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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,that COBIT 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.
Associationmembers are able to purchase COBIT at a significant discount); (2) Make a generous donation to
the Information Systems Audit and Control Foundation, which sponsors the IT Governance Institute.
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 eachcomponent is provided below. Thank you for your interest and support of COBIT!
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Management Guidelines

Control Objectives

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
Performance Indicators. These Management Guidelines will help
answer the questions of immediate concern to all those who have a
stake in enterprise success.

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 todelineate a clear
policy and good practice for IT controls. 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

Implementation Tool Set

Sound business decisions are based on timely, relevant and concise information. Specificallydesigned for time-pressed senior
executives and managers, the COBIT Executive Summary consists
of an Executive Overview which explains COBIT’s key concepts
and principles.

An Implementation Tool Set, which contains Management
Awareness and IT Control Diagnostics, Implementation Guide,
frequently asked questions, case studies from organizations currently using COBIT and slide presentations thatcan be used to
introduce COBIT into organizations. The tool set is designed to
facilitate the implementation of COBIT, 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. TheFramework explains how IT processes
deliver the information that the business needs to achieve its
objectives. This delivery is 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 to fully support
the business objective.

Audit Guidelines
Analyze, assess, interpret, react, implement. To achieve your
desired goals and objectives you must constantly and consistently
audit your procedures. Audit Guidelines outlines and suggests
actual activities to...