Speech by the Hon. Jason Azzopardi, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Land

Speech

Mr. Georges Ataya

SLIDES -I

SLIDES -II

Mr. Erik Guldentops

SLIDES

Mr. Roger Southgate.

SLIDES

Other Handouts - I

Other Handouts - II

Mr. Ton Diemont

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Conference Photos

References to ISACA Thought Leadership  during the conference:

Successful organizations understand the benefits of information technology (IT) and use this knowledge to drive their shareholders’ value. They recognize the critical dependence of many business processes on IT, the need to comply with increasing regulatory compliance demands and the benefits of managing risk effectively. To aid organizations in successfully meeting today’s business challenges, ISACA has published version COBIT® 4.1.

COBIT is an IT governance framework and supporting toolset that allows managers to bridge the gap between control requirements, technical issues and business risks. COBIT enables clear policy development and good practice for IT control throughout organizations. COBIT emphasizes regulatory compliance, helps organizations to increase the value attained from IT, enables alignment and simplifies implementation of the COBIT framework.

COBIT 4.1 English (PDF, 5M) Free registration is available for non-members to download this PDF.

COBIT 4.1 Excerpt (PDF, 850K)

COBIT 4.1 Brochure (PDF, 180K) Describing COBIT 4.1, the world's leading IT control and governance framework.

COBIT 4.1 Products Brochure (PDF, 1M)

Related Publications

• COBIT User Guide for Service Managers

• IT Control Objectives for Basel II

• Implementing and Continually Improving IT Governance

• IT Assurance Guide: Using COBIT

• COBIT Control Practices, 2nd Edition

• COBIT Quickstart, 2nd Edition

• COBIT Mappings

• COBIT Security Baseline, 2nd Edition

• IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition

 For further details on COBIT refer to link.

In business today, risk plays a critical role. Almost every business decision requires executives and managers to balance risk and reward. Effectively managing the business risks is essential to an enterprise’s success.

Too often, IT risk (business risk related to the use of IT) is overlooked. Other business risks, such as market risks, credit risk and operational risks have long been incorporated into the corporate decision-making processes. IT risk has been relegated to technical specialists outside the boardroom, despite falling under the same ‘umbrella’ risk category as other business risks: failure to achieve strategic objectives

Risk IT is a framework based on a set of guiding principles for effective management of IT risk. The framework complements COBIT^®, a comprehensive framework for the governance and control of business-driven, IT-based solutions and services. While COBIT provides a set of controls to mitigate IT risk, Risk IT provides a framework for enterprises to identify, govern and manage IT risk. Simply put, COBIT provides the means of risk management; Risk IT provides the ends. Enterprises who have adopted (or are planning to adopt) COBIT as their IT governance framework can use Risk IT to enhance risk management.

For further details refer to link.

Val IT is a governance framework including generally accepted guiding principles and supporting processes related to the evaluation and selection of IT-enabled business investments, and benefit realization and delivery of value from those investments. The Val IT framework is based on the COBIT framework. To obtain a return on investment, the Val IT principles are applied to management processes including value governance, portfolio management, and investment management. The Val IT framework will be supported by publications and operational tools and provides guidance to:

• Define the relationship between IT and the business and those functions in the organization with governance responsibilities;
• Manage an organization's portfolio of IT-enabled business investments; and
• Maximize the quality of business cases for IT-enabled business investments with particular emphasis on the definition of key financial indicators, the quantification of "soft" benefits and the comprehensive appraisal of the downside risk

Val IT addresses assumptions, costs, risks and outcomes related to a balanced portfolio of IT-enabled business investments. It also provides benchmarking capability and allows enterprises to exchange experiences on best practices for value management.

The series "Enterprise Value: Governance of IT Investments," contains the following publications:

• Val IT™ Mapping: Mapping of Val IT™ 2.0 to MSP™, PRINCE2™ and ITIL® V3
• The Val IT Framework 2.0
• Getting Started With Value Management
• The Business Case