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Auditing Northwind Freight Systems against its own CIS baseline around the eight-stage audit loop: scope, plan, evidence, testing on a sample of 45 of 340 hosts, gap rating of 38 gaps with 15 repeats, findings, remediation and continuous assurance, answering the board's question with 92 percent conformance; Finding 7, whose ticket said done but whose re-test still failed on three of five hosts, closed only once the re-test passed; and conformance rising quarter by quarter from 71 to 92 percent while re-test pass rates rose from 60 to 94 percent.
CY-MID-001Mid Level · Cybersecurity Audit

Security Baseline Audit — The Audit Loop

A hands-on mid-level course that runs a security baseline audit end to end, proving whether an organization is actually at the security baseline it chose. Work the audit loop - eight stages an audit cycles through: Scope & Baseline Selection, Audit Plan & Test Criteria, Evidence Collection, Technical Testing & Sampling, Gap Analysis & Risk Rating, Findings & Reporting, Remediation Tracking & Re-test, and Continuous Baseline Assurance - with real benchmark scans, manual re-performance, sampling, rated findings, and evidence-based closure. Four hands-on activities in every lesson.

15 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

  • Scope a baseline audit and select and tailor a defensible, named baseline.
  • Build a real audit test plan with control-to-test mapping, procedures, and sampling.
  • Collect and index defensible, chain-of-custody evidence and run technical tests with sampling and manual re-performance.
  • Rate and report gaps as actionable findings, and track remediation to evidence-verified closure and continuous assurance.

Price:৳8,000
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