7DEC
7 - 11 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
Professional training course · AGRC-055
Auditing Cloud Services and Outsourced Operations
Organisations increasingly rely on cloud platforms, software services and outsourced providers for critical processes and data. While these arrangements bring flexibility…
- 5 daysClassroom
- 49Upcoming dates
- 12Cities
- £2,250Fees from
Course overview
Introduction
Organisations increasingly rely on cloud platforms, software services and outsourced providers for critical processes and data. While these arrangements bring flexibility and efficiency, they also shift risks outside the organisation's direct control, raising questions about security, resilience, data location, regulatory compliance and contractual protection.
This Auditing Cloud Services and Outsourced Operations training course prepares auditors to provide assurance over third-party delivered services. Participants learn about cloud service and deployment models, the shared responsibility model, governance of outsourcing, contract and service level review, reliance on independent assurance reports and testing of the controls retained by the organisation.
The course combines technical explanation in clear language with practical audit programmes and exercises that can be applied immediately.
Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain cloud service and deployment models and their risks
- Apply the shared responsibility model to audit scoping
- Evaluate governance and risk assessment of outsourcing decisions
- Review contracts and service levels for key protections
- Assess security, identity and data protection in cloud environments
- Use independent assurance reports appropriately
- Audit resilience, exit planning and concentration risk
- Report findings on cloud and outsourced services
Target Audience
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, including:
- Internal auditors and IT auditors
- Information security professionals
- Vendor and outsourcing managers
- Risk and compliance professionals
- IT managers responsible for cloud services
- External auditors reviewing service organisations
Training Methodology
The course uses sample contracts, assurance reports, cloud configuration evidence and outsourcing case studies. Participants scope a cloud audit, review an assurance report for gaps, assess contract clauses and design tests of retained controls. Discussion covers regulatory expectations in different sectors.
Target Competencies
- Cloud risk understanding
- Outsourcing governance review
- Contract and service level evaluation
- Assurance report reliance
- Cloud security control testing
- Exit and resilience assessment
Course outline
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1Day One: Cloud and Outsourcing Fundamentals
- Infrastructure, platform and software as a service explained
- Public, private and hybrid deployment models
- Business drivers and risks of cloud and outsourcing
- The shared responsibility model and its audit implications
- Regulatory expectations for outsourcing and cloud
- Mapping critical outsourced services and data flows
- Exercise: scoping an audit of a cloud service
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2Day Two: Governance, Contracts and Service Levels
- Outsourcing policies, approvals and risk assessment
- Due diligence on cloud and outsourcing providers
- Contract clauses for audit rights, data and security
- Service level agreements and performance reporting
- Subcontracting and fourth-party risk
- Ongoing oversight and relationship management
- Exercise: reviewing a cloud services contract
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3Day Three: Security and Data Protection in the Cloud
- Identity and access management in cloud environments
- Configuration management and security baselines
- Encryption, key management and data location
- Logging, monitoring and incident response
- Data protection obligations for outsourced processing
- Testing cloud security configurations with evidence
- Exercise: assessing sample cloud configuration evidence
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4Day Four: Using Independent Assurance Reports
- Types of service organisation assurance reports
- Understanding scope, period and exceptions in reports
- Complementary user entity controls and their testing
- Identifying gaps when reports do not cover key risks
- Bridging letters and period gaps
- Other certifications and their limitations
- Exercise: evaluating a service organisation report
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5Day Five: Resilience, Exit and Reporting
- Business continuity and disaster recovery for outsourced services
- Concentration risk and dependence on a few providers
- Exit planning and data portability
- Cost management and financial controls in cloud
- Writing findings for cloud and outsourcing audits
- Building a continuous assurance approach for third parties
- Personal action plan for auditing cloud and outsourcing
Schedule
Dates and fees
49 upcoming dates in 12 cities. Fees are per delegate; bring colleagues and every seat is discounted.
December 2026
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
14DEC
14 - 18 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
21DEC
21 - 25 Dec 2026Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
January 2027
4JAN
4 - 8 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
MadridSpain · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
11JAN
11 - 15 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
18JAN
18 - 22 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
25JAN
25 - 29 Jan 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
February 2027
1FEB
1 - 5 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
8FEB
8 - 12 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
MunichGermany · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
15FEB
15 - 19 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
22FEB
22 - 26 Feb 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
March 2027
1MAR
1 - 5 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
8MAR
8 - 12 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
15MAR
15 - 19 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
ParisFrance · Classroom
£4,500per delegate2+ people: £3,600 each
22MAR
22 - 26 Mar 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
April 2027
5APR
5 - 9 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
12APR
12 - 16 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
19APR
19 - 23 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
26APR
26 - 30 Apr 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
RomeItaly · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
May 2027
3MAY
3 - 7 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
ViennaAustria · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
10MAY
10 - 14 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
17MAY
17 - 21 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
24MAY
24 - 28 May 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
June 2027
7JUN
7 - 11 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
14JUN
14 - 18 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
21JUN
21 - 25 Jun 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
July 2027
5JUL
5 - 9 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
12JUL
12 - 16 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
19JUL
19 - 23 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
Cape TownSouth Africa · Classroom
£2,840per delegate2+ people: £2,272 each
26JUL
26 - 30 Jul 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
August 2027
2AUG
2 - 6 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
9AUG
9 - 13 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
16AUG
16 - 20 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
23AUG
23 - 27 Aug 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
DubaiUnited Arab Emirates · Classroom
£5,250per delegate2+ people: £4,200 each
September 2027
6SEP
6 - 10 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
13SEP
13 - 17 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
20SEP
20 - 24 Sep 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
October 2027
4OCT
4 - 8 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
11OCT
11 - 15 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
IstanbulTurkey · Classroom
£2,850per delegate2+ people: £2,280 each
18OCT
18 - 22 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
25OCT
25 - 29 Oct 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
November 2027
1NOV
1 - 5 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
8NOV
8 - 12 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
15NOV
15 - 19 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
Kuala LumpurMalaysia · Classroom
£2,250per delegate2+ people: £1,800 each
22NOV
22 - 26 Nov 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
December 2027
6DEC
6 - 10 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
LondonUnited Kingdom · Classroom
£4,200per delegate2+ people: £3,360 each
13DEC
13 - 17 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
BarcelonaSpain · Classroom
£3,850per delegate2+ people: £3,080 each
20DEC
20 - 24 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
FrankfurtGermany · Classroom
£3,250per delegate2+ people: £2,600 each
27DEC
27 - 31 Dec 2027Mon to Fri · 5 days
MadridSpain · Classroom
£4,250per delegate2+ people: £3,400 each
No dates in this city right now. Request a quotation and we will suggest the nearest date.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How long is the Auditing Cloud Services and Outsourced Operations course?
The course runs over 5 days of classroom training, usually Monday to Friday.
When is the next Auditing Cloud Services and Outsourced Operations course?
The next public date is 7 - 11 Dec 2026 in London. There are 49 upcoming dates in total.
Where is this course held?
Upcoming sessions run in London, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Cape Town, Dubai, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur.
How much does the course cost?
Fees start from £2,250 per delegate, depending on the city. Fees include tuition and course materials.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Delegates who complete the course receive a London Leadership Management Innovation certificate of completion.
Can this course be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. LLMI can tailor and deliver this course privately for your organisation at your premises or in one of our training cities.
Course information last updated 14 November 2026.
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