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From Scott Summers, President
of the IS Section
Several times during the Mid-year meeting materials from the Information Systems
Audit and Control Association (ISACA) were mentioned. ISACA is an international
organization of about 55,000 IS professionals. This organization is working to
support academics in both their research and teaching endeavors. Some of ISACA's
materials are freely available at www.isaca.org.
Click on the "Students and Educators" button and you will see the many items
that are available. You have access to the Model Curriculum that Joe Gelinas
mentioned in his presentation. You will also see articles on IT Audit Basics.
You also have access to the some of the COBIT framework which Steve Hasty
mentioned.
Some of ISACA's professional and educational materials are protected from the general public. To gain access to these materials you must become an "Academic Advocate" of ISACA on your campus. To become an academic advocate you simply need to complete a short application. Upon acceptance you will receive membership in ISACA and access to all of the materials that a general member can receive. You will also have access to the "COBIT in Academia" materials. ISACA requests that all academic advocates complete an annual survey detailing how COBIT was used and report if there are any materials that you would like to see among the educational materials. One set of materials that I recommend to you are the "Cobit in Academia" materials. These include a student booklet that outlines COBIT and shows students some of the detail behind the COBIT framework. There are also PowerPoint slides, a comprehensive case (TIBO) and several caselets.
I encourage you to try these things out in class. If any of you have trouble becoming academic advocates, please report the difficulty to me (summers@byu.edu). I am working to resolve one issue which limits professors to one academic advocate per university.
I should also let you know that COBIT 4.1 will be coming out in the next several months along with a new edition of the student book. I know that there are significant improvements in each of these!