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Certificate
Course Outline
Objective:
The primary objective is to help you pass your CISA examination on the first attempt.
Information System Auditing Process (21%)
Deliver audit services in alignment with IT audit standards to help the organization protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards to ensure coverage of key areas.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify that information systems are protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits according to IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
Governance and Management of IT (17%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, and processes are in place 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 support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine if they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including IT direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Review the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, and the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine if 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 organization’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls (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 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support 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 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to determine if the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.
- 2.11 Review the organization’s business continuity plan to assess its ability to maintain 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 Evaluate 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 determine if projects are progressing according to plans, adequately supported by documentation, and if status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during 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 the organization’s objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine if the level of service from internal and external providers is defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to determine if providers adhere to the levels of control expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Assess operations and end-user procedures to determine if scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate the information systems maintenance process to determine if it is controlled effectively and continues to support the organization’s objectives.
- 4.6 Assess data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimization.
- 4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine if IT services meet the organization’s 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 Evaluate change, configuration, and release management practices to determine if scheduled and unscheduled 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 Evaluate the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine if it enables the recovery of 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 Evaluate 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 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes and procedures for alignment with the organization’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 Evaluate 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
- 5 years of professional experience in IT auditing or security
- Foundational knowledge in IT operations, IT-driven business support, and internal controls.
The required work experience may be reduced to 4 years for candidates holding a bachelor's degree, or to 3 years for those with a master's degree.
You are permitted to take the exam before fulfilling the work experience requirement, provided this condition is met within 5 years of the exam date. Failure to complete this within 5 years will render your exam results invalid.
Target Audience
- auditors
- IT system auditors
- IT infrastructure managers,
- risk management or business continuity managers,
- individuals 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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