Integrating COBIT with COSO and Other Frameworks

Why Should You Attend:

An uncontrolled environment can empower employees to obtain unearned economic rewards. Management may deploy an adequate system of internal controls; yet an entity’s personnel may perceive control weaknesses existing that may facilitate irregular or illegal acts for personal profit. An entity’s management should proactively mitigate irregular and unlawful act risks to reduce vulnerability perceptions.

An entity's control environment can provide discipline and structure to processes that ensure meeting operational, financial and compliance requirements. As an integrated component, technology has and will continue to influence the control environment as well as assume activity change agent responsibility. Nevertheless, technology development and deployment connect inextricably to the economic, social, political, and informational factors that prevail in the entity's control environment.

An entity’s control environment sets the “tone at the top” and can influence the effectiveness of specific service delivery and support control techniques. IT governance should synchronize to a superior entity-level control environment. An adequate entity-level control environment provides discipline and structure for the achievement of primary internal control system objectives.

Join us as Dr. Davis will discuss the operational control system deployments using COBIT and COSO domains as the foundational frameworks for ensuring entity-wide adaptability. Additionally, Dr. Davis will address the incorporation of COBIT with other accepted frameworks to ensure aligned information technology and business processes with the organization's adopted structures.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• The need to establish appropriate governance, risk management, and compliance
• Total governance integration and alignment requirements
• Extracting convergence points when integrating frameworks
• Architectural conceptualization to achieve framework integration
• COBIT program considerations for sustaining congruence with other frameworks
• COBIT system factors for supporting cohesiveness with other frameworks
• COBIT process considerations that enable linkages with other frameworks
• Managerial activities for maintaining consistency with other frameworks

Who Will Benefit:

• Audit committee members
• Risk Management Executives
• Chief Audit Executives
• External Audit Partners
• Chief Executive Officers
• Chief Financial Officers
• Chief Information Officers
• Compliance Executives
• Chief Information Security Officers
• Compliance Officers
• Business Analyst
• Quality Assessors
• IT Auditors

Robert E. Davis
Professor, Temple and West Chester University

Dr. Robert E. Davis obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Business Law, a Master of Business Administration in Management Information Systems, and a Doctor of Business Administration in Information Systems Management from Temple, West Chester, and Walden University; respectively. Moreover, during his twenty years of involvement in education, Dr. Davis acquired Postgraduate and Professional Technical licenses in Computer Science and Computer Systems Technology.

Dr. Davis also obtained the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certificate — after passing the 1988 Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s rigorous three hundred and fifty multiple-choice questions examination; and was conferred the Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA) certificate by the Institute for Internal Controls.

Since starting his career as an information system auditor, Robert has provided data security consulting and IS auditing services to corporations as well as other organizations; in staff through management positions. Before engaging in the practice of IS auditing and information security consulting; Robert (as a corporate employee) provided inventory as well as general accounting services to Philip Morris, USA, and general accounting services to Philadelphia National Bank (Wells Fargo). Furthermore, he has prior experience as a freelance writer of IT audit and information security training material.

Dr. Davis received recognition as an accomplished, energetic auditor, author, and speaker with a sound mix of experience and skills in monitoring and evaluating controls. Based on his accomplishments, Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management Alumni Newsletter, as well as The Institute for Internal Controls e-newsletter featured Dr. Davis. Furthermore, he is an Advisory Board Member of The Institute for Internal Controls, the first and inaugural Temple University CISA in Residence and a founding Temple University Master of Science in IT Auditing and Cyber-Security Advisory Councilmen. Last, he accepted invitations to join Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society, the Golden Key International Honour Society, the Thomson Reuters' Expert Witness List, the IT Governance LTD expert panel, as well as the International Association of IT Governance Standards honorary membership group.

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