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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services in compliance with IT audit standards to help the organization safeguard and control information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy that adheres to IT audit standards, ensuring the inclusion of critical areas.
- 1.2 Design specific audits to verify that information systems are properly protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits in line with IT audit standards to meet predefined audit goals.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to disseminate results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Execute follow-ups or generate status reports to confirm that management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that the requisite 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 framework 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 Review the IT strategy, including direction and the processes for 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 the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Review IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to ensure the organization’s IT-related risks are appropriately managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Review the organization’s business continuity plan to assess 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 acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing 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 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 Perform reviews to verify that projects progress 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 are 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 Perform 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 Assess third-party management practices to ensure providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Review operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate information systems maintenance processes to ensure they are effectively controlled and continue to support organizational objectives.
- 4.6 Assess data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimization of databases.
- 4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to ensure IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Assess problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Evaluate change, configuration, and release management practices to ensure 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 ensure the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Review 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%)
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 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 organizational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure 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 ensure information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
This non-certification course has no mandatory prerequisites.
35 Hours
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