Free CISA — Certified Information Systems Auditor Roadmap
The audit and assurance certification. The standard credential for IT audit, and increasingly asked for in compliance-heavy sectors. The main course is short on Domains 3–5; the continuity course in Step 4 and the control labs in Step 3 fill part of the gap.
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Step 1 — Learn the CISA domains
Audit process, governance, acquisition, operations and asset protection: the five domains, by the current outline's names.
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- Course · ISACA - Certified Information Systems Auditor - CISA · 🔒 Membership
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Step 2 — Governance, risk and the three lines of defence
How governance, risk and controls fit together, and where IT audit sits as the third line of defence.
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- Course · Mastering Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): A Handbook · 🔒 Membership
Step 3 — Controls in practice
See the controls you will audit, working on real systems.
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- Lab 1 of 24 · Auditing Service Accounts and Setting Up Automated Log Collection · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 2 of 24 · CIRP Creation and Disaster · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 3 of 24 · Comparing Controls · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 4 of 24 · Creation of Standard Operating Procedures for Recovery · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 5 of 24 · Identifying Key Assets · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 6 of 24 · Monitoring and Verifying Management Systems · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 7 of 24 · Sensitive Information Identification · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 8 of 24 · BCP DRP and Test Planning · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 9 of 24 · BitLocker Setup · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 10 of 24 · Block Incoming Traffic on Known Port · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 11 of 24 · Creating a List of Installed Programs, Services and User Accounts from a WIN2K12 Server · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 12 of 24 · Creation of BCP and DRP · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 13 of 24 · Data Backup to Prep for Recovery · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 14 of 24 · Event Log · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 15 of 24 · Host Data Integrity Baselining · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 16 of 24 · Installing Patches and Testing Software · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 17 of 24 · MITRE - Attack · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 18 of 24 · MITRE - Defend · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 19 of 24 · Network Discovery · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 20 of 24 · Network Segmentation (FW/DMZ/WAN/LAN) · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 21 of 24 · Network Topology Generation · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 22 of 24 · Open Source Collection · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 23 of 24 · Windows Event Log Manipulation via Windows Event Viewer · 🔒 Membership
- Lab 24 of 24 · Wireshark · 🔒 Membership
Step 4 — Business resilience
Business continuity and disaster recovery planning — the resilience half of Domain 4 (26%).
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- Course · Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning · 🔒 Membership
Step 5 — Land the audit job
Prepare for an IT auditor interview.
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- Course · IT Auditor Interview · 🔒 Membership
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