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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 organization safeguard and control its information systems.
- 1.1 Formulate and execute a risk-based IT audit strategy aligned with IT audit standards to ensure coverage of key areas.
- 1.2 Plan specific audits to ascertain whether information systems are adequately protected, controlled, and deliver value to the organization.
- 1.3 Execute audits in line with IT audit standards to meet planned audit objectives.
- 1.4 Report audit findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders to communicate results and facilitate necessary changes.
- 1.5 Conduct follow-ups or prepare status reports to ensure management has taken appropriate actions in a timely manner.
Domain 2—Governance and Management of IT (14%)
Provide assurance that the necessary leadership, organizational structure, and processes are established to achieve objectives and support the organization's strategy.
- 2.1 Assess the effectiveness of the IT governance structure to verify that 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 determine their support for the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.3 Review the IT strategy, including direction, and the processes for its development, approval, implementation, and maintenance to ensure alignment with organizational strategies and objectives.
- 2.4 Assess the organization’s IT policies, standards, and procedures, along with the processes for their development, approval, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring, to ensure they support the IT strategy and comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
- 2.5 Evaluate the adequacy of the quality management system to confirm it supports the organization’s strategies and objectives cost-effectively.
- 2.6 Assess IT management and control monitoring (e.g., continuous monitoring, QA) for compliance with the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
- 2.7 Review IT resource investment, usage, and allocation practices, including prioritization criteria, for alignment with the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.8 Evaluate IT contracting strategies, policies, and contract management practices to ensure they support the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 2.9 Assess risk management practices to determine if the organization’s IT-related risks are properly managed.
- 2.10 Evaluate monitoring and assurance practices to ensure the board and executive management receive sufficient and timely information regarding IT performance.
- 2.11 Assess the organization’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 the acquisition, development, testing, and implementation of information systems meet the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 3.1 Assess the business case for proposed investments in information systems acquisition, development, maintenance, and eventual retirement to determine if they meet business objectives.
- 3.2 Evaluate project management practices and controls to ascertain whether business requirements are achieved cost-effectively while managing organizational risks.
- 3.3 Conduct reviews to verify that projects are progressing according to plans, are adequately documented, and that status reporting is accurate.
- 3.4 Assess controls for information systems during the requirements, acquisition, development, and testing phases to ensure compliance with the organization's policies, standards, procedures, and external requirements.
- 3.5 Evaluate the readiness of information systems for implementation and migration to production to determine if project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
- 3.6 Conduct post-implementation reviews of systems to verify that project deliverables, controls, and organizational requirements are met.
Domain 4—Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and Support (23%)
Provide assurance that processes for information systems operations, maintenance, and support meet the organization’s strategies and objectives.
- 4.1 Conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine if they continue to meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.2 Evaluate service level management practices to ascertain whether 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 control levels expected by the organization.
- 4.4 Evaluate operations and end-user procedures to ensure scheduled and unscheduled processes are managed to completion.
- 4.5 Assess the information systems maintenance process to determine if it is effectively controlled and continues to support the organization’s objectives.
- 4.6 Evaluate data administration practices to determine the integrity and optimization of databases.
- 4.7 Assess the use of capacity and performance monitoring tools and techniques to determine if IT services meet the organization’s objectives.
- 4.8 Evaluate problem and incident management practices to ensure incidents, problems, or errors are recorded, analyzed, and resolved promptly.
- 4.9 Assess change, configuration, and release management practices to verify that scheduled and unscheduled 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 organization’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 organization’s security policies, standards, procedures, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.
- 5.1 Assess information security policies, standards, and procedures for completeness and alignment 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 Assess the design, implementation, and monitoring of data classification processes and procedures to ensure alignment with the organization’s policies, standards, procedures, and applicable external requirements.
- 5.4 Evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of physical access and environmental controls to determine if information assets are adequately safeguarded.
- 5.5 Assess the processes and procedures for storing, retrieving, transporting, and disposing of information assets (e.g., backup media, offsite storage, hard copy/print data, and softcopy media) to ensure information assets are adequately safeguarded.
Requirements
There are no specific pre-requisites required for this non-certification course.
35 Hours
Testimonials (2)
1. The BCS test exam questions were often incoherent or not related to the syllabus - which appears to be a trait of BCS course and exams 2. the subject matter was taught reading powerpoint slides full of text - the BCS should be providing at least some diagrammatic content and other visual aids especially as many people learn in very different ways - more than just reading text.
john - UKHO
Course - BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Assurance Architecture (CIAA)
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