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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in compliance with IT audit standards to help organizations protect and control their information systems.
- 1.1 Design and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy that adheres to IT audit standards, ensuring all critical areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan targeted audits to verify that information systems are properly protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits in line with IT audit standards to meet planned audit goals.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to facilitate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-up audits or prepare status reports to ensure management takes timely and appropriate actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Assure 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 confirm that IT decisions, direction, and performance align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resource management to ensure they support strategic goals.
- 2.3 Review the IT strategy, including its direction, development, approval, implementation, and maintenance processes, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies.
- 2.4 Examine IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to ensure they support IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the quality management system’s adequacy to determine if it supports strategic goals cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) to ensure compliance with organizational policies and standards.
- 2.7 Review IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization, to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine their support for organizational strategies.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to ensure IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Review monitoring and assurance practices to confirm that the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely IT performance information.
- 2.11 Assess the business continuity plan to evaluate the organization’s ability to maintain essential operations during IT disruptions.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Assure that practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate business cases for proposed IT investments in acquisition, development, maintenance, and retirement to ensure they meet business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to verify that business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to confirm projects are progressing according to plans, supported by adequate documentation, and reported accurately.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases to ensure compliance with organizational policies and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess information system readiness for implementation and migration to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are satisfied.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation reviews to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Assure that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet organizational objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to ensure service levels from internal and external providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to verify that providers adhere to expected control levels.
- 4.4 Review operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and unscheduled processes are completed effectively.
- 4.5 Evaluate information systems maintenance processes to ensure they are controlled and continue to support organizational objectives.
- 4.6 Assess data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimization.
- 4.7 Review the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools to ensure IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, and errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to ensure scheduled and unscheduled changes to the production environment are controlled and documented.
- 4.10 Evaluate backup and restore provisions to ensure the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Review the disaster recovery plan to ensure it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities after a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Assure that organizational security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- 5.1 Evaluate information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment with 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 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes to ensure alignment with organizational policies and external requirements.
- 5.4 Review the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure adequate safeguarding of information assets.
- 5.5 Assess processes for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copies, softcopy media) to ensure adequate protection.
Requirements
No specific prerequisites are required for this non-certified course.
35 Hours
Testimonials (3)
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Daniel - EY GLOBAL SERVICES (POLAND) SP Z O O
Course - CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional
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Ivan - EY GLOBAL SERVICES (POLAND) SP Z O O
Course - Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) CBK Review
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