CISA Exam Boot Camp

About this Course

The course will begin with a review of the IS audit process based upon internationally accepted audit standards. The student will learn methods for conducting a risk assessment as well as techniques to successfully evaluate the effectiveness of Information Technology (IT) controls based upon the identified risks. Students will also become familiar with Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) from an IS auditor’s perspective. The course will also review the processes for ensuring the organizational strategies and objectives are met not only during the acquisition, development and testing phases of the systems life cycle but also during the operations and maintenances phases.

Audience Profile

Primary audience for this course are:

• IT Auditors
• Security Auditors
• Information Systems Managers
• Internal Audit Directors
• Security Analysts
• Risk Analysts
• Compliance Managers
• IT Project Managers
• Security Managers and Directors

At Course Completion

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

Course Outline

1) The Process of Auditing Information Systems

Provide audit services in accordance with IT audit standards to assist the organization in protecting and controlling information systems.

1. Audit process / IT audit standards
2. Audit & risk
3. Control objectives and controls
4. Audit planning
5. Audit QA

2) Governance and Management of IT

Provide assurance that the necessary leadership and organization structure and processes are in place to achieve objectives and to support the organization's strategy.

1. Governance
2. Roles / responsibilities
3. Policies / standards / guidelines
4. Enterprise Risk management
5. Information Security Strategy
6. Quality management
7. Resource management
8. Human Resources
9. Contract management
10. Business Continuity Planning

3) Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation

Provide assurance that the practices for the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems meet the organization’s strategies and objectives.

1. Benefit realization
2. Project / program management
3. IT architectures
4. Acquisition
5. Project risk analysis / management
6. SDLC
7. Development methodologies
8. Configuration management / release management
9. Migration
10. Post implementation

4) Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support

Provide assurance that the processes for information systems operations, maintenance and support meet the organization’s strategies and objectives.

1. Third parties management
2. Operations
3. Databases
4. Capacity planning
5. System interfaces
6. Software
7. Incident management
8. Configuration Management
9. Disaster Recovery Planning
10. Backup & restoration

5) Protection of Information Assets

Provide assurance that the organization’s security policies, standards, procedures and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets.

1. Confidentiality - Integrity - Availability
2. Identification - Authentication - Authorization - Accounting
3. Policies / Standards / Baselines / Guidelines
4. Security awareness
5. Access controls
6. Controls
7. Encryption
8. Public Key Infrastructure
9. Mobile / wireless
10. Data classification
11. Environmental protection
12. Forensics
13. VOIP security
14. Social media security