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COBIT Publications and Products
The components of COBIT each address uses and applications of COBIT from differing perspectives. From the framework, which outlines the basis of the COBIT philosophy, to the management guidelines, which addresses the concerns of upper management, and through all the other components, each component adds a unique layer of understanding to COBIT.
COBIT is an IT governance framework and supporting toolset that allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues and business risks. COBIT enables clear policy development and good practice for IT control throughout organizations. COBIT emphasizes regulatory compliance, helps organizations to increase the value attained from IT, enables alignment and simplifies implementation of the COBIT framework.
COBIT 4.1 is available as a complimentary PDF download (registration required) and for purchase in print through the bookstore.
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Executives & Boards
- Practices
- Responsibilities
Presents IT governance concepts, roles and responsibilities with checklists and tools to help management initiate and sustain an effective IT governance program. Specific attention is given to the IT strategy committee.
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Business and Technology Management
- Business, IT, Process Goals
- Performance & Goal Measures
- Inputs & Outputs
- Activities, Roles & Responsibilities
- Maturity Models
- Management Guidelines
COBIT helps provide answers to typical management questions:
- How far should we go in controlling IT, and is the cost justified by the benefit?
- What are the indicators of good performance?
- What are the key management practices to apply?
- What do others do?
- How do we measure and compare?
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Board Briefing on IT Governance, 2nd Edition—Helps executives understand why IT governance is important, what its issues are and what their responsibility is for managing it.
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Information Security Governance: Guidance for Boards of Directors and Executive Management, 2nd Edition—Presents information security in business terms and contains tools and techniques to help uncover security-related problems.
- Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments—The Val IT Framework explains how an enterprise can extract optimal value from IT-enabled investments and is based on the COBIT framework. It is organised into:
- Three processes—Value Governance, Portfolio Management and Investment Management
- IT key management practices—Essential management practices that positively influence the achievement of the desired result or purpose of a particular activity. They support the Val IT processes and play roughly the same role as do COBIT’s control objectives.
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Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments—The Business Case, which focuses on one key element of the investment management process
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Framework—Explains how COBIT organises IT governance management and control objectives and good practices by IT domains and processes, and links them to business requirements
- Process descriptions—Includes 34 IT processes covering the IT responsibility areas from beginning to end
- Control objectives—Provide generic best practice management objectives for IT processes
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Management guidelines—Offer tools to help assign responsibility, measure performance, and benchmark and address gaps in capability
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Maturity models—Provide profiles of IT processes describing possible current and future states
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COBIT Control Practices: Guidance to Achieve Control Objectives for Successful IT Governance, 2nd Edition—Provides guidance on why controls are worth implementing and how to implement them
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IT Governance Implementation Guide: Using COBIT and Val IT, 2nd Edition—Provides a generic road map for implementing IT governance using COBIT and Val IT™ resources
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COBIT Online—Allows users to customise a version of COBIT for their own enterprise, then store and manipulate that version as desired. It offers online, real-time surveys, frequently asked questions, benchmarking and a discussion facility for sharing experiences and questions.
- COBIT Security Baseline—Focuses on essential steps for implementing information security within the enterprise. The second edition is in development at the time of this writing.
- COBIT Training—Several COBIT-related courses are offered including a COBIT exam.
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COBIT Quickstart—Provides a baseline of control for the smaller organisation and a possible first step for the larger enterprise
- Aligning COBIT, ITIL and ISO 17799 for Business Benefit
- COBIT Mapping: Overview of International IT Guidance, 2nd Edition
- COBIT Mapping: Mapping of ISO/IEC 17799:2000 With COBIT, 2nd Edition
- COBIT Mapping: Mapping of PMBOK With COBIT 4.0
- COBIT Mapping: Mapping of SEI’s CMM for Software With COBIT 4.0
- COBIT Mapping: Mapping of ITIL With COBIT 4.0
- COBIT Mapping: Mapping of PRINCE2 With COBIT 4.0
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IT Assurance Guide: Using COBIT—Provides guidance on how COBIT can be used to support a variety of assurance activities together with suggested testing steps for all the IT processes and control objectives.
- COBIT Assurance Course—Further information to come.
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IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition—This publication provides CIOs, IT managers, and control and assurance professionals with scoping and assessment ideas, approaches and guidance in support of the IT-related Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) internal control objectives for financial reporting.
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IT Governance Using COBIT and Val IT—A set of educational materials that professors and teachers can use to explain and present COBIT in their courses on information systems management, information security management, information systems auditing and/or accounting information systems. This educational package was constructed using the advice and counsel of a global group of academics and practitioners. The purpose was to create a more focused approach for teaching and presenting COBIT in the classroom. It is available to all professors who pledge to share their own COBIT teaching materials. The set includes the following material:
- Student Book, to share with students either in print or electronically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Case Study
- Caselets
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Framework—Explains how COBIT organises IT governance management and control objectives and good practices by IT domains and processes, and links them to business requirements
- Process descriptions—Includes 34 IT processes covering the IT responsibility areas from beginning to end
- Control objectives—Provide generic best practice management objectives for IT processes
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Management guidelines—Offer tools to help assign responsibility, measure performance, and benchmark and address gaps in capability
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Maturity models—Provide profiles of IT processes describing possible current and future states
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Audit, Control & Security Professional
What is the IT governance framework?
How do we implement it in the enterprise?
How do we assess the IT governance framework?
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Academia
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