ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Lead Auditor Training

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40-hour ISMS lead auditor course: 40 text lessons, seven practical written-response quizzes, five knowledge checks, a 40-question final knowledge exam and four typed assignments including observed audit practice and a controlled final written assessment. Risk assessment/treatment, SoA, all 93 Annex A reference-control audit prompts, cloud, access, development, incidents and recovery. Includes the applicable climate amendment. AED 999. Original fictional evidence is embedded. No learner file upload required. W3 completion only; no external recognition claimed.

LO01: Explain information security, ISMS requirements and audit principles
LO02: Evaluate context, scope, leadership, objectives, support and planned changes
LO03: Audit risk assessment/treatment, SoA decisions and selected controls across all four themes
LO04: Calculate and evaluate access, incident, recovery and performance evidence
LO05: Design a risk-informed audit programme and feasible competent-team plan
LO06: Collect and corroborate evidence through neutral interviews and secure sampling
LO07: Lead audits and communicate professionally within authorization and confidentiality limits
LO08: Write defensible findings/reports and evaluate corrective action and closure

Course Content

ISMS foundations and auditor principles
Information, CIA, requirements versus guidance, connected audit trails and professional competence.

ISMS purpose, information and audit outcomes
Requirements, controls and supporting guidance
Process auditing, risk and connected evidence
Auditor principles, competence and authority
Practical 01: Information, criteria and audit boundaries

Context, leadership, support and planning
Scope/interfaces, climate relevance, accountabilities, objectives, competence and planned changes.

Risk assessment, treatment and Statement of Applicability
Consistent scenarios/scoring, control necessity, Annex A comparison, residual evidence and owner approval.

Organizational, people and physical controls
Audit prompts for A.5.1–A.5.37, A.6.1–A.6.8 and A.7.1–A.7.14, with supplier and lifecycle cases.

Technology controls and integrated evaluation
Audit prompts for A.8.1–A.8.34 and connected evidence for access, operations, development and recovery.

Audit programme and planning
Priorities, readiness, certification-stage context, team schedules and secure sampling.

Evidence collection and technical judgement
Opening, interviews, control evidence, source limits and incident/recovery calculations.

Leading and observing an ISMS audit
Team coordination, pressure, protected evidence, individual observation and closing.

Performance, findings and reporting
Reliable measures, internal audit/review, criterion-linked findings and bounded conclusions.

Corrective action and final assessment
Cause/extent, effectiveness, closure, integrated examinations and continuing competence.

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Course Content

ISMS foundations and auditor principles Information, CIA, requirements versus guidance, connected audit trails and professional competence.

ISMS purpose, information and audit outcomes

Requirements, controls and supporting guidance

Process auditing, risk and connected evidence

Auditor principles, competence and authority

Practical 01: Information, criteria and audit boundaries

Context, leadership, support and planning Scope/interfaces, climate relevance, accountabilities, objectives, competence and planned changes.

Context, climate and interested parties

Scope, interfaces and outsourced dependencies

Leadership, policy and accountability

Objectives, support and planned changes

Practical 02: Context, leadership, objectives and change

Knowledge Check 1

Risk assessment, treatment and Statement of Applicability Consistent scenarios/scoring, control necessity, Annex A comparison, residual evidence and owner approval.

Risk identification and repeatable assessment

Risk analysis, evaluation and priorities

Treatment, control selection and the SoA

Residual risk, approval and operational reassessment

Practical 03: Risk scoring, treatment and SoA decisions

Organizational, people and physical controls Audit prompts for A.5.1–A.5.37, A.6.1–A.6.8 and A.7.1–A.7.14, with supplier and lifecycle cases.

Organizational controls: governance and information lifecycle

Organizational controls: suppliers, incidents and assurance

People controls and security culture

Physical controls and protected work environments

Practical 04: Organizational, people and physical control trails

Knowledge Check 2

Technology controls and integrated evaluation Audit prompts for A.8.1–A.8.34 and connected evidence for access, operations, development and recovery.

Technology controls: identities, endpoints and resilience

Technology controls: logs, networks and cryptography

Technology controls: secure development and audit safeguards

Evaluate selected controls as an integrated system

Practical 05: Technology, release assurance and recovery

Audit programme and planning Priorities, readiness, certification-stage context, team schedules and secure sampling.

Audit programmes and risk-based priorities

Audit initiation, readiness and certification stages

Build a feasible two-auditor plan

Sampling and secure remote audit methods

Prepare an ISMS audit programme and two-day plan

Knowledge Check 3

Evidence collection and technical judgement Opening, interviews, control evidence, source limits and incident/recovery calculations.

Opening meetings and protected evidence access

Interviewing and corroborating accounts

Assess control design, operation and effectiveness

Incident, recovery and metric calculations

Practical 07: Interviews, corroboration and evidence limits

Leading and observing an ISMS audit Team coordination, pressure, protected evidence, individual observation and closing.

Lead the team and integrate audit trails

Manage pressure, disagreement and interruptions

Observed individual ISMS audit practice

Closing meetings and follow-up arrangements

Lead an observed ISMS audit simulation

Knowledge Check 4

Performance, findings and reporting Reliable measures, internal audit/review, criterion-linked findings and bounded conclusions.

Evaluate monitoring and ISMS performance

Internal audit, management review and organizational learning

Write defensible findings and classify fairly

Report conclusions, positives and limitations

Write the ISMS audit report and follow-up plan

Corrective action and final assessment Cause/extent, effectiveness, closure, integrated examinations and continuing competence.

Correction, causes and effective corrective action

Verify closure and continual improvement

Integrate requirements, controls and final assessment

Practical 10: Corrective action, closure and improvement

Knowledge Check 5

Final ISMS knowledge examination

Controlled final written ISMS assessment

Portfolio review and continuing competence

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