Simplified IT Risk Management Maturity Audit System based on "COBIT 5 for Risk"

In recent years, the role of risk management has emerged as a key success factor in ensuring the growth on the one hand and the survival on the other hand of any organization. Moreover, dependence on IT has become systematic within any organization. This dependence therefore, implies the importance of implementation of an IT risk management system in order to well manage IT risks. There are several standards that deal with enterprise risk management in general or information security in particular. However, few standards deal with IT risk management. Noting, for example, COBIT 5 (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) which deals with IT risk management but is complicated to deploy. The purpose of this article is to describe a simplified IT risk management maturity audit system in an organization based on "COBIT 5 for risk". This system aims to evaluate the maturity of IT risk management before proceeding to the implementation or update of an IT risk management system within an organisation.