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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in compliance with IT audit standards to help the organization protect and manage its information systems effectively.
- 1.1 Create and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy that complies with IT audit standards, ensuring coverage of critical areas.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify that information systems are protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits in accordance with IT audit standards to meet planned objectives.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to inform results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
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 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to ensure that 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 verify support for the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to ensure they support the IT strategy and meet regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the adequacy of the quality management system to determine if it supports organizational strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (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, for alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to ensure they support organizational 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 ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information on IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organization’s business continuity plan to evaluate its ability to maintain essential business operations during IT disruptions.
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 Assess 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 ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Perform reviews to verify that projects progress according to plans, are adequately documented, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess information system readiness for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation system reviews to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements have been met.
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 Perform periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet organizational 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 ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Assess operations and end-user procedures to ensure 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 organizational 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 ensure IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Assess 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 Assess the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to ensure the availability of information needed to resume processing.
- 4.11 Assess the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine its ability to recover 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 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 organizational 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
This non-certification course does not require any specific prerequisites.
35 Hours
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