The non-profit, independent IT Governance Institute (ITGI) will offer an advance look at COBIT updates and upcoming COBIT publications during the ISACA e-Symposium on 30 January 2007. The three-hour event will begin at 11am EST.
COBIT 4.1 will be publicly available in March, but e-Symposium attendees will receive an advance draft version of the executive summary and framework (still in development).
Presenters of the COBIT 4.1 e-Symposium include Gary Hardy, advisor to the IT Governance Institute and director of ITWinners; Roger Debreceny, chair of the COBIT Steering Committee and professor at the University of Hawaii; Jimmy Heschl, senior manager at KPMG Austria; and Debbie Lew, senior manager at Ernst & Young.
ISACA e-symposia are available at no cost to ISACA members and provide attendees with three continuing professional education (CPE) hours. Non-members are invited to attend the January e-Symposium at no charge. To register for the January e-Symposium or to view previous archived e-symposia, please visit www.isaca.org/webcasts.
Updates from COBIT 4.0 to 4.1 include:
* An enhanced executive overview.
* Explanation of goals and metrics in the framework section.
* Better definitions of the core concepts, with the definition of a control objective shifting more toward a management practice statement.
* Improved control objectives resulting from updated control practices and Val IT, and some renumbering of the control objectives.
* Fewer, but more effective and more detailed, application controls.
* Improved business goals and IT goals, based on new insights obtained during validation research.
* An expansion to the pull-out, providing a quick reference list of the COBIT processes.
* The incorporation of improvements identified by COBIT users.
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The IT Governance Institute (ITGI) (www.itgi.org) was established by ISACA in 1998 to advance international thinking and standards in directing and controlling an enterprise's information technology. ITGI developed Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT), now in its fourth edition, and offers original research and case studies to assist enterprise leaders and boards of directors in their IT governance responsibilities.