Where are the application controls?
The application controls were originally fully integrated in the COBIT model. This option had been taken considering that COBIT is business-process-oriented and that at this level application controls are merely part of the overall controls to be exercised over information systems and related technology. In most cases, however, this part cannot be outsourced. Hence, the question is of prime importance. Before the publication of COBIT 4.0, there was one process, Manage data, where the traditional transactions and file controls could be found. In COBIT 4.0 the application controls were taken out of DS10 and made part of the COBIT framework using the ACn prefix, because it was decided that they had become accepted as being owned by business process owners and not part of an IT process. With COBIT 4.1, they have been simplified to six key application control objectives, AC1 to 6.
The application controls have been fully integrated in the COBIT model. This option has been taken considering that COBIT is business process oriented and that at this level application controls are merely part of the overall controls to be exercised over information systems and related technology. In most cases however this part cannot be outsourced. Hence the question “Where are the application controls?” is of prime importance. Application systems and data are treated within the COBIT framework as two of the five resource categories. They are to deliver the required information at the business process level. This way application systems and data are an integral part of the COBIT framework and can be addressed specifically through the resource vantage point. In doing this, one will notice that many CobiT processes address the application controls and continue this through the entire whole lifecycle, from conception to operations. Besides the overall resource view, there is one proces
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