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COB200: Implementing COBIT™ for IT Management and Governance

CPE credits: 14.0 (This two-day seminar can be modified to be presented as an overview one-day session, CPE will be adjusted accordingly)

Description: Success in any organization has many factors, the least of which is proper management of resources. For most organizations, one of the largest and least managed resources is Information Technology. As a manager, it is critical to know the business impacts and resource requirements and utilization of all processes as well as returns based on those processes. Proper resource allocation and management is one of the five defined areas of governance along with strategic alignment, value addition, risk mitigation and measurement. Session participants will learn what governance should entail and how it can be implemented using the COBIT framework.

Audience: This seminar is intended for organizational and IT management including anyone in the decision making and oversight processes for managing IT resources. Additional beneficiaries could include internal and external audit professionals, C-Level managers and decision makers. Security Officers, Controllers and their management, InfoSec professionals, operations managers, and anyone interested in obtaining a better understanding of the requirements necessary for identifying, developing and maintaining a viable and successful enterprise-wide IT governance initiative.

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisite for this seminar.

Objectives: After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

Understand the appropriate approach to implementation of governance practices using the implementation roadmap.
Understand how COBIT supports the implementation of governance practices.
Scope and plan IT governance initiatives.
Assess process capability and maturity.
Identify needs using KPI’s and KGI’s.
Plan improvements using control objectives and control practices.
Create performance measurement framework using COBIT’s measures and balanced scorecard
Sustain IT governance practices
Consider practical implementation strategies
Understand of implementation support resources.

Course Outline:

Introduction to IT Governance Implementation and COBIT

Identify Needs

Scoping the use of COBIT

Envision the Solution

Analyzing process maturity and identifying gaps

Plan Solution

Improvement strategies, defining projects & change plan

Implement Solution

Production & Measure performance

Building Sustainability

Governance organization and processes

This seminar is based on materials from COBIT Version 4 which is owned and provided by ISACA and ITGI.

This seminar will be taught by Donald F Caniglia, CISA, CISM, FLMI

Mr. Caniglia has been providing Information Systems Audit, financial/operational audit, information security consulting services and IS Audit and security training primarily to the financial services industry for more than 30 years. He has been a Certified Systems Auditor since 1984 and recently awarded the Certified Information Security Manager designation from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). He has better than 18 years direct experience in Banking and S&L operational Audit, IS Audit, Systems Support and Information Security, with the last several years providing IS Audit, Security and Compliance services to Community Banks.

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