IT is critical to many organizations' success ensuring quality, effectiveness and efficiency in the business' processes and competitive advantages. Today IT becomes part of the business processes. In a complex and competitive world, characterized in the last years by deep changes, instability and incertitude, the quality of the company strategy and its alignment with IT strategy becomes a milestone. Due to the importance of IT to the overall business, the IT specific risks can induce failure to achieve strategic objectives. Adopting an integrated view of IT risk represents a milestone of the risk management process. The present paper presents the authors' research results regarding the importance of the IT and business strategy alignment, the necessity to built a global IT risk solution and manage all the risks, no matter of their nature, in a holistic approach, underlying the impact of the inadequate IT risk management on the organizations' activity.