Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Enhance your career by earning CISA—world-renowned as the standard of achievement for those who audit, control, monitor and assessBenefits of CISA Certification
CISA enhances credibility and recognition: CISA is globally recognized as the mark of excellence for the IS audit professional. CISA combines the achievement of passing a comprehensive
exam with recognition of work and educational experience, providing you with credibility in the marketplace.
CISA means higher earning potential and career advancement: Recent independent studies consistently rank CISA as one of the highest paying and sought after IT certifications.
Topics Covered
The IS Audit Process (10% of exam) Discuss IS audit services in accordance with IS audit standards, guidelines, and best practices. IS audit services are used to assist the organization in ensuring that its information technology and business systems are protected and controlled.
Relate how successful governance provides assurance to the organization that it has the structure, policies, accountability, mechanisms and monitoring practices in place to effectively govern their information technology infrastructure.
Systems and Infrastructure Life Cycle Management (16% of exam) Show how Life Cycle Management processes provide assurance that the management practices for the development/acquisition, testing, implementation, maintenance and disposal of systems and infrastructure will meet the organization’s business objectives.
IT Service Delivery and Support (14% of exam)
Describe how service delivery and support enable IT service management to provide the level of services required to meet the organization’s business objectives.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (14% of exam)
Establish the vital need of sound BCP/DRP and show how, in the event of a disruption, the business continuity and disaster recovery processes will ensure the timely resumption of IT services, while minimizing the business impact.
Who Would Benefit
Information Systems Auditors seeking exam prep for the ISACA CISA certification.
Prerequisites
CISA certification requires a minimum of five years of professional information systems auditing, control or security work experience is required for certification.
Required training
- What is this course about?
CISA training from Amazon Group is aligned to ISACA and ensures that you ace the exam in your first attempt. The training will help you have an improved understanding of IS security audit processes and better awareness on how to protect information systems.
- What are the Course Objectives?
By the end of this training you will:
- Be able to identify and assess vulnerabilities, report on compliance and institute controls.
- Acquire the relevant knowledge and skills required to clear the CISA certification exam by ISACA.
- Gain a better understanding of IS Audit and Assurance Guidelines, Standards and best practices for IS audit and control, governance of enterprise IT, acquisition, development, testing and implementation of information systems.
- Develop a working knowledge in the five domains of CISA, as prescribed by ISACA.
Who should do this course?
This training is an essential professional requirement for professionals who are responsible for controlling, monitoring and assessing an organization’s information technology and business systems. Applicable careers positions include:
- IS / IT Auditor/Consultants
- IT Compliance Manager
- · Chief Compliance Officer
- · Chief Risk & Privacy Officer
- · Security Head / Director
- · Security Manager / Architect
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
CISM means higher earning potential and career advancement. Recent independent studies consistently rank CISM as one of the highest paying and sought after IT certifications.Demonstrate your information security management expertise. The uniquely management-focused CISM certification promotes international security practices and recognizes the individual who manages designs, and oversees and assesses an enterprise’s information security
Topics Covered
The CISM certification is intended to provide a common body of knowledge for information security management; focuses on information risk management as the basis of information
security; and includes material on issues that are on a much larger scope (such as how to govern information security) as well as those issues considered practical (such as developing and managing an information security program
and incidents). The CISM exam is offered each year in June and December and consists of 200 multiple-choice questions. The CISM exam is focused on the five domains defined by ISACA.
Who Would Benefit
The advanced-level CISM better addresses the interdependency between business needs and IT security by focusing on risk management and security organizational issues. The CISM certification is best for those students who manages, designs, oversees and/or assesses an enterprise's information security (IS). The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification program is developed specifically for experienced information security managers and those who have information security management responsibilities. Our CISM certification training program will provide you with a quality education that will successfully prepare you for what you will encounter on the certification exam and while on the job.
Prerequisites
Submit verified evidence of a minimum of five years of information security work experience, with a minimum of three years of information security management work experience in three or more of the job practice analysis areas. The work experience must be gained within the ten-year period preceding the application date for certification or within five years from the date of originally passing the exam.
Experience Substitutions The following security-related certifications and information systems management experience can be used to satisfy the indicated amount of information security work experience.
Two Years:
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) in good standing
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) in good standing
- Post-graduate degree in information security or a related field (e.g., business administration, information systems, information assurance)
One Year:
- One full year of information systems management experience
- One full year of general security management experience
- Skill-based security certifications (e.g., SANS Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), CompTIA Security +, Disaster Recovery Institute Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), ESL IT Security Manager)
- Completion of an information security management program at an institution aligned with the Model Curriculum
The experience substitutions will not satisfy any portion of the three-year information security management work experience requirement.
Exception: Two years as a full-time university instructor teaching the management of information security can be substituted for every one year of information security experience.
Required training
- What is this course about?
CISM training from Amazon Group, aligned to ISACA, ensures you are re-equipped on the best practices in the industry and enables you to ace the exam in the first attempt. The certification helps you develop the expertise to manage, design, oversee and/or assess an enterprise’s information security.
- What are the course objectives?
By the end of this training you will:
- Be able to define the architecture, design and manage the security of your organization.
- Acquire the relevant knowledge and skills required to clear the CISM certification exam
- Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the relationship between information security programs and broader business goals and objectives.
- Develop a working knowledge of the 4 domains areas as prescribed by ISACA –Exam Candidate Information Guide 2015.