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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services aligned 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 critical areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to assess whether information systems are protected, controlled, and delivering organizational value.
- 1.3 Execute audits in accordance with IT audit standards to meet defined audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and propose recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-up reviews or prepare status reports to ensure management takes timely corrective 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 Evaluate the IT governance structure to determine if IT decisions, directions, and performance align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess the IT organizational structure and human resources management to ensure they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Review the IT strategy, including direction and processes for development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies.
- 2.4 Evaluate IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to ensure they support IT strategy and comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the quality management system to determine if it cost-effectively supports the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with organizational policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Assess IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, to ensure alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Review IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to ensure IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely IT performance information.
- 2.11 Review the organization’s business continuity plan to assess its ability to maintain essential operations during an IT disruption.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Assure that practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate business cases for proposed information systems investments, development, maintenance, and 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 organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that projects follow plans, are adequately documented, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess system readiness for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation system reviews to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements have been satisfied.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Assure that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with the organization’s 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 determine if service levels from internal and external providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Review the information systems maintenance process to ensure it is effectively controlled and continues to support organizational 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 ensure IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Review problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or 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 adequately controlled and documented.
- 4.10 Evaluate the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to determine the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Review the organization’s disaster recovery plan to ensure it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Assure that the organization’s security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- 5.1 Review information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment with widely accepted practices.
- 5.2 Evaluate 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 to ensure alignment with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate physical access and environmental controls to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
- 5.5 Review processes and procedures for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy, and softcopy media) to ensure adequate safeguarding.
Requirements
This non-certification course does not require specific prerequisites.
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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