ISO/IEC 27017:2026 Cloud Security Internal Auditor

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Develop cloud-security internal audit skills through 12 modules and 36 text lessons with exercises and model feedback. Evaluate shared responsibilities, service boundaries, information lifecycle, privileged access, tenant separation, configuration, monitoring, suppliers, incidents and recovery. Practise audit planning, sampling, digital evidence, findings and follow-up. ISO/IEC 27017 provides control guidance; findings use adopted organizational criteria. Includes a 40-question exam and marked practical assignment. Total workload: 14 hours excluding breaks.

LO01: Explain cloud models, the role of ISO/IEC 27017 and a defensible hierarchy of audit criteria.
LO02: Map cloud boundaries, risks and customer/provider responsibilities to verifiable controls.
LO03: Evaluate cloud asset inventories, data protection, retention and verified service exit.
LO04: Audit identity, tenant separation and configuration controls using authorized evidence.
LO05: Evaluate privileged operations, useful monitoring and connected network safeguards.
LO06: Assess provider assurance, incident coordination and recovery dependencies.
LO07: Evaluate meaningful indicators, governance decisions and corrective-action effectiveness.
LO08: Apply audit principles, competence and risk-based programme management.
LO09: Prepare objectives, criteria, a feasible plan and risk-informed samples.
LO10: Conduct interviews and assess cloud evidence while protecting confidentiality.
LO11: Write supported findings, communicate limitations and verify corrective actions.
LO12: Integrate cloud-control audit skills and recognize the limits of course completion.

Course Content

Cloud audit foundations and edition control
Explain cloud models, the role of ISO/IEC 27017 and a defensible hierarchy of audit criteria.

Cloud services and the audit boundary
What ISO/IEC 27017 contributes
Edition control and selecting audit criteria

Scope, risk and shared responsibilities
Map cloud boundaries, risks and customer/provider responsibilities to verifiable controls.

Information lifecycle and service exit
Evaluate cloud asset inventories, data protection, retention and verified service exit.

Identity, isolation and secure configuration
Audit identity, tenant separation and configuration controls using authorized evidence.

Administration, monitoring and networks
Evaluate privileged operations, useful monitoring and connected network safeguards.

Suppliers, incidents and resilience
Assess provider assurance, incident coordination and recovery dependencies.

Control evaluation and improvement
Evaluate meaningful indicators, governance decisions and corrective-action effectiveness.

Auditor competence and audit programme
Apply audit principles, competence and risk-based programme management.

Audit preparation and sampling
Prepare objectives, criteria, a feasible plan and risk-informed samples.

Conducting a cloud internal audit
Conduct interviews and assess cloud evidence while protecting confidentiality.

Findings, reporting and follow-up
Write supported findings, communicate limitations and verify corrective actions.

Integrated practice and assessment preparation
Integrate cloud-control audit skills and recognize the limits of course completion.

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Course Content

Cloud audit foundations and edition control Explain cloud models, the role of ISO/IEC 27017 and a defensible hierarchy of audit criteria.

Cloud services and the audit boundary

What ISO/IEC 27017 contributes

Edition control and selecting audit criteria

Scope, risk and shared responsibilities Map cloud boundaries, risks and customer/provider responsibilities to verifiable controls.

Scoping accounts, tenants and dependencies

Risk assessment and control selection

Shared responsibility in operation

Information lifecycle and service exit Evaluate cloud asset inventories, data protection, retention and verified service exit.

Cloud assets and information inventories

Protection, location and lifecycle decisions

Service exit and verified asset removal

Identity, isolation and secure configuration Audit identity, tenant separation and configuration controls using authorized evidence.

Identity and privileged access

Tenant separation and virtualization

Secure configuration and workload hardening

Administration, monitoring and networks Evaluate privileged operations, useful monitoring and connected network safeguards.

Secure administrative operations

Logs, monitoring and response ownership

Network safeguards across cloud boundaries

Suppliers, incidents and resilience Assess provider assurance, incident coordination and recovery dependencies.

Provider selection and assurance evidence

Incident coordination and evidence handling

Backup, recovery and continuity dependencies

Control evaluation and improvement Evaluate meaningful indicators, governance decisions and corrective-action effectiveness.

Measuring control performance honestly

Management evaluation and changing cloud services

Correction, cause and effectiveness

Auditor competence and audit programme Apply audit principles, competence and risk-based programme management.

Audit principles and independence

Auditor competence and specialist support

Audit programme and changing priorities

Audit preparation and sampling Prepare objectives, criteria, a feasible plan and risk-informed samples.

Objectives, scope, criteria and a feasible plan

Building process-based audit trails

Sampling and the limits of inference

Conducting a cloud internal audit Conduct interviews and assess cloud evidence while protecting confidentiality.

Opening the audit and protecting evidence

Interviewing and triangulating evidence

Reliability of digital evidence

Findings, reporting and follow-up Write supported findings, communicate limitations and verify corrective actions.

Writing defensible findings

Reporting and the closing discussion

Reviewing responses and verifying effectiveness

Integrated practice and assessment preparation Integrate cloud-control audit skills and recognize the limits of course completion.

Integrated cloud audit: plan and evidence

Integrated cloud audit: findings and actions

Exam preparation and workplace development