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Cincinnati Tech-Security ConferenceWhen: Thuresday, December 13th, 2012
Time: 8:15am - 4:00pm
Place: Hyatt Regency Cincinnati
151 West Fifth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA45202
The conference will have 8 companies speaking on various Tech-Security
topics such as email security, compliance, network security and more,
as well as a vendor exhibit area. There will be giveaways of
10-15 prizes like iPods, $25, $50, and $100 gift cards from Best Buy,
Visa, AMEX, Bose headphones, and other similar prizes. Breakfast
and a full lunch will be provided.
This conference counts for CPEs.
Click here to register.
ISACA Issues COBIT 5 Governance Framework
Rolling Meadows, IL (10 April 2012)—ISACA
today released COBIT 5, the only business framework for the governance
and management of enterprise IT. The new version of COBIT promotes
seamless continuity between an enterprise’s IT department and its
overall business goals, and represents a major evolution of the
globally accepted framework in use at enterprises worldwide for more
than 15 years. The COBIT 5 framework is available from ISACA—a
nonprofit global association of more than 95,000 IT governance
professionals—as a free download at www.isaca.org/cobit.
According to a recent global survey of more than 3,700 IT professionals
who are members of ISACA, nearly half of respondents’ enterprises (44
percent) are planning to increase their IT-related investments
selectively in the next 12 months, based on expected contribution to
business value. The survey also showed that 74 percent of executive
teams consider information and technology to be very important to the
delivery of the enterprise’s strategy and vision.
COBIT 5 provides globally accepted principles, practices, analytical
tools and models designed to help business and IT leaders maximize
trust in, and value from, their enterprise’s information and technology
assets. This update is the result of a four-year initiative led by a
global task force and has been reviewed by more than 95 experts
worldwide. To date, more than 16,000 professionals have preregistered
to receive a copy. The previous version of COBIT has been downloaded
more than 100,000 times.
“The advance interest in COBIT 5 has been overwhelming. It is clear
that enterprises everywhere are aggressively seeking guidance on how to
manage and ensure value from the growing mountain of information and
increasingly complex technologies they are grappling with,” said Derek
Oliver, Ph.D., CISA, CISM, CRISC, CITP, FBCS, FISM, MInstISP, and
co-chair of the COBIT 5 Task Force. “Information is the currency of the
21st century, and COBIT helps enterprises effectively govern and manage
this critical asset.”
How COBIT 5 Is Used
COBIT 5 can be tailored to meet an enterprise’s specific business
model, technology environment, industry, location and corporate
culture. Because of its open design, it can be applied to meet needs
related to:
- Information security
- Risk management
- Governance and management of enterprise IT
- Assurance activities
- Legislative and regulatory compliance
- Financial processing or CSR reporting
According to the ISACA survey, in the past 12 months:
• 48% of responding enterprises experienced project overruns
• 41% experienced a high cost of IT with a low or unknown return on investment
• 38% said there was a disconnect between business and IT strategies
• 22% experienced a security breach
• 21% reported challenges related to mobile device security
“COBIT 5 offers a much-needed common vocabulary and set of processes to
enlist stakeholders from across the organization—not just IT—in
considering the issues and impact of key business and technology issues
such as cloud computing, growth of mobile devices and BYOD (bring your
own device), data privacy and cybersecurity threats,” said John
Lainhart, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, CIPP/G, past international
president of ISACA and co-chair of the COBIT 5 Task Force. “Most people
wouldn’t venture into a major storm without protective gear like an
umbrella. Yet, that’s what enterprises do every day when they leave
their technology assets unprotected.”
Five Principles and Seven Enablers
This significant update of the COBIT framework simplifies governance
challenges with just five principles and seven enablers. The principles
are: 1) Meeting Stakeholder Needs, 2) Covering the Enterprise
End-to-end, 3) Applying a Single, Integrated Framework, 4) Enabling a
Holistic Approach, and 5) Separating Governance From Management. The
enablers, which help achieve enterprise goals, are: Processes;
Principles, Policies and Frameworks; Organisational Structures; People,
Skills and Competencies; Culture, Ethics and Behaviour; Services,
Infrastructure and Applications; and Information.
The new version of COBIT is also designed to integrate other approaches
and standards, including TOGAF, PMBOK, Prince2, COSO, ITIL, PCI DSS,
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel III.
COBIT 5 is available to all as a free-of-charge download at
www.isaca.org/cobit. ISACA also today released COBIT 5: Enabling
Processes (free to ISACA members and US $134 for nonmembers) and COBIT
5 Implementation (free to ISACA members and US $50 for nonmembers),
which help framework users apply the guidance. Print editions of all
three guides are available for purchase from the ISACA Bookstore
(www.isaca.org/bookstore). Full survey results are available at
http://COBIT5presskit.isaca.org.
Editors Note
Related infographic, full survey results and spokesperson video are available at http://COBIT5presskit.isaca.org.
About ISACA
With 95,000 constituents worldwide, ISACA (www.isaca.org) is a leading
global provider of knowledge, certifications, community, advocacy and
education on information systems assurance and security, enterprise
governance and management of IT, and IT-related risk and compliance.
Founded in 1969, the nonprofit ISACA offers the CISA®, CISM®, CGEIT®
and CRISC™ designations. ISACA developed COBIT 5, a business framework
for the governance and management of enterprise IT.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISACANews
LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/ISACAOfficial
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ISACAHQ
ISACA Knowledge Center: www.isaca.org/knowledge–center
Contacts:
Kristen Kessinger, +1.847.660.5512, news@isaca.org
Joanne Duffer, +1.847.660.5564, news@isaca.org
Marv Gellman, +646.935.3907, marv.gellman@ketchum.com
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