What is an IT audit?

An IT audit can help you to understand the risks that your current IT infrastructure imposes and how to resolve them to prevent future issues. An IT audit will cover all aspects of your policies, operations and IT infrastructure to ensure your business is sufficient enough to comply with industry best practices.

As a business owner, it’s easy to forget about technology audits when you’re preoccupied with the day-to-day challenges of running a business. Even if your IT systems appear to be running smoothly, 31% of companies have had their operational technology infrastructure compromised (Cisco, 2018). Failing to have an evaluation of risk management, control, and governance processes can put your data, financial statements and hardware and software at risk of cyber security breaches.

Here are the reasons why it’s critical to stay on top of your IT systems and processes in order to protect business operations:

• Your IT processes and data integrity may be compromised
• Your employees need an up-to-date method to follow to tackle data security threats
• Recent observations can renew any outdated parts of your IT infrastructure
• IT operation controls (ITIL) can be reorganised to ensure efficiency
• Audits can identify and prevent any future security threats

What parts of the IT environment are assessed?

The audit process is an in-depth and bespoke check on your IT environment to draw accurate and reliable conclusions about which parts of your IT environment need to be renewed or changed. In general, we will check if any of your software and hardware needs updating, how secure your internal and external access security is and the current status of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

The IT audit ensures your business is up-to-date with specific laws, policies and operations no matter the industry or sector you work within. If you have new IT systems under development within your business, it’s extremely important to future-proof any new IT systems with an IT audit.

Our auditors will ensure that your IT security meets ISO/IEC 27001 guidelines to ensure you’re fully protected from cyber security threats. If you decide that you would like to have your cyber security expertly and proactively managed, our cyber security consultants can offer you over 20 years of cyber security experience.

Why choose Intrasource as your IT auditor?

At Intrasource we’re dedicated to providing high-quality and competitively priced audit work to ensure your business is operating effectively.

We can offer you one-off or ongoing IT support services in Hull with our rolling monthly support contracts. 

If you’re unsure of what type of IT audit you need, don’t hesitate to contact a member of the team to receive professional and friendly advice.