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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, ensuring coverage of critical areas.
- 1.1 Plan targeted audits to verify that information systems are protected, controlled, and deliver organizational value.
- 1.3 Execute audits in compliance with IT audit standards to meet predetermined audit goals.
- 1.4 Communicate audit results to key stakeholders and offer recommendations to drive necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-ups or issue status reports to confirm that management has taken timely and appropriate actions.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Assure that the required 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, direction, and performance align with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to determine their support for organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including its direction and the processes for development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, to ensure alignment with organizational strategies.
- 2.4 Review the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to verify support for IT strategy and compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Assess the quality management system’s adequacy to determine if it supports organizational strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with organizational policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Assess IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Review IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to ensure they support organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to confirm that IT-related risks are appropriately managed.
- 2.10 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information on IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate the organization’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to sustain essential operations during IT disruptions.
Domain 3—Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (19%)
Assure 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 information systems investments, including 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 verify that projects follow established plans, are well-documented, and have accurate status reporting.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases to ensure compliance with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate system readiness for implementation and migration into production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are satisfied.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation system reviews to confirm that 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 align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to verify they continue to meet organizational objectives.
- 4.2 Assess service level management practices to ensure the service levels provided by internal and external service providers are defined and managed.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to verify that providers adhere to the control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Review operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess information systems maintenance processes to ensure they are effectively controlled and continue to support organizational objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to ensure database integrity and optimization.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to verify that IT services meet organizational objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved promptly.
- 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 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 effectiveness in recovering IT processing capabilities after 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 widely 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 to ensure alignment with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure information assets are adequately protected.
- 5.5 Assess processes and procedures for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/print data, and softcopy media) to ensure adequate protection.
Requirements
No specific prerequisites are required for this non-certification course.
35 Hours
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