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Certificate
Course Outline
Goal:
The ultimate goal is to successfully pass the CISA examination on the first attempt.
Information System Auditing Process (21%)
Provide audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to assist organizations in protecting and controlling information systems for government use.
- 1.1 Develop and implement a risk-based IT audit strategy compliant with IT audit standards to ensure key areas are addressed.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to determine if information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and provide value to the organization.
- 1.3 Conduct audits in accordance with IT audit standards to achieve planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and make recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and effect necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure appropriate actions have been taken by management in a timely manner.
Governance and Management of IT (17%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, and processes are in place to achieve objectives and support the organization’s strategy for government operations.
- 2.1 Evaluate the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to determine if IT decisions, directions, and performance align with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.2 Evaluate the IT organizational structure and human resources management to ensure they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Evaluate the IT strategy, including direction and processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance, to ensure alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Evaluate the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, and the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to determine if they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to ensure it supports the organization’s strategies and objectives in a cost-effective manner.
- 2.6 Evaluate IT management and monitoring of controls (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Evaluate IT resource investment, use, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, to ensure alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies and policies, and contract management practices to determine if they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Evaluate risk management practices to determine if the organization’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to ensure that the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information about IT performance.
- 2.11 Evaluate the organization’s business continuity plan to determine its ability to continue essential business operations during an IT disruption.
Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation (12%)
Provide assurance that practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems meet the organization’s strategies and objectives for government use.
- 3.1 Evaluate the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and subsequent retirement to determine if they align with business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to ensure business requirements are met cost-effectively while managing risks to the organization.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to determine if a project is progressing according to plans, is adequately supported by documentation, and status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Evaluate controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases to ensure compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration into production to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to ensure that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Information Systems Operation and Business Resilience (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support meet the organization’s strategies and objectives for government use.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to ensure they continue to meet organizational objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to determine if the level of service from internal and external service providers is defined and managed effectively.
- 4.3 Evaluate third-party management practices to ensure that the levels of controls expected by the organization are adhered to by providers.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and non-scheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Evaluate information systems maintenance processes to ensure they are controlled effectively and continue to support organizational objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to ensure the integrity and optimization of databases.
- 4.7 Evaluate the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to ensure IT services meet organizational 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 non-scheduled changes made to the organization’s 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 Evaluate the disaster recovery plan to ensure it enables the recovery of IT processing capabilities in the event of a disaster.
Protection of Information Assets (27%)
Provide assurance that the organization’s security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets for government use.
- 5.1 Evaluate the completeness and alignment of information security policies, standards, and procedures 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 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes and procedures for alignment with organizational policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to ensure 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 they are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
- Five years of professional experience in IT auditing or security.
- Basic knowledge in the areas of information technology operations, business support through information technology, and internal control.
The required work experience can be reduced to four years if the candidate holds a bachelor's degree, or to three years if they hold a master's degree.
Candidates may take the exam without meeting the full work experience requirements. However, all conditions must be fulfilled within five years from the date of the exam. If these conditions are not met within this timeframe, the passing score will become invalid.
Audience for Government
- auditors
- IT system auditors
- IT infrastructure managers
- risk management or business continuity managers
- individuals responsible for all aspects of IT management
28 Hours
Testimonials (2)
Questions, that helps me a lot to understand the characteristics of CRISC examination.
Masakazu Yoshijima - Bank of Yokohama, Ltd.
Course - CRISC - Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
I genuinely was benefit from the communication skills of the trainer.
