COBIT provides managers, auditors, and IT users with a set of generally accepted measures, indicators, processes and best practices to assist them in maximizing the benefits derived through the use of information technology and developing appropriate IT governance and control in a company.
COBIT has 34 high level processes that cover 210 control objectives categorized in four domains: Planning and Organization, Acquisition and Implementation, Delivery and Support, and Monitoring.
Benefits
COBIT provides benefits to managers, IT users, and auditors. Managers benefit from COBIT because it provides them with a foundation upon which IT related decisions and investments can be based.
Decision making is more effective because COBIT aids management in defining a strategic IT plan, defining the information architecture, acquiring the necessary IT hardware and software to execute an IT strategy, ensuring continuous service, and monitoring the performance of the IT system.
IT users benefit from COBIT because of the assurance provided to them by COBIT's defined controls, security, and process governance. COBIT benefits auditors because it helps them identify IT control issues within a company’s IT infrastructure. It also helps them corroborate their audit findings.
Who should attend
The participants could be responsible for IT Process & Compliance in any of the following positions within their organization:
- CEO / CFO / CIO / CTO / CISO
- Finance Manager/ Finance Controller
- Financial Process Consultants
- Information Security Managers / Officers
- System Administrators
- IT Support Staff
- IT Consultants
- IT Developers
- IT Management
- Process Consultants
- Process Managers
- Quality Assurance Professionals
- Risk & Compliance Professionals
- IT Service Providers
- IT Service Management Professionals
- Internal & External Audit Management teams
- Sarbanes-Oxley Implementation teams
- COBIT Implementation teams
- IT Auditors
- Key Business Users
Course Outline
Day One
Introduction to COBIT Framework
- Waterfall model adopted by COBIT
- Reading of control objectives to processes
- Mapping the controls to processes which are further linked to business objectives
COBIT to Other frameworks (Mapped)
- Mapping of COBIT control objectives and processes to other international standards:
- CMMI® for Development V1.2
- ITIL
- ISO/IEC 17799: 2005
- Overview of International IT Guidance
Case Study
- UsingCOBIT for continual improvement of IT value and control
- Application of COBIT
- Implementation of COBIT
Day Two
Implementing IT Governance using COBIT
- Proven and standardized implementation roadmap to guide an IT governance implementation using COBIT
- Understand ITGI’s approach to an IT governance implementation based on the IT Governance Implementation Guide, 2nd Edition
- Understand the implementation road map and how COBIT and Val IT support each step of the implementation
- Scope and plan IT governance initiatives based on COBIT and Val IT
- Assess process capability using COBIT maturity models
- Plan improvements using control objectives and control practices
- Create a performance measurement framework using COBIT metrics and the balanced scorecard
- Sustain the IT governance implementation
- Consider practical implementation factors
- COBIT implementation support from ISACA
Case Study
- Adopt an IT governance framework to provide its operations with a uniformed platform to sustain growth and eliminate risks
- IT Governance: Pan-regional strategy formation, uniformity
- Cost-cutting: Trims repetition
- Security: Managing regional customer data
- Outsourcing: Provides proper liabilities for outsourcing partners
- Communication: Easy to understand terminology for wide range of corporation audiences
- Business Growth: Provides a safer, more coherent overall IT environment for leaders to focus on value-adding solutions
- Risk Assessment: Sets boundaries for decision-makers to understand what they can do
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