Why Certified Information Systems Auditor Certification Is Needed

Managing an account of a company is like keeping your home accounts. Like this managing an IT company is also indeed difficult. To help the audit the accounts of IT Company International Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) has founded Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA training ) in the year 1978.The ISACA has developed some standards with globally accepted for methods for Information Systems (IS) audit, control, and security professionals.

This training course will develop trainee’s skills and knowledge to attend the CISA certification examination. The CISA training is most sought after certification by organizations in the world and signals the trainee commitment to serve the organization in IS audit, control and security Industry.

This training course has seven modules that come under the ambit of body of knowledge covered by the CISA examination. The course will teach Information Systems professionals with skills, knowledge, and technical expertise to get the CISA certification.

Certification course details

The CISA examination is conducted in the months of June and December every year. The exam paper has 200 multiple choice questions.

To pass the examination all you have to learn in training is as follows. There are five domains for you which under the CISA exam will be conducted.

The Process of Auditing Information Systems

Governance and Management of IT

Information systems Acquisition, Development, and Implementation

Information Systems Operations, Maintenance and support

Protection of Information Assets

Who are eligible for taking CISA Certification?

The following professionals with minimum 5 year experience in IT field with IS audit, control, assurance, and security field including  IT consultants, auditors, managers, security policy writers, privacy officers, information security officers, network administrators, security device administrators, and security engineers.

Prerequisites

Professionals with this experience with above mentioned from systems administration, well versed with TCP/IP and knowledge of UNIX, Linux and windows.

The CISA –Certified Information Systems Auditor course outline details are as listed below.

Course Outline

1 .Testing taking tips and study techniques

     Prepare yourself for CISA exam

    Submission of required paperwork

    Resources and study aids

     Make you pass in the first attempt

2. Audit process

    Risk

    Audit

   Standards and guidelines

3. IT Governance

      Best practices

      Management practices

      Roles and responsibilities

4 .Lifecycle management

      Project management

      Business application development

       Information systems maintenance practices

5.  System Infrastructure control

      Auditing Application controls

      Application systems development

       Business applications systems

6.  Information Systems Hardware and Architecture

      Information systems hardware

   Information systems operations

   SDLC

   Databases

7. Information Systems used for IT delivery and support

    OSI

    TCP/IP model

    TCP.UDP/ICMP/IP

    Routers/switches/hubs

    Firewalls

    Wireless

   WAN Technologies – X.2.5/Frame relay/PPP/ISDN/DSL/Cable

8. Protection of Logical assets

    CIA

    Roles and responsibilities

    Asset management

    Taxonomy –information classification

    Risk management

    Policies, procedures, guidelines, standards, and baselines

    Knowledge transfer –awareness, training, and education

9. Physical security

    Environmental protection practices

    Physical authentication

    Policies and procedures

10. Business continuity and Disaster recovery

      BIA policy

      BIA roles and teams

      Data backups, vaulting, Journaling, and shadowing

      Alternate sites

      Emergency response

       Required notifications

       BIA tests

11. Review and Q&A session

       Final review and test preparation

On the above terms the CISA certification training program will be done and it is up to you to learn and pass the CISA certification.