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Course Outline
Domain 1—The Process of Auditing Information Systems (14%)
Deliver audit services aligned with IT audit standards to help the organization protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards to ensure critical areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to verify that information systems are protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits in accordance with IT audit standards to meet planned objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-up activities or prepare status reports to ensure management takes timely corrective actions.
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 determine if IT decisions, direction, and performance support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Assess the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine if they align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Review 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 Assess IT management and monitoring of controls (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 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support 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 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to determine if the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess 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%)
Provide assurance that practices for acquiring, developing, testing, and implementing information systems align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate 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 ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plan, adequately documented, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate 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 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.
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 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 levels of control expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate 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 the organization’s 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 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 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 determine 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.
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 the organization’s 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/print data, and softcopy media) to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
This non-certification course does not require any specific prerequisites.
35 Hours
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