Information Systems Auditing
CSE-X413.67
Obtain for you Information Systems Auditor Certification
Validate your skills and elevate your career by demonstrating your ability to apply risk-based techniques to audit, regulate, monitor, and assess an organization's information technology and business systems. Gain the confidence and trust from internal stakeholders, regulators, external auditors, and customers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies Information Systems Auditors as on one of the most sought-after and highest-paying IT certifications. This certification is a must-have for entry-level to mid-level IT professionals seeking to advance their careers.
This course will prepare students for their Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Certification from ISACA.
Course Highlights:
- Risk management practices
- IT portfolio and resource management
- Strategies for business-it alignment
- Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies
- IT policies, standards, processes, and procedures within the organization
- The value of the it controls framework
- The management and monitoring of IT personnel, the IT organizational structure and controls
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Implement an audit strategy for information systems (IS) that is based on risk management
- Plan audits that can be used to determine whether or not IT assets are protected, managed and valuable
- Execute the audits in compliance with the organization's set standards and objectives
- Share audit results and providing recommendations to management based on the results
- Perform reexaminations of the audits to ensure the recommended actions have been performed by management
Lab Fee: Students must purchase a uCertify license in order to access uCertify materials for this course. Student's uCertify licenses are valid for 4 months.
MyCAA Scholarship Qualification
Eligible students may qualify to use My Career Advancement Account Scholarship (MyCAA) for this course. MyCAA is a workforce development program that provides financial assistance to eligible military spouses.
Click here to apply to the MyCAA scholarship.
Course Typically Offered: Online in spring and fall quarters.
Prerequisite: A BS in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge and experience, or the course CSE-41363 Cybersecurity Fundamentals.
Next Step: After completing this course, earning your Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Certification from ISACA. To continue learning, consider taking CSE-41368 Risk and Information Systems Control.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email infotech@ucsd.edu.
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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No Textbook Required
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Instructor:
Tracy Reed, CISSP, CMMC, CCP, CCA, CCSK, RHCE, ATP
Tracy Reed is a cybersecurity consultant, assessor, architect, and educator with more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Linux, infrastructure, and enterprise technology. His work spans security architecture, regulatory compliance, cloud and container security, operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), and artificial intelligence security and governance.
Reed is a CMMC Lead Assessor and CyberAB-designated Lead CCA with extensive experience implementing and assessing cybersecurity programs based on CMMC and NIST SP 800-171. His assessment and compliance experience also includes PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and other security and risk-management frameworks. He is a PCI Professional (PCIP) and has performed PCI security assessments for the US Air Force and helped organizations design and implement compliant environments.
His technical experience includes AWS and cloud security, identity and access management, Kubernetes and container security, network and systems security, and OT/ICS environments. His recent work increasingly focuses on artificial intelligence security, risk, and governance. Reed is an ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System Lead Auditor and works with organizations on AI governance, third-party AI risk, generative AI and large language model security, and integrating AI governance with existing cybersecurity and compliance programs.
Reed is also an FAA Airline Transport Pilot and draws on aviation's mature approaches to risk management, human factors, and operational discipline in his cybersecurity work.
At UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, Reed brings his practical consulting, assessment, and engineering experience into the classroom, connecting technical implementation with cybersecurity risk, governance, and real-world security requirements.