrated framework
8. GAISP – generally accepted information security
9. ISF standard of good practice for information security
10. ISO 17799:2005
11. ISO 9000
12. ITIL – the IT infrastructure library
13. Malcolm baldridge national quality program
14. Organization for economic cooperation and development (OCEB) principles of corporate governance
15. OPMMM – organizational project management maturity model
16. Six Sigma
17. Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) guidelines on the protection of privacy and transborder flows of personal data
18. 18.Recommended security controls for federal information systems, NIST SP 800-53
19. The FFIEC information technology examination handbook series