Risk Management & Auditing | VMware vSphere, Private Clouds & External Cloud Based Services

    

Summary:
Virtualization and Cloud Computing are ranked the CIO's top 2 technology priorities, according to Gartner's survey amongst 2.000 CIO's. While delivering on agility requested by business, they recognize the inherent risk and compliance concerns that are associated with emerging technologies and regulatory requirements. This training examines what exactly those risks are; evaluates mitigating controls and how to properly create and execute a risk- directed IT- Audit project for Virtual Environments and Cloud Based Services.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for IT Auditors, IT-Risk-/Security-/Security Governance-/Compliance experts, and IT Architects.

Topics:

• Virtualization de- mystified
• Information Systems Risks
• Risk Assessment & Risk Mitigation
• Auditing VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x & Private Clouds
• Planning & Scoping External/Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Audit Assignments
• Cloud Governance Risks, Critical Compliance Requirements & Controls
• Cloud Governance Auditing for Cloud Governance-specific Controls
• Cloud Operations Risk, Critical Compliance Requirements & Controls
• Cloud Operations Auditing for Cloud Operations

Prerequisites:
This course is aimed at senior Audit, Risk and Technology professionals. Attendees that lack VMware- Cloud- skills must have a solid background in IT- Audit, IT- Security, IT- Risk or IT- Compliance. Technology professionals must have experience in / operate at the Architect level. This training is not aimed at system administrators and does not cover penetration testing.

Last Update: May 23, 2012