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Certificate
Course Outline
Objective:
The primary objective is to help you pass the CISA examination on your first attempt.
Information System Auditing Process (21%)
Deliver audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to assist organizations in protecting and controlling their information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards to ensure coverage of key areas.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify that information systems are protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits in accordance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
Governance and Management of IT (17%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, and processes are in place to achieve objectives and support the organization's strategy.
- 2.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine if IT decisions, directions, and performance support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess the IT organizational structure and human resources management to ensure they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure 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 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to determine if it supports organizational strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with organizational policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to determine if 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 regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate the organization’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to maintain essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Information Systems Acquisition, Development and implementation (12%)
Provide assurance that practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and retirement to determine alignment with business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that 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 to ensure compliance with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess 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 are met.
Information Systems Operation and Business Resilience (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support align with organizational 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 service levels from internal and external providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Assess operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate 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 database integrity and optimization.
- 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 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 Evaluate the organization’s disaster recovery plan to determine if it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Protection of Information Assets (27%)
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 to ensure 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 Evaluate the processes and procedures used to store, retrieve, transport, and dispose of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/printed data, and softcopy media) to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
- 5 years of professional experience in IT auditing or security.
- Fundamental knowledge in IT operations, business support through information technology, and internal control.
The required work experience can be reduced to 4 years if you hold a bachelor's degree, or to 3 years if you hold a master's degree.
You are permitted to sit for the exam even if you have not yet met the work experience requirements. However, you must fulfill these requirements within 5 years of the exam date. Failure to do so will result in your exam score being invalidated.
Target Audience
- Auditors
- IT system auditors
- IT infrastructure managers,
- Risk management or business continuity managers,
- Professionals responsible for all aspects of IT management
28 Hours
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Mohamed Romdhani - Shams Power
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