The Complete IT Auditing and Governance Course

Explore IT governance and risk management foundations to align technology with business goals and deliver value. Learn how auditors assess risks, test controls, and guide improvements.

Explore how it general controls and it application controls secure operations and ensure data accuracy, completeness, and reliability, supporting compliance through access, change, patching, backup, and input controls.

Explore control design and control operation in IT auditing, linking design to risk, completeness, appropriateness, clarity, and sustainability, with operation emphasizing consistency, competence, evidence, timeliness, and resilience.

Understand preventive, detective, and corrective controls and how they stop, detect, and fix issues within IT governance, using examples such as access controls, audits, reconciliations, and incident response.

Examine the coso framework as a standard for internal control and enterprise risk management, detailing its five components—control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communications, monitoring—and IT governance applications.

Explore the COBIT framework, a global standard for IT governance and management. See how COBIT links value, risk, and enterprise resources through principles, framework, and auditor benefits.

Explore ISO 27001's risk-based ISMS with its control catalog, then apply the NIST CSF to audit, assess maturity, and perform gap analysis across identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

Explore soc audits, including soc 1, 2, and 3, their trust service criteria, and how they provide independent assurance on service provider controls, scope, and regulatory compliance.

Audit planning serves as the blueprint for IT audits, clarifying purpose, stakeholders, scope, boundaries, risk assessment, and aligning methodology with standards and regulations.

Explore audit fieldwork from planning to evidence collection, using statistical, attribute, variable, and stratified sampling to test controls, verify design and operation, validate compliance, and support conclusions.

Communicate audit results clearly by linking findings to risk and providing actionable recommendations. Apply the five-part report model—condition, criteria, cost, effect, recommendations—and understand draft, final, executive summary, and detailed appendices.

enforce access controls across apps, APIs, data layers, clouds, and networks; implement multifactor authentication and encryption (in transit, at rest, in use) to protect identities and data.

Develop visibility, accountability, and governance across hardware, software, and data assets through comprehensive asset management controls. Audit asset registers, license compliance, patching, and data access controls.

Perform a configuration and patch management audit to prevent breaches by enforcing baselines, change management, and automated monitoring. Verify patches through testing, deployment, and post-deployment checks to ensure compliance.

Learn how change management controls authorize, test, document, and monitor IT changes. Trace the lifecycle from request to post-implementation review, including approvals, testing, and rollback.

Identify and assess risks, define BIA with RTO and RPO, and establish leadership-driven governance, prevention, preparedness, and recovery plans to sustain operations and protect reputation.

Explore how disaster recovery planning restores IT services after disruptions using risk assessment, RTO and RPO targets, backups, encryption, and tested recovery strategies for hot, warm, and cold sites.

Explore incident response and resilience audits guided by NIST and ISO standards, covering incident reports life cycle from preparation to lessons learned and resilience across technical, organizational, and operational domains.