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Course Outline
Objective:
The primary objective is to help you pass your CISA examination on your first attempt.
Information System Auditing Process (21%)
Deliver audit services in alignment with IT audit standards to assist the organization in safeguarding and controlling information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy in accordance with IT audit standards to ensure key areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits according to IT audit standards to achieve predefined audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-up reviews or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken timely and appropriate corrective actions.
Governance and Management of IT (17%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organization's strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine if IT decisions, direction, and performance align with the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess the IT organizational structure and human resource management to determine alignment with the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including direction and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, to ensure alignment with the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organization's IT policies, standards, and procedures, and the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine support for the IT strategy and compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the adequacy of the quality management system to determine if it supports the organization's strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring practices (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organization's policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Assess IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine support for the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to determine if the organization's IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to determine if the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organization's business continuity plan to determine its ability to sustain essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation (12%)
Provide assurance that practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems meet the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and retirement to determine alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to determine if business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately documented, and has accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess information systems readiness for implementation and migration into production to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Information Systems Operation and Business Resilience (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support meet the organization's strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine if they continue to meet organizational objectives.
- 4.2 Assess service level management practices to determine if service levels from internal and external providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to determine if providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Assess operations and end-user procedures to determine if scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to determine if it is effectively controlled and continues to support organizational objectives.
- 4.6 Assess data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimization.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine if IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to determine if incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved in a timely manner.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to determine if scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the production environment are adequately controlled and documented.
- 4.10 Assess the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to determine the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Assess the organization's disaster recovery plan to determine its ability to restore IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Protection of Information Assets (27%)
Provide assurance that the organization's security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- 5.1 Assess information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment with generally accepted practices.
- 5.2 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of system and logical security controls to verify the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- 5.3 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes and procedures for alignment with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
- 5.5 Assess the processes and procedures used to store, retrieve, transport, and dispose of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/print data, softcopy media) to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
- 5 years of professional experience in IT auditing or security.
- Foundational knowledge in IT operations, IT-supported business functions, and internal control.
The work experience requirement may be reduced to 4 years for candidates holding a bachelor's degree, or to 3 years for those with a master's degree.
Candidates are permitted to sit for the exam before meeting the work experience requirement. However, this experience must be obtained within 5 years of taking the exam. Failure to meet this requirement within the specified period will result in the invalidation of your exam passing score.
Target Audience
- Auditors
- IT System Auditors
- IT Infrastructure Managers
- Risk Management or Business Continuity Managers
- Professionals responsible for all aspects of IT management
28 Hours
Testimonials (2)
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Mohamed Romdhani - Shams Power
Course - CISM - Certified Information Security Manager
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