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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 help the organization protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Design and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards, ensuring coverage of critical areas.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to assess whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and deliver 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 offer recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to verify that management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance 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 IT decisions, directions, and performance align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine their support for the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including IT direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Evaluate 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 the organization’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and control monitoring (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 the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine their support for the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to determine if the organization’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate 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 determine its ability to sustain essential business operations during IT disruptions.
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 organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and eventual retirement to ensure 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 ensure projects are progressing according to plans, are adequately documented, and have accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements have been met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet organizational objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine if the service levels from internal and external providers are clearly defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate 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 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimization of databases.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to ensure IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved timely.
- 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 Evaluate the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to ensure the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Assess the organization’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 organization’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 Assess 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 organizational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure 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 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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