IT AUDIT (COBIT)
COBIT helps bridge the gaps between business risks, control needs and technical issues. It provides good practices across a domain and process framework and presents activities in a manageable and logical structure.
COBIT:
• Starts from business requirements
• Is process-oriented, organisingIT activities into a generally accepted process model
• Identifies the major IT resources to be leveraged
• Defines the management control objectives to be considered
• Incorporates major international standards
• Has become the de factostandard for overall control of IT
How Does COBIT Help Implement Effective IT Governance?
COBIT brings the following advantages to an IT governance implementation effort:
- Enables mapping of IT goals to business goals and vice versa
- Better alignment, based on a business focus
- A view of what IT does that is understandable to management
- Clear ownership and responsibilities based on process orientation
- General acceptability with third parties and regulators
- Shared understanding amongst all stakeholders, based on a common language
- Fulfilment of the COSO requirements for the IT control environment
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