Citicus has signed a licensing agreement with ISACA® to provide support for COBIT 5® in its award-winning risk and compliance management software, Citicus ONE. The combination of Citicus ONE and COBIT 5 provides a unique toolkit for organizations that want to adopt, reference or align with the industry-leading COBIT framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT.

Using Citicus ONE with COBIT 5 will enable organizations to:

- Benchmark their enterprise IT against the 37 COBIT 5 enabling processes and their supporting activities
- Assess the status of their information security programme against the COBIT 5 for information security specification
- Identify, record and track actions needed to conform with the COBIT recommended practices
- Monitor progress towards full alignment with the COBIT 5 framework over time.

COBIT 5 is the latest edition of ISACA’s globally accepted framework, providing an end-to-end business view of the governance of enterprise IT that reflects the central role of information and technology in creating value for enterprises. The principles, practices, analytical tools and models found in COBIT 5 embody thought leadership and guidance from business, IT and governance experts around the world.

Citicus ONE is a leading governance, risk and compliance software tool available either as an on-demand hosted service or as an in-house installable solution. As well as supporting COBIT 5, Citicus ONE contains an extensive library of other standards such as ISO27001, PCI-DSS, ISF SoGP and NIST and can be easily customized to incorporate an organization’s own policies and standards.

Simon Oxley, managing director at Citicus says, “We are delighted to integrate the capabilities of Citicus ONE with the rich content of the COBIT 5 framework.  Our customers are under increasing pressure to maximize the benefits from their risk and compliance management activities and the ability to use Citicus ONE as a support tool for COBIT implementation is a real help to them.”