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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.

What Will You Learn?

  • 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.

Assessment

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