Seminar "Fundamentals of CobiT (Cobit Foundation Course) is designed for owners, board members and senior managers, for managers of IT services and IT auditors.

International standard of corporate information technology CobiT helps align business and IT strategy, to build a dialogue between the leaders of business units and the Director of Information Services. Expected results of the implementation processes CobiT:

• Reliability and validity of financial data of the organization. Compliance with the financial statements.
• Alignment of business strategy and IT
• Optimal use of IT budget

Duration of Seminar: 1 Day (8:00)

The aim of the seminar. Familiarity with the international standard CobiT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology), its structure, approaches, practices used to achieve business goals using information technology, organization IT processes, IT and risk management of IT audit.

Help in making a decision on the applicability of the standard CobiT in a particular organization, familiarity with the processes of IT management vision to achieve business goals using information technology.

The seminar program

• Management of corporate IT resources. IT Governance.
• Assigning standard CobiT. The content and purpose of the monitoring of IT management processes.
• CobiT approach to the control of IT management processes:
• Process model of CobiT.
• Links business goals and IT.
• Communication processes CobiT and other components of the approach.
• Maturity model of the internal control processes of IT management.
• Application of the approach and process models to control CobiT IT governance practices in Russia.

Information about the standard CobiT. Standard developed by the International Association of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and the Institute of IT (IT Governance Institute). CobiT is based on best international practices of corporate information technology, as well as ITIL, CMM / CMMI, ISO 9000, PMBoK and ISO 17799.

• CobiT offers a number of practical recommendations in the following areas:
• Aligning business objectives and the use of IT. The use of the advantages and opportunities offered by IT for business capitalization growth and competitiveness. Linking business and IT goals, providing metrics for monitoring and evaluation.
• The organization of management on the basis of generally accepted IT process model.
• Assessment of the quality of IT management. Defining the purpose of monitoring.
• Optimizing IT investments. Definition of IT resources in need of expansion. Ensuring transparency of IT investment and evaluation.
  Making optimum use of IT resources: applications, data, infrastructure and personnel.
• Audit of IT processes. Information security. Risk management is the use of IT.