*The MISTI "public" seminar fee for this program is $1595 per student not including travel expenses! Your continued participation in the Chapter make these outstanding training opportunities possible!

With the current emphasis on enterprise governance, successful organizations are integrating IT with business strategies to achieve their objectives, optimize information value, and capitalize on today’s technologies. To that end, Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT®), the internationally recognized set of IT management best practices and control objectives, provides a powerful framework for IT governance, control and audit.

COBIT offers IT management an effective tool for controlling IT operations and provides IT auditors with an efficient means to assess the resulting IT control environment. Because COBIT links control objectives to the business framework, it can be used as a guide for ensuring appropriate control coverage.

In this two-day seminar you will review the latest COBIT control framework and focus on how you can use this industry-recognized framework for evaluating the effectiveness of IT-related controls. You will also discover how it can help ensure IT is in compliance with the numerous international laws and regulations that require effective IT security and control. In addition you, will pay particular attention to using COBIT for performing risk assessments, for strengthening IT control practices, and for planning and executing your IT audits. Throughout the seminar you will use several COBIT control objectives to see for yourself how to best apply detailed control objectives, control practices, and IT assurance guidelines when planning and executing audits.

Fred C. Roth is Vice President of MIS Training Institute’s IT Audit Division, where he is the primary developer of its IT Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley IT Audit curriculum. Mr. Roth has also provided extensive direction and training to organizations worldwide in planning and assessing IT risk areas for S-OX compliance.

Previously, Mr. Roth spent more than 28 years in system development and information technology audit and security with Eastman Kodak Company. As Corporate Audit Project Manager, he had worldwide responsibility for planning and coordinating Kodak’s IS/IT audits in the United States, Asia, Europe and South America. Mr. Roth was a key player in Kodak’s successful worldwide SAP implementation, where he was responsible for the Corporate Audit partnership on the project and for assessing controls during system design and implementation. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and does IT control and security training on a worldwide basis.

• What Is COBIT 4.1?
• Mapping COBIT 4.1 to Other Frameworks and Standards
• COBIT and IT Governance
• Using COBIT to Assess IT Governance
• Using COBIT to Assess IT Controls
• Using COBIT for Regulatory Compliance
• COBIT Quickstart
• Implementing COBIT 4.1