COBIT Framework

The framework provides acceptable practices beyond a area and action framework. The business acclimatization of COBIT consists of bond business goals to IT goals, accouterment metrics and ability models to admeasurement their achievement, and anecdotic the associated responsibilities of business and IT action owners. The action focus of COBIT is illustrated by a action archetypal that subdivides IT into four domains (Plan and Organize, Acquire and Implement, Deliver and Support and Adviser and Evaluate) and 34 processes in band with the albatross areas of plan, build, run and monitor. It is positioned at a top akin and has been accumbent and harmonized with other, added detailed, IT standards and acceptable practices such as COSO, ITIL, ISO 27000, CMMI, TOGAF and PMBOK. COBIT acts as an integrator of these altered advice materials, summarizing key objectives beneath one awning framework that hotlink the acceptable convenance models with babyminding and business requirements.

The COBIT 4.1 Framework blueprint can be acquired as a adulatory PDF at the ISACA download website. (Free self-registration may be required.)