Cobit - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Enterprises and their executives strive to: • Maintain quality information to support business decisions. • Generate business value from IT-enabled investments, i.e., achieve strategic goals and realise business benefits through effective and innovative use of IT. • Achieve operational excellence through reliable and efficient application of technology. • Maintain IT-related risk at an acceptable level. • Optimise the cost of IT services and technology. How can these benefits...

Abend :~~ An abnormal end to a computer job; termination of a task prior to its completion because of an error condition that cannot be resolved by recovery facilities while the task is executing. Acceptable interruption window :~~ The maximum period of time that a system can be unavailable before compromising the achievement of the enterprise's business objectives. Acceptable Use policy :~~ A policy that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for ...

INTRODUCTION Cyber security is receiving increased attention from the boards of many organizations today in large part due to the bad publicity generated from recent large data breaches. Senior members of management and corporate boards have lost their positions, and organizations have had to spend valuable resources in post-breach cleanup and to make their clients and customers “whole.” Infrastructure spending has increased as organizations attempt to prevent the breaches from occur...

Re-evaluation of ISACA Risk analysis According to De Haes et al. (2020), the use of COBIT implementation in IT governance plays a critical role in risk assessment. The method takes into consideration the probability as well as the direct impact of a threat to help people management make informed decisions. Roldán-Molina et al. (2017) state that proper assessment must incorporate all the potential risks individually. RISK EVENT PROBABILITY IMPACT OVERALL RISK RATING Laptop or mobile device wi...