Successful information systems (IS) auditing requires many components and controls, beginning with the nature of a business, its driving processes, and underlying IT solutions. In this course, you will discover auditing, data analysis, and control, beginning with audit findings remediation follow-up, sampling methods, and audit evidence gathering. Then you will explore data analytics and systems auditing, the role of the data analyst, and auditing quality assurance. Next, you will focus on organizational documentation and stakeholder needs. Finally, you will learn about network diagrams, types of security controls, and control objectives and controls. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Successful organizations implement information systems (IS) auditing, controls, monitoring, and assessments of their IT and business systems. In this course, you will discover the keys to conducting a successful audit. First, you will be introduced to information systems auditing, beginning with an explanation of why we audit. Then you will examine the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) code of professional ethics and review IS auditing procedures and ISACA auditing standards. Next, you will explore business procedures and controls, risk-based auditing, and other types of audits. Finally, you will investigate auditing project management, audit planning, audit scheduling, urgent incident discovery, and audit reporting. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Effective IT management provides a structured approach to managing and auditing IT assets. It also provides a foundation for auditing, an important feature for information system (IS) auditors. In this course, you will discover key facets of information systems management, beginning with system interfaces and end-user computing. Then you will examine change management, configuration management, and vulnerability management. Finally, you will explore group policy configuration delegation, Microsoft Configuration Manager configuration management, Microsoft Configuration Manager patch deployment, and job scheduling. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

IT management frameworks provide a structured approach to managing and auditing IT assets. Regulations and standards are put in place to ensure that organizations have guidelines to follow for how they deal with information systems. In this course, you will explore IT management frameworks, regulations, and standards, beginning with an overview of IT and data governance, and standards, policies, and procedures. Then you will learn about Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards. Next, you will discover risk management and risk treatment. Finally, you will dig into IT maturity models, the Business Model for Information Security (BMIS), the Information Technology Assurance Framework (ITAF), and IT balanced scorecards. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

CISA 2022: Technology resources, service level management, monitoring, and quality management all play crucial roles in information systems management and represent key areas of focus for information system (IS) auditing. In this course, you will explore IT resources and monitoring, beginning with a review of common technology components, IT resource management, service-level management, and service-level agreements. Then you will learn about performance baselines, Windows and Linux performance monitoring, and cloud-based performance monitoring and alerts. Finally, you will discover key aspects of quality management, IT quality management frameworks, and quality management best practices. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Project governance, management, system development, and testing play key roles in information systems. In this course, you will begin by exploring project governance and management, project governance best practices, business cases, and feasibility studies. Then, you will dig into system development methodologies and control identification and design. Finally, you will learn about testing methodologies, beginning with an overview of software testing, unit testing, regression testing, acceptance testing, integration testing, performance testing, and fuzzing. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Information is a primary asset of most organizations today. It has a real value and, if compromised, could have real implications for the enterprise. In this course, you will explore considerations for protecting information assets, beginning with cryptography, asymmetric and symmetric encryption, Windows Encrypting File System, and Windows BitLocker. Then, you will learn about file integrity, the public key infrastructure (PKI) hierarchy, the PKI certificate life cycle, and private certificate authorities (CAs). Finally, you will discover certificate templates, manual certificate issuance, securing network traffic, disabling SSLv3, enabling an HTTPS website, and client Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Virtualization is such an important technology today that it is rather surprising that a little more than a decade ago, it was not given much consideration as a practical way of providing cloud-based services. Today, it is difficult to imagine life without virtualization. In this course, you will explore virtualization and cloud computing, beginning with an overview of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, and virtual network switches. Then you will dig into creating a virtual machine and hardening a virtualized environment. Next, you will investigate cloud computing, common cloud service offerings, and cloud security. Finally, you will learn about Windows cloud-based virtual machines, Linux cloud-based virtual machines, and cloud endpoint security. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).