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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 assist the organisation in safeguarding and controlling information systems.
- 1.1 Design and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy in line with IT audit standards, ensuring critical areas are covered.
- 1.1 Plan targeted audits to ascertain whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organisation.
- 1.3 Execute audits in adherence to IT audit standards to meet planned objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and offer recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate outcomes and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management takes timely and appropriate actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organisational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organisation’s strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to ensure IT decisions, directions, and performance align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organisational structure and human resources management to determine their alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Review the IT strategy, including direction and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, for alignment with organisational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organisation’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to ensure support for the IT strategy and compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to ensure it supports the organisation’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Review IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with organisational policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Assess IT resource investment, utilisation, and allocation practices, including prioritisation criteria, for alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to ensure they support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to determine if the organisation’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Review monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information on IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate the organisation’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to sustain essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Provide assurance that practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and eventual retirement to verify alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Review project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organisational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if projects are progressing according to plans, are adequately documented, and have accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organisational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation reviews of systems to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements are satisfied.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to verify they continue to meet the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.2 Assess service level management practices to determine if service levels from internal and external providers are clearly defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organisation.
- 4.4 Review operations and end-user procedures to verify that scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to ensure effective control and continued support for organisational objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimisation of databases.
- 4.7 Review the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to verify IT services meet organisational objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analysed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Evaluate 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 required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Review the organisation’s disaster recovery plan to determine its ability to restore IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
Provide assurance that the organisation’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 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 and procedures for alignment with organisational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of 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/print data, and softcopy media) to ensure adequate safeguarding.
Requirements
No specific prerequisites are required for this non-certification course.
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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