Information Security Compliance Auditing

Catalog description

This course focuses on information security and privacy compliance auditing from technical, legal, and business perspectives. The main objective of information security compliance auditing is to ensure business systems, electronic management of data, and critical electronic processes used to achieve organizational goals are adequately controlled, monitored, and accessed in such way to be compliant with government legislation (e.g. HIPM, COPPA, SOX, EU- GDPR, etc.), and industry standards (e.g. JSO, PCI-DSS, etc.). Students are introduced to principle security-related laws, regulations, standards, policies, and guidance. Students learn how to plan audit services in accordance with information security audit standards, guidelines, and best practices as well as how to assess whether an organization has the structure, policies, accountability, mechanisms, and monitoring practices in place to achieve the requirements of corporate governance of IT, and ensuring that the safety and effectiveness of computer systems and their related security components. Prerequisite(s): C INF/C YBR 306.