Isaca’s IT Governance Certificate Terminates December

Information System Audit and Control Association (Isaca) has extended to December end, the grandfathering provision for bagging the Certified Governance of Enterprise IT programme (CGEIT).
The grandfathering provision is the Association’s concession to corporate executives and senior IT personnel with a minimum of eight years experience, to obtain the CGEIT on the basis of their experience rather than by written examinations.
Ivan Anya, MD/CEO, Business Intelligence Technologies, Isaca’s global professional examination service centre and certification handler in Nigeria and West Africa, said the company’s responsibility under the grandfathering provision in Nigeria and the West African region is to take interested candidates through the 3 day workshop during which they will be given a startup body of knowledge in IT Governance consistent with Isaca’s requirement and which will later earn them the certification.
“Isaca also provides substitution for individuals that may have less than eight years experience. If anybody has professional qualifications such as Cisa, CISM, CISSP, among others; those can substitute for a year, and where the staff has other management level experience, it can also be substituted for two years” he informed.
He pointed out that even though IT Governance practice and certification are new developments in Nigeria, their penetration in the country would enable organizations achieve effective delivery of business goals, reduce IT cost and maximize returns on IT spending.
“We are targeting for the workshops and the certifications, people in the top hierarchy of decision making such as the Board and executive management, otherwise called the C-Suite cadre,” Anya said.
“They are targeted because they need to be put through the knowledge required to align IT strategy with enterprise-wide business strategies and also measure IT performance. Decision makers and top level management are expected to be knowledgeable on how their business objectives can be better achieved using IT, understand business and IT risk issues, and how to optimize value in the organization,” he added.