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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in collaboration with the Information Systems Audit and
Control Association (ISACA) will soon unveil a mechanism of control objective for
information technology tagged (COBIT5).
Acting Director General, NITDA Dr. Ashiru Daura, dropped the hint
while addressing newsmen in Abuja alongside National President of ISACA, Mr Peter
Ene, recently, saying that the development will bring sanity to the use and
management of Information Communication Technology, (ICT) in the country.
Daura said that all arrangements were geared towards seeing COBIT5
take off in the country by 2015 as it would go a long way to address the
endemic security challenges facing the country and added, "If the police have
a proper IT infrastructure, we will have a proper mechanism that will checkmate
insurgencies in the country. COBIT 5 will also address this and Nigeria should
adopt COBIT5 by 2015.”
DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered from the briefing that the agency and ISACA, which
is an international organisation focusing on security are still trying to
create awareness in order to sensitise the stakeholders that IT has come to
stay and that once COBIT is more effective, IT will be more effective and the
economy will grow.
“COBIT 5 will move Nigeria
forward. If we have a single framework, all the distractions generated by the
clash of interest of government agencies will be a thing of the past. COBIT 5
can coordinate all these things. COBIT 5 deals, with the issue of
accountability in both public and private sectors. Right now, there is no
regulation or sanity between government agencies. It will save a lot of time
and money,” ISACA president said.
Stressing that COBIT 5 separates governance from management,
hence, it does not stop at the financial or IT level alone, but covers
everything. Elucidating that COBIT 5 has seven components and is ideal business
framework for enterprise and business IT.
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