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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 compliance 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 key areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify whether information systems are protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits in accordance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and make recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management takes 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 Evaluate the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine whether IT decisions, directions, and performance support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine whether they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including its direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Evaluate the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, and the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine whether they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to determine whether it supports the organization’s strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, quality assurance) for compliance with the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate 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 whether they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to determine whether the organization’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to determine whether the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate the organization’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to continue 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 whether it meets business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to determine whether business requirements are achieved in a cost-effective manner while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine whether a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately supported by documentation, and has accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production to determine whether project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to determine whether project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Information Systems Operation and Business Resilience (23%)
Provide assurance that the 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 whether they continue to meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine whether the level of service from internal and external service providers is defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to determine whether providers adhere to the levels of control expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate the information systems maintenance process to determine whether it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organization’s objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimization of databases.
- 4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine whether IT services meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to determine whether incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved in a timely manner.
- 4.9 Evaluate change, configuration, and release management practices to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the organization’s 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 Evaluate the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine whether 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 the information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment with generally 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 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 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to determine whether 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/printed data, and softcopy media) to determine whether information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
- Five years of professional experience in IT auditing or security.
- Foundational knowledge in information technology operations, IT-enabled business support, and internal controls.
The required work experience can be reduced to four years if you hold a bachelor’s degree, or to three years if you hold a master’s degree.
You are permitted to take the exam even if you have not yet fulfilled the work experience requirements. However, you must meet this requirement within five years from the date you passed the exam. Failure to do so will render your exam passing score invalid.
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
Testimonials (2)
Adaptation to the needs of the trainees in terms of time spent on each topic.
Ana - Administracao do Porto de Sines e do Algarve, S.A.
Course - CISM - Certified Information Security Manager
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Overview of Risk topics and preparing for exam
