Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Course Overview

This course is designed to help candidates prepare for sitting the ISACA CISA certification examination. By taking this course and obtaining CISA certification, your experience and skills in auditing and securing the organization’s information systems will be validated. Securing the organization’s information is a critical business objective in today’s business environment. The information that an organization depends on to be successful can be at risk from numerous sources. By effectively managing audit processes, controls, and other security aspects of the business, you will greatly contribute to the overall security of the organization.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• implement information systems audit services in accordance with information systems audit standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• evaluate an organizations structure, policies, accountability, mechanisms, and monitoring practices.
• evaluate information systems acquisition, development, and implementation.
• evaluate the information systems operations, maintenance, and support of an organization; and evaluate the business continuity and disaster recovery processes used to provide assurance that in the event of a disruption, IT services are maintained.
• define the protection policies used to promote the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.

Course Outline:

Domain 1: Information System Auditing Process
Domain 2: Governance and Management of IT
Domain 3: Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Implementation
Domain 4: IS Operations and Business Resilience
Domain 5: Information Asset Security and Control