ISACA has developed a new certification called “Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT)”, to fulfill the growing business demands, promote the best practices and recognize professionals for IT governance.

Nowadays, several business circumstances are driving executives to aware the importance of IT governance, for example :

• crucial cohesion of business, compliance and IT management;
• adequate and balanced of InfoSec and privacy;
• cost-effective and successful project management; and
• a reasonable return on IT investments.

This certification will benefit the individual, through recognition of their professional knowledge and competencies; skill-sets; abilities and experiences, and will enhance their professional standing. It will also add value to the enterprises they support through the demonstration of a visible commitment to excellence in IT governance practices.

For more information about this new CGEIT, please click here.

Topic : Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solution - Maximizing Enterprise Integration and Value

Financial results are no longer the sole basis of company success. Stakeholders now want evidence that organizations are conducting their operations effectively, profitably, and ethically. Successful companies reach corporate accountability by proving to stakeholders that their business is reliable, compliant, and sustainable. Achieving this level of operations and reporting requires a unified GRC strategy that guides people, standardizes processes, and integrates technology to embed GRC at every organizational level.

Systematic management for GRC not only promotes corporate accountability by unifying corporate strategy, control initiatives, opportunity discovery, and loss mitigation across the extended enterprise. Managing GRC across the extended enterprise also allows processes and strategies to be evaluated within the company and extended to partners, suppliers, and customers – truly representing the reach of the enterprise.

Presenter : Jonathan Wan, GRC Solution Manager, SAP Hong Kong
Date : 9 September 2008 (Tuesday)
Time : Refreshment from 6 pm, Presentation from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Venue : 23/F., Three Pacific Place, 1 Queens Road East, Wanchai (near MTR Admiralty Station Exit F) 
 
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IT Governance Institute is extremely pleased to announce the release of a new key component of its IT governance library:  COBIT 4.0.

COBIT 4.0 is the first update of the COBIT content since COBIT 3rd Edition was released in 2000. This new version reflects increased harmonization with other detailed standards, greater emphasis on IT governance, streamlining of concepts and language, and detailed analysis of metrics concepts, among other improvements. The new volume, consisting of more than 200 pages, includes an executive overview, the framework, the core content (high-level control objective, detailed control objectives, management guidelines and maturity model) for each of the 34 processes, and several appendices.

COBIT 4.0 represents the efforts of literally hundreds of volunteer experts from around the world.  It is available for free download from www.itgi.org , and for purchase from the ISACA Bookstore, www.isaca.org/cobit .

ISACA is proud to announce that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has awarded accreditation under ISO/IEC 17024 to ISACA’s CISA and CISM certification programs.