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• CIS 558 Week 1 Discussion COBIT Planning
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• COBIT Planning  Please respond to the
  following
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• Describe how organizations establish the five (5)
  COBIT IT governance focus areas strategic
  alignment, value delivery, risk management,
  resource management, and performance management
• Suppose senior management has tasked you with the
  planning of the COBIT compliance project. In
  terms of the COBIT framework, predict

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• CIS 558 Week 1-11 All DQs
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• CIS 558 Week 1 Discussion COBIT Planning
• CIS 558 Week 2 Discussion Question Developing an
  ERM plan
• CIS 558 Week 3 Discussion Mitigating Wireless
  Risk
• CIS 558 Week 4 Discussion Obstacles to CMMI
  Development
• CIS 558 Week 5 Discussion Automated Auditing
• CIS 558 Week 6 Discussion Audit Project Control  

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• CIS 558 Week 2 Discussion Question Developing an
  ERM plan
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• Developing an ERM plan  Please respond to the
  following
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• From a management perspective, decide which key
  policies and procedures one should consider as
  the starting point when developing an ERM plan
  for an organization. Defend your position.

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• CIS 558 Week 3 Assignment 1 ERM Roadmap (2
  Papers)
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• This Tutorial contains 2 Papers
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• CIS 558 Week 3 Assignment 1 ERM Roadmap
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• Week 3 Assignment 1
• Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable
  Rubric Assignment" in the Student
  Center.Instructors, training on how to grade is
  within the Instructor Center.Assignment 1 ERM
  Roadmap

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• CIS 558 Week 3 Discussion Mitigating Wireless
  Risk
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• Mitigating Wireless Risk  Please respond to the
  following
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• Suggest two (2) of the risks and two (2) of the
  benefits associated with the implementation of
  wireless networks.
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• For each of the risks, provide key suggestions
  for mitigating or eliminating those risks from an
  auditors perspective. Suggest key methods for
  measuring the effectiveness of your solutions.

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• CIS 558 Week 4 Case Study 1 Mitigating Cloud
  Computing Risks (2 Papers)
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• Week 4 Case Study 1
• Students, please view the "Submit a Clickable
  Rubric Assignment" in the Student
  Center.Instructors, training on how to grade is
  within the Instructor Center.Case Study 1
  Mitigating Cloud Computing RisksDue Week 4 and
  worth 125 points

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• CIS 558 Week 4 Discussion Obstacles to CMMI
  Development
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• Obstacles to CMMI Development  Please respond
  to the following
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• Elaborate on three (3) of the obstacles that must
  be overcome as a business moves up the CMMI
  model. Suggest key methods for overcoming the
  obstacles you have identified.
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• Describe the measurable benefits of progressing
  up the CMMI model. From an auditing perspective,
  determine the manner in which these benefits
  might be observed.

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• CIS 558 Week 5 Discussion Automated Auditing
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• Automated Auditing  Please respond to the
  following
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• CAATTs can be helpful when dealing with immense
  amounts of data. However, developing a CAATT
  system can be time consuming. Argue for or
  against the use of CAATT systems.
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• Identify the key elements of building an
  effective CAATT system. Elaborate on two (2)
  challenges faced when designing an effective
  CAATT system, and suggest possible solutions to
  these problems.

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• CIS 558 Week 6 Assignment 2 Software Engineering,
  CMMI, and ITIL (2 Papers)
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• Realizing that an organizations CMMI level
  impacts an organization s success on requests
  for proposals (RFPs), your CIO wants to get the
  software development processes to CMMI level 3.
  Your organization has started developing software
  applications and database systems for their
  customers. The CIO wants to ensure that the
  software development and database development
  processes are being properly managed and audited,
  and he wants to ensure that the organization
  begins taking the necessary steps to progress to
  CMMI level 3. In preparation for your response,
  review the CMMI information available at the
  Carnegie Mellon Website. 

