Course Overview
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification course is aligned with the latest edition of the CISA exam. It’ll give you the skillsets to govern and control enterprise IT and perform an effective security audit on any organization. You’ll gain expertise in the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems and learn the guidelines, standards, and best practices of protecting them.
Learning Objectives
Be able to identify and assess vulnerabilities and report on compliance and institutional controls.
Gain a better understanding of IS audit and assurance guidelines, standards, and best practices.
Learn how to govern and control enterprise IT environments.
Understand the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems.
Develop working knowledge of the five domains of CISA, as prescribed by ISACA.
Acquire the relevant knowledge and skills required to pass the CISA certification exam by ISACA.
Prerequisites
To get your CISA certification, you need to:
- Submit the complete application within five years from the date of initially passing the examination
- Get all the experience you’ve listed verified by your employers. The experience should have been gained within the 10-year period preceding the date of application, or within five years of passing the examination.
Course Curriculum
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Topic Covered:
- Plan an audit to determine whether information systems are protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- Conduct an audit in accordance with IS audit standards and a risk-based IS audit strategy.
- Communicate audit progress, findings, results and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Conduct audit follow-up to evaluate whether risk has been sufficiently addressed.
- Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls.
- Utilize data analytics tools to streamline audit processes.
- Provide consulting services and guidance to the organization in order to improve the quality and control of information systems.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement in the organization’s IT policies and practices.
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Topic Covered:
- Evaluate the IT strategy for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of IT governance structure and IT organizational structure.
- Evaluate the organization’s management of IT policies and practices.
- Evaluate the organization’s IT policies and practices for compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
- Evaluate IT resource and portfolio management for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- Evaluate the organization’s risk management policies and practices.
- Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls.
- Evaluate the monitoring and reporting of IT key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Evaluate whether IT supplier selection and contract management processes align with business requirements.
- Evaluate whether IT service management practices align with business requirements.
- Conduct periodic review of information systems and enterprise architecture.
- Evaluate data governance policies and practices.
- Evaluate the information security program to determine its effectiveness and alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- Evaluate potential opportunities and threats associated with emerging technologies, regulations, and industry practices
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Topic Covered:
- Evaluate whether the business case for proposed changes to information systems meet business objectives.
- Evaluate the organization’s project management policies and practices.
- Evaluate controls at all stages of the information systems development life cycle.
- Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production.
- Conduct post-implementation review of systems to determine whether project deliverables, controls and requirements are met.
- Evaluate change, configuration, release, and patch management policies and practices.
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Topic Covered:
- Evaluate the organization’s ability to continue business operations.
- Evaluate whether IT service management practices align with business requirements.
- Conduct periodic review of information systems and enterprise architecture.
- Evaluate IT operations to determine whether they are controlled effectively and continue to support the organization’s objectives.
- Evaluate IT maintenance practices to determine whether they are controlled effectively and continue to support the organization’s objectives.
- Evaluate database management practices.
- Evaluate data governance policies and practices.
- Evaluate problem and incident management policies and practices.
- Evaluate change, configuration, release, and patch management policies and practices.
- Evaluate end-user computing to determine whether the processes are effectively controlled.
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Topic Covered:
- Conduct audit in accordance with IS audit standards and a risk-based IS audit strategy.
- Evaluate problem and incident management policies and practices.
- Evaluate the organization’s information security and privacy policies and practices.
- Evaluate physical and environmental controls to determine whether information assets are adequately safeguarded.
- Evaluate logical security controls to verify the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- Evaluate data classification practices for alignment with the organization’s policies and applicable external requirements.
- Evaluate policies and practices related to asset life cycle management.
- Evaluate the information security program to determine its effectiveness and alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- Perform technical security testing to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities.
- Evaluate potential opportunities and threats associated with emerging technologies, regulations, and industry practices.
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