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CISA Cert Prep: 1 Auditing Information Systems for IS Auditors

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Overview

Get the knowledge you need to prepare for the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification exam.

Syllabus

Module 1: Information Systems Auditing Process
  • CISA welcome and intro
  • Introduction to IS audit
  • Information Technology Assurance Framework (ITAF)
  • Audit strategy
  • Laws and regulations
  • Business processes
  • Types of controls
  • Risk-based audit, part 1
  • Risk-based audit, part 2
  • Audit execution
  • Audit evidence collection
  • Sampling
  • Communication of results
  • Additional types of audit
Module 2: Governance and Management of IT
  • Enterprise risk management
  • Introduction to IT governance
  • IT frameworks
  • Frameworks continued
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Evaluation of controls
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Information security strategy
  • Information security program
  • Quality control and security management
  • Roles and responsibilities
Module 3: Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementations
  • Introduction To project management
  • Project management lifecycle
  • Project management documents throughout the lifecycle
  • Software development methodologies
  • Hardware and software acquisitions
  • Control identification and design
  • Testing
  • System migration and changeover
Module 4: Information Systems Operations and Business Resilience
  • Introduction
  • Data governance
  • The data lifecycle
  • Software and systems and APIs
  • Cloud deployment
  • Problem and incident management
  • IS operations
  • Database management
  • Redundancy
  • Business continuity, part 1
  • Components of the plan
  • Business continuity, part 2
Module 5: Information Asset Security and Control
  • Introduction and privacy principles
  • Physical and environmental controls
  • Identity and access management
  • SOCs and SLAs
  • Networking basics
  • The OSI and TCP reference models
  • OSI Layers 1 and 2
  • OSI Layers 3–7 and TCP model
  • Network devices
  • NAT and PAT
  • Firewalls
  • Additional security devices, part 1
  • Additional security devices, part 2
  • Cryptography basics
  • Symmetric cryptography
  • Asymmetric cryptography
  • Hybrid cryptography
  • Integrity
  • PKI and wrap-up
  • Wireless security
  • Indicators of attacks, part 1
  • Indicators of attacks, part 2
  • Indicators for application attacks
  • Cross-site attacks
  • Timing attacks
  • Memory issues
  • Network-based attacks
  • Threat actors and vectors

Taught by

Michael Lester and Human Element LLC

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