CISA Domain 5: Identity & Access Management

This episode is part of the CISA Audit Judgment Series — a structured learning path designed to teach CISA exam reasoning through real audit scenarios. We are currently covering Domain 4 and Domain 5, the heaviest-weighted areas of the exam.

Identity & Access Management questions are some of the trickiest in CISA Domain 5 because the exam focuses on governance, not technology.

In this episode, we break down a real scenario where a terminated employee’s badge still worked weeks after separation — and why this failure reveals a deeper breakdown in identity lifecycle controls.

You’ll learn:

✔ Why IAM is a top CISA exam topic

✔ Why governance failures matter more than technical ones

✔ How junior auditors interpret IAM gaps vs. how audit leaders evaluate them

✔ Evidence auditors must review in real-world IAM audits

✔ How to think in terms of lifecycle, de-provisioning, monitoring, and reconciliation

✔ How to identify and escalate systemic IAM weaknesses

✔ The risk implications when termination processes fail

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