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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 protect and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Develop and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy in accordance with IT audit standards to ensure key areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to assess whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and delivering value to the organization.
- 1.3 Perform audits according to IT audit standards to achieve the 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 appropriate actions in a timely manner.
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 verify that IT decisions, direction, and performance align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resource (personnel) management to determine their support for the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Review the IT strategy, including its direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure 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 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 the organization’s 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, for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine their support for 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 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about 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 subsequent retirement to ensure they meet business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to verify that business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately documented, and has accurate status reporting.
- 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 the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration to production to ensure project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation reviews of systems to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements have been 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 determine if they continue to meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to ensure the level of service from internal and external providers is defined and managed.
- 4.3 Assess third-party management practices to verify that providers adhere to the level of controls expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to determine if scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the process of information systems maintenance 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 verify that 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 verify that 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 ensure 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%)
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 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 ensure information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
This non-certification course has no mandatory prerequisites.
35 Hours
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