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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in alignment with IT audit standards to help the organization protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards to ensure critical areas are addressed.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify that information systems are properly protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits in accordance with IT audit standards to meet planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and offer recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management takes timely and appropriate corrective actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that appropriate leadership, organizational structures, and processes are in place to achieve objectives and support the organization's strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine if IT decisions, direction, and performance align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine if they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including direction and processes for development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, for 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 comply with 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 Evaluate 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, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate 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 appropriately managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to determine if the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organization’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to maintain 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 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 alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to determine if business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plan, adequately documented, and if 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 Evaluate 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 determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (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 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 Evaluate 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 non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate the information systems maintenance process to determine if 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 determine if IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to determine if incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Evaluate change, configuration, and release management practices to determine if scheduled and non-scheduled 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 needed to resume processing.
- 4.11 Evaluate the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine if it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities following a disaster.
Domain 5—Protection of Information Assets (30%)
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 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 processes and procedures for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/softcopy data) to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
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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