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• CIS 558 Week 6 Discussion Audit Project Control
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• Audit Project Control  Please respond to the
  following
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• Compare and contrast an IT Audit project with
  other projects which might be found in an IT
  department. Describe two (2) challenges that are
  unique to IT Audit projects. Suggest an approach
  to mitigate each challenge you selected.
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• Based on the challenges identified, describe the
  controls that the project manager would need to
  implement in order to overcome potential project
  control issues.
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• CIS 558 Week 7 Case Study 2 HIPAA and IT Audits
  (2 Papers)
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• Case Study 2 HIPAA and IT AuditsDue Week 7 and
  worth 75 pointsImagine you are a CIO at a
  medium-sized hospital, and you have been asked by
  the CEO to provide a case analysis report that
  will be provided to the senior leadership in the
  organization. They are concerned about the HIPAA
  Security and Privacy Rules and its impact on the
  organization. Unfamiliar with the details of
  HIPAA, you begin looking at the information
  provided by the Department of Health and Human
  Services. Specifically, you are asked to provide
  an analysis on the summary of the cases. 

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• CIS 558 Week 7 Discussion Identity and Access
  Management
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• Identity and Access Management  Please respond
  to the following
• Analyze the identity and access management
  approach that organizations need to implement to
  effectively control access to their systems.
  Explain how the identity and access management
  approach would be influenced by the type of
  organization and its size.

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• CIS 558 Week 8 Discussion Effective Disaster
  Recovery Plans
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• Effective Disaster Recovery Plans  Please
  respond to the following
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• Disaster recovery planning is essential for a
  business to survive when unexpected events impact
  daily operations. Determine the areas of disaster
  recovery planning and preparedness you believe
  organizations are often lacking. Provide a
  rationale for your response.
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• Analyze and describe the key controls, especially
  non-technical controls, which would ensure a
  business is prepared for a disaster. Elaborate on
  the impact that a disaster might have on the
  auditing process.

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• CIS 558 Week 9 Discussion Change and Patch
  management
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• CIS 558 Week 9 Discussion Change and Patch
  management 
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• Analyze it change management and patch management
  processes needed within organization identify 3
  challenges organizations face when implementing
  change and patch management processes for the
  first time, make suggestions to address these
  challenges
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• CIS 558 Week 10 Discussion Quality Assurance and
  Auditing Standards
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• Quality Assurance and Auditing Standards
   Please respond to the following
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• Describe the actions an organization needs to
  execute in order to improve their quality
  assurance and auditing processes within the
  organization.
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• Create a list of at least five (5) auditing best
  practices for organizations to follow when
  implementing their quality assurance auditing
  programs.
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• Select the auditing best practices you feel are
  most difficult to implement and offer means of
  addressing them.

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• CIS 558 Week 10 Term Paper Managing an IT
  Infrastructure Audit (2 Papers)
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• Term Paper Managing an IT Infrastructure Audit
• This assignment consists of four (4) sections an
  internal IT audit policy, a management plan, a
  project plan, and a disaster recovery plan. You
  must submit all four (4) sections as separate
  files for the completion of this
  assignment. Label each file name according to the
  section of the assignment it is written for.
  Additionally, you may create and /or assume all
  necessary assumptions needed for the completion
  of this assignment.

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• CIS 558 Week 11 Discussion Course Conclusion and
  Summary
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• Course Conclusion and Summary  Please respond to
  the following
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• You have just completed 10 weeks of an
  information technology audit and control course.
  Imagine you have been asked to create a one (1)
  day training course highlighting the important
  elements of what you have just learned in the
  past ten weeks.
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• Create a hierarchy of five (no more or no less)
  of the most important topics that you feel need
  to be addressed in this one (1) day course that
  best fits the course title of Information
  Technology Audit and Control The Essentials
  Presented in One Day. Give a detailed rationale
  for each of the five (5) topics.

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