What is included in the new COBIT 4.0 volume?
The new COBIT volume consists of four sections: • The executive overview • The framework • The core content (high-level and detailed control objectives, management guidelines and maturity models) • Appendices (various mappings and cross-references, more maturity model information, reference material, a project description and a glossary) The core content is divided according to the 34 IT process. Each process is covered in four sections of approximately one page each, combining to give a complete picture of how to control, manage and measure the process. The four sections for each process, in order, are: • The high level control objective for the process • A process description summarizing the process objectives • A high-level control objective represented in a waterfall summarizing process goals, metrics and practices • The mapping of the process to the process domains, information criteria and IT resources.
