- West Africa Medicines Regulation Harmonization Initiative

Author: WAHO

Category: Information Management Systems

Language: English

Description The primary purpose of COBIT is to provide clear policy and good practice for IT governance throughout organisations worldwide — to help senior management understand and manage the risks associated with IT. COBIT accomplishes this by providing an IT governance framework and detailed control objective guides for management, business process owners, users, and auditors. COBIT starts with a simple and pragmatic premise: to provide the information needed to achieve its objectives, an organisation should manage its IT resources through a set of naturally grouped processes. COBIT groups processes in a simple, business-oriented hierarchy. Each process references IT resources, and quality, fiduciary, and security requirements for information.

Abstract The underpinning concept of the COBIT Framework is that control in IT is approached by looking at information that is needed to support the business objectives or requirements, and by looking at information as being the result of the combined application of IT-related resources that need to be managed by IT processes. To satisfy business objectives, information needs to conform to certain criteria, which COBIT refers to as business requirements for information

Essential Medicines & Vaccines

WAHO Manual on Cobit Implementation