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Certificate
Course Outline
Objective:
The primary goal is to help you pass the CISA examination on your first attempt.
Information System Auditing Process (21%)
Deliver audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to assist organizations in protecting and controlling information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy that complies with IT audit standards, ensuring coverage of critical areas.
- Plan specific audits to assess whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- Execute audits in compliance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 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 established to achieve objectives and support the organization's strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to ensure 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 ensure they support 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, along with 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 organization’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess 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, use, 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 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 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to determine if the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organization’s business continuity plan to evaluate 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 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and retirement to determine if it meets business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately documented, and has accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases to ensure compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements have been 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 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 unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to ensure it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organization’s 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 the organization’s objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to determine if incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved timely.
- 4.9 Assess 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 Assess 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 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 to ensure alignment with the organization’s policies, standards, procedures, and 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
- 5 years of professional experience in IT auditing or security
- Foundational knowledge of IT operations, business support through IT, and internal controls.
The required work experience can be reduced to 4 years if the candidate holds a bachelor's degree, or to 3 years with a master's degree.
Candidates may sit for the exam even if the work experience requirement is not yet met. However, this condition must be fulfilled within 5 years from the date of taking the exam. Failure to meet this requirement within the stipulated time will result in the forfeiture of your exam pass.
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
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Mohamed Romdhani - Shams Power
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