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IT Auditing
The modern business is dynamically and actively developing. The companies’ management identifies new growth points, defines new goals and objectives in the business development and support, and information technologies penetrate the companies’ business processes more and more deeply. New technologies are ready not only to provide support and optimization for the companies’ business processes, but also to bring new ideas to the business, give an additional impetus to development, and create competitive advantages.
An IT strategy is formed and constantly updated with the purpose to create synergy between business and IT.
An effective IT strategy is always based on IT audit. It allows assessing the state of infrastructure and the level of availability of IT services, the company’s business and IT processes and their continuity, the competences of IT employees and the project office as well as the efficiency of all information systems.
IT audit (or IT analysis) is an opportunity to get an unbiased assessment of your company’s IT management system, to understand how IT infrastructure, information systems and IT services should be developed, and also to determine the points and methods of their most effective application.
IT AUDIT: WHAT IT SHOWS AND WHAT DECISIONS IT HELPS TO MAKE
- shows to what extent the information support provided to your company’s key business processes is full and efficient.
- shows the possibility and benefits of applying new technologies and approaches of the modern digital world (such as business digitalization, migration to cloud and hybrid environments, automation of business processes)
- shows how IT assets and IT resources can provide additional quality opportunities for business.
- shows how IT transformation can optimize value chains for the entire business and the IT department in particular.
- assesses the need to implement IT management methodologies, IT services, applications and an integration environment in order to get the most out of them.
- shows how to ensure business continuity, with which solutions you can analyse the functioning of the network, IT infrastructure and business applications, identify problems in any IT application or service, determine the availability and performance of software transactions, predict negative impact on the end user.
- helps decide how to maximize the use of existing IT capabilities of the company, thereby minimizing costs when implementing large-scale changes.
- finds out how much the company invests in the IT department, IT infrastructure, information systems and services, and whether this amount is justified.
- helps reduce the cost of maintenance and ownership of information systems.
- highlights the risks in the field of information security and tells you how to eliminate or minimize them.
- helps assess the conformity of your IT with the global best practices and reference models used by our large customers around the world.
WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING IT AUDIT OPTIONS:
FULL-SERVICE
Auditing of all areas of a company’s activities is included. The average duration of such an audit is 3-4 months.
SELECTIVE
Several key areas are selected, for example, audit of IT security and ITSM processes. The work is carried out from several weeks to 2 months.
EXPRESS
IT audit of a single area, for example, IT audit of staff. Duration of the audit is several weeks.
DEPENDING ON YOUR SELECTED IT AUDIT TYPES, YOU CAN EXPECT THE FOLLOWING RESULTS:
⇒ Detailed recommendations on optimization of your IT infrastructure, IT architecture and IT processes.
⇒ IT audit report with a detailed description of the current state of your IT infrastructure, IT architecture and IT processes, as well as recommendations on their optimization.
⇒ Feasibility study of the implementation and development of IT systems, IT infrastructure upgrade.
⇒ Roadmaps for the development, improvement, and implementation of business applications.
⇒ Terms of reference and/or individual terms of reference for the improvement and integration of information systems, selection of software solutions from a range of vendors.
- IT Infrastructure Audit
- Audit of business processes
- Information security audit
- Audit information systems
- Specialized software usage
- Physical examination
- Individual interviews with IT service employees of the company
IT infrastructure audit is logically divided into 2 parts: server infrastructure audit and client infrastructure audit
When auditing the server IT infrastructure, we use an efficient examination methodology and a set of standard tools. As a result, we can quickly and efficiently examine the IT infrastructure of a company and determine the degree of the customer’s IT infrastructure compliance with business goals, assess current risks of the infrastructure impact on business and efficiency.
Our large team of certified specialists offers our customers the most efficient methods of IT infrastructure transformation.
During the client infrastructure survey, we:
- Analyze and assess IT assets and management processes for operating systems and software on employees’ workstations.
- Compare the purchased and actually used licenses, analyze risks and develop proposals on optimization of software licensing and usage.
- Determine infrastructure readiness for transformation, implementation and migration of Office 365 and EMS cloud services, migration to a new version of the client OS (Windows 7, 8, 10), implementation of approaches and tools for mobile device management, and implementation of the BYOD concept, implementation, and optimization of VDI and terminal environments.
- Analyze the efficiency of end-user devices.
The audit of business processes is a procedure for identifying and isolating problem areas of a company’s operation. The audit includes:
- Audit of business processes for reporting and creating the reporting structure.
- Determination of transparency and efficiency of a company’s processes, performance of processes by key customers and business process re-engineering, if necessary.
- Description of the decision-making model of the company.
- Determination of metrics, key business indicators of the company for data monetization, identification of data sources, rules for data systematization, binding and enrichment.
- Identification of current business and user issues, issue categorization (from major to minor)
The information security audit includes examination of the current information security system of the company to objectively assess the level of its security and develop recommendations on its improvement.
During the examination, our specialists interview key employees of the company, examine processes related to data security, scan information systems for vulnerabilities, determine information system requirements (also related to information security), determine the value of information assets and assess risks.
In all cases, we analyze settings of information systems, DBMS and data security tools for the compliance with data security regulations.
As a result of the Information Security Audit, the company obtains a detailed report containing information about all detected issues and vulnerabilities of information systems, infrastructure and organizational measures, as well as a list of recommendations on the improvement of the company’s data security level, threat model, and other necessary documents.
The audit of information systems includes examination and analysis of the existing information system of the company to assess its efficiency.
During the audit, we analyze the compliance (partial compliance, non-compliance) of existing IT services and information systems with business processes, operational and strategic gaols of the company, actual requirements of certain divisions. We identify critical systems and services, as well as their availability and efficiency.
As a result of the audit, we make conclusions on whether the current information systems, IT services and business applications meet the requirements of business, develop recommendations on the optimization of information systems, their future development (improvement) and integration environment implementation; calculate mid-range IT budget.
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