COBIT and IT Governance Foundations
Objectives:
- Describe the goals of IT Governance and the relationships with Corporate and Business Governance
- List the activities of IT Governance
- Justify the need for effective IT Governance
- Use the international standard for IT Governance, ISO 38500:2008 to advise and guide senior management on their responsibilities
- Outline reports, standards and frameworks that contribute to IT governance
- Explain the scope, structure and objectives of the COBIT® Framework including details of the COBIT® domains and processes, the COBIT® information criteria and IT resources
- Recognize how COBIT® is used to implement IT Processes to meet IT Goals that deliver Business Goals
- Identify the key stages in implementation of IT Governance based on COBIT®
- Make use of Case Studies on COBIT® implementation
- Recognize the wealth of resources on COBIT® particularly from ISACA
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This training session is aimed at IT Service Professionals, IT Consultants, IT Auditors, IT Directors and IT-aware Business managers and others who need to address one or more of the following concerns:
- Is it your goal to make your IT department more aligned with business requirements?
- Are you tasked with meeting regulatory and statutory requirements or government targets that demand IT services are properly directed, organized and controlled?
- Are you seeking to implement an IT Governance framework that is compatible with industry best practices for IT Service Management (ITIL®), international standards for Information Security (ISO 27000 series) and Project Management methodologies such as PRINCE2® or PMBOK
- Have you read that many businesses are using ISO 38500:2008 to advise senior management and are adopting COBIT® as their approach to IT Governance and now want to gain an understanding of both ISO 38500:2008 and COBIT® and their relationship with and dependency on other best practices
Outline:
IT Governance
- Activities of IT Governance
- Justify the need for effective IT Governance
- Cadbury Report - the start of corporate governance
- Turnbull report - risk management
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act - corporate governance regulation
- Basel II - operational risk
- European MiFID - operational risk
- Gershon Report - efficiency in government
- Reports, standards and frameworks that contribute to IT governance
- Deming, GQM, EFQM, ISO 9000 - underlying quality models
- ITIL® - IT service management
- ISO 27000 series - information security management
- Information Security Forum (ISF) - information security best practice
- Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) - extended ITIL
- ISO 20000 - standard for IT service management
- CMM® - IT process maturity
- PRINCE2® - project management
- PMBoK - project management
- Balanced scorecard (BSC) and IT Balanced Scorecard - management systems for strategy and performance
- Treadway Commission: COSO - effective internal control
- Application Services Library (ASL) - applications management
- ISO 38500:2008 Corporate governance of information technology
- The COBIT® Framework - IT governance and IT audit framework
- Val IT™ - based on COBIT®
ISO 38500:2008 in detail and COBIT® Introduction
- ISO 38500
- Principles
- Model
- Guidance
- COBIT®
- Origins and Objectives
- Focus areas
- Stakeholders
COBIT® 4.1 Details - 1
- Basic COBIT Principle
- Structure - the 3 views:
- Business requirements
- IT resources
- 4 Domains and 34 Processes
- COBIT® Processes in depth
COBIT® 4.1 Details - 2
- High Level and Detailed Control Objectives
- Inputs, Outputs
- RACI charts
- Goals and Metrics: Performance Indicators and Outcome Measures
- Maturity Models
COBIT® Resources and Implementation Approach ®
- COBIT® Documentation and Resources
- COBIT® Online - tool demonstration
- Implementation Roadmap
- Outline Implementation approach
- Case studies of organizations that have implemented COBIT
Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total
tuition hours:-
30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
Certificates
A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.
Schedule
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Fees
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: