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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to help the organization protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy that complies with IT audit standards, ensuring all key areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to determine if information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits in compliance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide 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 actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Assure that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, 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 verify that IT decisions, directions, and performance align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess 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 its direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine if they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to ensure it supports the organization’s strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, utilization, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies and policies, as well as contract management practices, to determine if they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to ensure 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 about IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate 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%)
Assure 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 if it meets business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are achieved cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately documented, and if status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate information systems readiness for implementation and migration into production to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Assure 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 ensure they continue to meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine if the level of service from internal and external providers is defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the level of controls expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to ensure it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organization’s objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimization.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine if IT services meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved in a timely manner.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the organization’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 Assess the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine if it enables the recovery of 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 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 the organization’s 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 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
There are no specific prerequisites for this non-certification course.
35 Hours
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