Comparison of Governance Models | Report

Running head: COMPARISON OF GOVERNANCE MODELS
COMPARISON OF GOVERNANCE MODELS
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COMPARISON OF GOVERNANCE MODELS1
Table of Contents
Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)....................................2
Overview................................................................................................................................2
Reason to choose it.................................................................................................................2
ISO 27002..................................................................................................................................2
Overview................................................................................................................................2
Reason to choose it.................................................................................................................3
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)..............................................................3
Overview................................................................................................................................3
Reason to choose it.................................................................................................................4
Operationally Critical Threat, Asset and Vulnerability Evaluation (OCTAVE).......................4
Overview................................................................................................................................4
Reason to choose it.................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT)
Overview
The framework of COBIT provides for the best IT management practices that helps
the organizations in the IT industry to achieve their goals through utilising their resources
well and minimizing the IT risks at a significant rate. COBIT is responsible for connecting
the IT and the Enterprise governance based on the metrics and the maturity models to obtain
business goals. ISACA organization released the first COBIT version in 1996 (Andry &
Setiawan, 2019). The four specific domains of COBIT include a) Organizing and Planning, b)
Support and Delivery, c) Acquiring and implementing and d) Supervising and Evaluating.
The various COBIT components comprises of Framework, Process Descriptions, Control
Objectives, Models of Maturity and Management Policies.
Reason to choose it
The COBIT certification not only prepares the IT professionals to face the global IT
risks but also provides a sufficient expertise information of the issues of IT management such
that the organizations can minimize the chances of risk (Alkhaldi, Hammami & Ahmar
Uddin, 2017). It helps the organizations to differentiate between the management and
governance and incorporates exact risk-free solutions for the new age IT businesses
comprising of features like Cloud Computing, Big Data and many more.
ISO 27002
Overview
Securing information in an organization and maintaining privacy of the confidential
information is crucial for any IT organization. The International Organization for
Standardization published ISO 27002 in the year 2000 with the aim to provide numerous