Fundamentals of IT Auditing - Online Classroom

This training course will provide attendees with an introduction to IT auditing, emphasising the concepts through exercises and case studies. Internal audit professionals will develop knowledge of basic IT audit concepts that can be used to facilitate integrated audit efforts within their organisation.

Topics Covered:

• Overview of IT Auditing, Concepts and Controls: Why IT Auditing and What Is It?
• General Control: Logical Security
• General Control: Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Backup Processing
• Application Controls
• General Control: Change and Patch Management
• Cloud Computing and Service Organisation Control (SOC) Reports
• General Control: System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• End User Computing

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, participants will understand how to:

• Perform an audit of IT applications supporting key business processes
• Coordinate the assessment of IT risk with the evaluation of IT general controls
• Perform a risk assessment and evaluation of controls over end user computer applications