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Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology COBIT5

Because of the rapidly changing IT landscape, businesses and industry leaders constantly face the challenge of managing and governing their complex information technology infrastructure. It can be overwhelming. The fact is IT and business roles are changing. More and more people in the business world will require IT skills and be involved in IT decisions and procedures. Both IT and business will need to work together to improve business processes. COBIT, or control objectives for IT, helps navigate the challenge of providing information assurance, security, and risk mitigation. COBIT is a set of IT principles and provides a best-practice framework designed to safeguard the privacy and security of company-specific data, such as trade secrets and personnel information, to ensure value to its stakeholders. COBIT divides the framework into four domains that include

• Plan and organize.
• Acquire and implement.
• Deliver and support.
• Monitor and evaluate.

 

The COBIT 5 framework helps improve user satisfaction of IT services and creates value through the effective use of IT and stay in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. The five COBIT principles are as follows. 

• Meeting stakeholder needs.
• Covering the enterprise end to end.
• Applying a single integrated framework.
• Enabling a holistic approach.
• Separating governance from management.

 

COBIT guidelines help security professionals effectively manage and protect their information, which has significantly increased over the past few decades. A company needs to provide the most effective benefits at the most acceptable level of risk at the most reasonable cost. COBIT helps to provide direction and innovation in emerging technologies and stresses the importance of managing a solid life cycle. Plan, design, build, use, monitor, update, or dissolve. COBIT is a framework that helps navigate the challenge of providing information assurance, security, and risk mitigation.

 

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