Risk Management

Risk management provides the framework that contains all activities needed to assess and prioritize and identify the type of risk which may have an impact on the organizations objectives from different perspectives like stratergic,project,program and operational.

M_o_R is suited for those who are responsible for identifying, analyzing and managing risk at strategic, program, project and operational levels such as Business Change Managers, Program and Project Managers, Risk Managers, Operational staff and managers, and in fact: everybody in the organization.

Obtaining the Foundation level demonstrates basic knowledge and understanding of the COBIT 5 guidance, principles and models. Candidates will be able to:

• Gain a holistic understanding of the governance and management of an organization’s internal information systems and technology.
• Provide top management with an overview of current IT enterprise findings, identifying key problem areas of improvement.
• Recommend improvements, by implementation aspects of COBIT 5.

Practical understanding on how to implement, apply and integrate COBIT 5 within an organization, reducing business risk and improving business performance. Candidates will be able to:

• Effectively analyse business IT operations.
• Source the root of problem areas and implement change through scope and plan.
• Assess and resolve current process capabilities.
• Implement the latest good practices, in order to avoid future risk and process capability delay.

The Assessors level provides methods, guides and models, supported by several case studies that will provide knowledge on how to implement and process assessment. Learn how to analyse results to provide a clear outcome of process capabilities. Direct process improvements in accordance to current business goals and benchmarks, whilst measuring achievements. Candidates will be able to:

• Approach, plan and implement improvements using good practices.
• Implement one framework to support all IT management capabilities.
• Use COBIT 5 metrics and scorecards to create a performance measurement framework for an organization.
• Perform and process capability assessment using COBIT 5 guides, models and methods.
• Brief team members with clear plans and structure.
• Identify roles and responsibilities in the process capability assessment process.

This level is based on a clear understanding of process cybersecurity capabilities of an IT system. It provides knowledge on how to perform a process assessment and how to analyse the results, to provide a clear determination of process cybersecurity capability.

Provides guidance on how to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) through a seven-step process, aligned with COBIT 5 principles. Candidates will be able to:

• Understand in-depth the relationship between business information, IT systems and cybersecurity risk.
• Raise awareness of business impacts, as a result of cybersecurity factors.
• Reduce and manage the operational environment, by detecting and ultimately managing the possibility of a cybersecurity attack.
• Prioritize mission objectives in accordance to cyber threats.
• Detect and implement security controls, to bridge the gap between cybersecurity requirements and operational security risk.

After completing the COBIT 5 Foundation course, delegates will have a thorough understanding of:

• How IT management issues are affecting organizations
• The need for an effective framework to govern and manage enterprise IT
• How COBIT meets the requirement for an IT governance framework
• How COBIT is used with other standards and best practices
• The functions that COBIT provides and the benefits of using COBIT
• he COBIT Framework and all the components of COBIT
• How to apply COBIT in a practical situation

The target group of COBIT 5 Foundation course includes, but is not restricted to:

• IT auditors
• IT managers
• IT quality professionals
• IT leadership
• IT developers
• Process practitioners and managers in IT service firms
• BusinessManagement and
• CEO’s

ISACA offers professionals who have mastered the content in the COBIT 5 Foundation course an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge by taking an exam and earning a foundation level certificate.

ISACA offers professionals who have mastered the content in the COBIT 5 Foundation Course an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge by taking an exam and earning a certificate of completion. These professionals understand the IT management issues organizations face today and know how to use COBIT to respond to these challenges. These professionals have used the elements of COBIT, in practice, and are prepared to recommended applications of COBIT for enterprise-wide projects.