Cobit Seminario Sistemas

The IT Governance Institute® is pleased to offer you this complimentary download of COBIT®.
COBIT provides good practices for the management of IT processes in a manageable and logical structure, meeting the multiple needs of enterprise management by bridging the gaps between business risks, technical issues, control needs and performance measurement requirements. If you believe as we do, thatCOBIT enables the development of clear policy and good practices for IT control throughout your organisation, we invite you to support ongoing COBIT research and development. There are two ways in which you may express your support: (1) Purchase COBIT through the association (ISACA) Bookstore (please see the following pages for order form and association membership application. Association membersare able to purchase COBIT at a significant discount); (2) Make a generous donation to the IT Governance Institute, which conducts research and authors COBIT. The complete COBIT package consists of all six publications, an ASCII text diskette, four COBIT implementation/ orientation Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and a CD-ROM. A brief overview of each component is provided below. Thank youfor your interest in and support of COBIT! For additional information about the IT Governance Institute, visit www.itgi.org. Management Guidelines
To ensure a successful enterprise, you must effectively manage the union between business processes and information systems. The new Management Guidelines is composed of maturity models, critical success factors, key goal indicators and key performanceindicators. These Management Guidelines will help answer the questions of immediate concern to all those who have a stake in enterprise success.

Control Objectives
The key to maintaining profitability in a technologically changing environment is how well you maintain control. COBIT’s Control Objectives provides the critical insight needed to delineate a clear policy and good practice for ITcontrols. Included are the statements of desired results or purposes to be achieved by implementing the 318 specific, detailed control objectives throughout the 34 high-level control objectives.

Executive Summary
Sound business decisions are based on timely, relevant and concise information. Specifically designed for time-pressed senior executives and managers, the COBIT Executive Summaryexplains COBIT’s key concepts and principles.

Implementation Tool Set
The Implementation Tool Set contains management awareness and IT control diagnostics, implementation guide, frequently asked questions, case studies from organizations currently using COBIT and slide presentations that can be used to introduce COBIT into organizations. The tool set is designed to facilitate the implementation ofCOBIT, relate lessons learned from organizations that quickly and successfully applied COBIT in their work environments and assist management in choosing implementation options.

Framework
A successful organization is built on a solid framework of data and information. The Framework explains how IT processes deliver the information that the business needs to achieve its objectives. This deliveryis controlled through 34 high-level control objectives, one for each IT process, contained in the four domains. The Framework identifies which of the seven information criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, confidentiality, integrity, availability, compliance and reliability), as well as which IT resources (people, applications, technology, facilities and data) are important for the IT processes tofully support the business objective.

CD-ROM
The CD-ROM, which contains all of COBIT, is published as a Folio infobase. The material is accessed using Folio Views®, which is a high-performance, information retrieval software tool. Access to COBIT’s text and graphics is now easier than ever, with flexible keyword searching and built-in index links (optional purchase). A network version...