This section discusses how IT auditors offer specific services, auditing standards, and how to help a business safeguard and regulate its information systems. Developing and executing a risk-based IT audit strategy, planning and performing the actual audit, and reporting the audit results are all tasks.

Candidates applying for auditor positions should be familiar with the ISACA IT Audit and Assurance Standards, Guidelines and Tools Techniques, Code of Professional Ethics, and other standards.

This domain describes how IT auditors give assurance that an organization’s structure and procedures are in place. This might entail assessing the efficacy of the IT governance system or the organizational structure, for example. It may also include assessing HR management, policies, and standards to evaluate how they connect with the company’s overall strategy and objectives.

This area describes how IT auditors give assurance that the organization’s methods for IS acquisition, development, testing, and deployment align with the organization’s aims and objectives.

Some activities may involve assessing possible investments, development, maintenance, and eventual retirement, as well as assessing project management methods inside the firm.

In this area, you will examine how the auditor ensures that the procedures for IS operations, maintenance, and support align with the organization’s aims and objectives. This might involve conducting periodic evaluations of the IS, assessing specific service level management procedures, and maintaining processing information systems.

Finally, the last domain is concerned with the security of the company’s information assets. It ensures that the organization’s security policies, standards, processes, and controls ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets.