The research aims to determine the level of governance of information technology
available in the Commercial Bank of Syria Latakia using a form (COBIT) four dimensions:
planning and organization, acquisition and implementation, delivery and support
,
monitoring and evaluation. The research on the survey methodology, and through the
survey of administrators in the Commercial Bank of Syria to determine the level of
application of IT governance model based on COBIT, a tool used for the control of
information technology. Developed by the Institute of IT governance in the United States
in 1992, and defines the business model of this (34) goal with a high level of control over
the IT operations, it also provides the framework general standard applicable and
acceptable for good security for information technology, and practices for the control of to
strengthen the management needs to identify and follow up to ensure the appropriate level
of information technology, also provides auditors set of measurements, and accepted
indicators for good governance to help them give their opinion in the organization.
Were distributed (43) The identification of the administrative officials of the
Commercial Bank of Syria Latakia, was retrieved / 40 / identification of a complete and
valid for statistical analysis, the response rate was 93.02%. The research found that the
level of application of IT governance in the Commercial Bank of Syria Lattakia according
to the framework (COBIT) is the four dimensions of the average level. The researcher
recommended that it should be applied to measure model IT Governance Syrian
commercial banks, according to model (COBIT), to be the yardstick for the level of IT
governance, and an assistant to the banks to find out the status quo has.
