COBIT Awareness

Course Summary:

This or 1 day COBIT Awareness Seminar introduces the importance of IT governance and the need for an IT control framework within the enterprise that bridges the gap among business risks, control needs, and technical issues. COBIT is increasingly being accepted and adopted as a good practice for control over information, IT and related risks. Its guidance enables an enterprise to implement effective governance over IT.

Course Objectives:

Attendees learn how COBIT provides good practices across a domain and process framework that presents activities in a manageable and logical structure. In addition, the course provides information on how COBIT is related to other frameworks, such as ITIL, Six Sigma, CMMI, ISO/IEC 17799, and COSO.

Audience:

•  Senior IT Management

•  Key Business Leaders

•  Senior IT Professionals

•  IT Staff

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the COBIT Awareness Seminar, you will be able to:

• Identify how IT management issues affect organizations
• Recognize the need for a control framework driven by the need for IT governance
• The role of IT in Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
• Identify how COBIT meets the requirement for an IT governance framework
• Understand the elements of the COBIT Framework
• Identify how COBIT is used with other standards and best practices
• COBIT for financial accounting
• The importance of compliance teams, business and application process owners
• Create a performance measurement framework using COBIT s metrics
• Suggestions when considering implementing COBIT