Getting Started with COBIT: Applying COBIT Principles to IT Policies
Submitted By: wazocat
Lead Presenter: Lorraine N. Abraham, Director of Library and IT Services, Title III Project Director, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia
Scheduled For: Monday @ 10:00 AM in Water Oaks III
Session Type: Session - Software Demo
Preferred Paper Track: Regular (non peer-reviewed) Paper Track
Target Audience: • The target audience for this presentation will be primarily IT directors and CIO’s, although computer science and business inf
Lead Presenter: Lorraine N. Abraham, Director of Library and IT Services, Title III Project Director, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia
Scheduled For: Monday @ 10:00 AM in Water Oaks III
Session Type: Session - Software Demo
Preferred Paper Track: Regular (non peer-reviewed) Paper Track
Target Audience: • The target audience for this presentation will be primarily IT directors and CIO’s, although computer science and business inf
Abstract:
• This presentation will provide a brief introduction to the COBIT 4.1 IT governance model and its importance in information technology management, strategic planning, and policy development. It will discuss the design and implementation of standardized policies, especially service level agreements and acceptable use policies. Discussion on service level agreements will cover scope of work; identify relevant stakeholders and accountable parties; define and enumerate the metrics of accountability for both the vendor and the institution; and set forth the parameters of fulfillment such as time frame, total costs, and acceptable responses for failure to meet the specifications of the agreement. This presentation will discuss the application of COBIT governance principles to security and acceptable use policies.
Lorraine N. Abraham was the Director of Library and Information Technology Services at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia for the past nine years. She is now Chief Information Officer and Director of the Library. Lorraine earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University; a Master of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina; a Master of Arts in History, a Certificate of Specialty in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and has completed her doctoral coursework for a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She has taught history at Emory & Henry College, and computer information science at Midlands Technical College and at Ohio State, and library and information science at the University of South Carolina. Lorraine regularly guest-lectures in religion, history, women’s studies, and geography at Emory & Henry College.
