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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in line with IT audit standards to assist the organisation in protecting and controlling information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy in compliance with IT audit standards to ensure key areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to determine whether information systems are protected, controlled and delivering value to the organisation.
- 1.3 Conduct 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 change where necessary.
- 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%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organisational structure and processes are in place to achieve objectives and support the organisation's strategy.
- 2.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine whether IT decisions, direction and performance support the organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organisational structure and human resources (personnel) management to determine whether they support the organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including IT direction, and the processes for the strategy's development, approval, implementation and maintenance to ensure alignment with the organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Evaluate the organisation'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 organisation's strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organisation's policies, standards and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, use and allocation practices, including prioritisation criteria, for alignment with the organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies and policies, and contract management practices, to determine whether they support the organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to determine whether the organisation'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 organisation's business continuity plan to determine its ability to continue 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 organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate the business case for proposed investments in information system acquisition, development, maintenance and subsequent 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 risks to the organisation.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine whether a project is progressing in accordance with project plans, is adequately supported by documentation and whether status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development and testing phases for compliance with the organisation'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 the organisation's requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to determine whether project deliverables, controls and the organisation's 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 organisation's strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine whether they continue to meet the organisation's objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine whether service levels from internal and external providers are clearly defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to determine whether the levels of controls expected by the organisation are being adhered to by the provider.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate the process of information systems maintenance to determine whether they are controlled effectively and continue to support the organisation's objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimisation of databases.
- 4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine whether IT services meet the organisation's objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to determine whether incidents, problems or errors are recorded, analysed and resolved in a timely manner.
- 4.9 Evaluate change, configuration and release management practices to determine whether scheduled and non-scheduled changes made to the organisation'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 organisation's disaster recovery plan to determine whether it enables the recovery of 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 Evaluate 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 organisation'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/print data and softcopy media) to determine whether information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
There are no set prerequisites 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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