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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 organisation protect and manage information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy aligned with IT audit standards to ensure all critical areas are covered.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to ascertain whether information systems are protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organisation.
- 1.3 Execute audits in line with IT audit standards to meet planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Communicate audit findings and recommendations to key stakeholders to facilitate results dissemination and necessary changes.
- 1.5 Perform follow-ups or prepare 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, organisational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organisation's strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to verify if IT decisions, directions, and performance support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organisational structure and human resources management to determine alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Assess the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with organisational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Review the organisation’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring processes, to confirm 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 organisation’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and monitoring of controls (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organisation’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritisation criteria, for alignment with the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Assess IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support the organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to ensure the organisation’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Assess monitoring and assurance practices to verify that the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information on IT performance.
- 2.11 Review the organisation’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 organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Evaluate the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and retirement to determine if it meets business objectives.
- 3.2 Assess project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing organisational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that projects are progressing according to plans, supported by adequate documentation, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases for compliance with organisational policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Assess the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production to confirm that project deliverables, controls, and organisational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Perform post-implementation reviews of systems to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organisational 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 organisation’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet the organisation’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 verify that providers adhere to the levels of control expected by the organisation.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to ensure it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine database integrity and optimisation.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to verify that IT services meet the organisation’s objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analysed, and resolved timely.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled changes to the production environment are adequately controlled and documented.
- 4.10 Evaluate the adequacy of backup and restore provisions to determine the availability of information required to resume processing.
- 4.11 Assess the organisation’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 organisation’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 organisational policies, standards, procedures, and 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 ensure information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
No specific prerequisites are required for this non-certification course.
35 Hours
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