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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in alignment with IT audit standards to help the organisation protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards, ensuring all critical areas are covered.
- 1.1 Plan targeted audits to verify whether information systems are protected, controlled, and delivering value to the organisation.
- 1.3 Execute audits in accordance with IT audit standards to achieve predefined audit objectives.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to facilitate results-driven change where necessary.
- 1.5 Perform follow-up activities or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken timely and appropriate actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that the requisite leadership, organisational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organisation’s strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance framework to confirm that IT decisions, direction, and performance align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess the IT organisational structure and human resources (personnel) management to ensure they support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including its direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organisation’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to ensure they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the adequacy of the quality management system to determine if it supports the organisation’s strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organisation’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Assess IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritisation criteria, for alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to determine if the organisation’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organisation’s business continuity plan to evaluate its ability to sustain essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Provide assurance that practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems meet the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and subsequent retirement to determine alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organisational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that projects are progressing according to plans, adequately documented, and reporting accurate status.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with the organisation'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 organisational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements are met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support meet the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to verify they continue to meet the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.2 Assess service level management practices to determine if the service levels provided by internal and external service providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to determine if providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organisation.
- 4.4 Assess operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to verify it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.6 Assess data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimisation of databases.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine if IT services meet the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analysed, and resolved in a timely manner.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to verify that scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the organisation’s 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 organisation’s disaster recovery plan to determine if it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Provide assurance that the organisation’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 the organisation’s 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, and softcopy media) to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
There are no mandatory prerequisites 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
Hazem has a very recent experience passing the exam and knows the gotchas and the way how ISC structures their questions.
Ivan - EY GLOBAL SERVICES (POLAND) SP Z O O
Course - Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) CBK Review
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