From the course: ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Cert Prep

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Frameworks continued

Frameworks continued

- [Instructor] Okay, so let's take a look at COBIT 5. And COBIT stands for Control Objectives for IT. So right off the bat, that should kind of give you a sense of what COBIT is about. It's about taking those enterprise objectives and turning them into objectives for IT so that everything that we do should be able to be traced up to a business objective. And that's exactly what we want. So COBIT comes to us from ISACA, and there are essentially some principles that we want to be familiar with. And this really gets at the heart and soul of the need for information security and how we're going to support the organization. So the first principles we have to meet stakeholder needs, and that's should be the first principle of every business. But how do we in IT meet stakeholder needs? Well, stakeholder needs are going to be things like increase our customer base, increase customer confidence, increase our profitability, or our share in the market. And even though in information security…

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