Cyber Security Audit
What is Cyber Security Audit and Why is it Important?
A cyber security audit is a comprehensive review of IT infrastructure, Software and Network Devices. Cyber Security Audits ensure that appropriate policies and procedures have been implemented and are working. The purpose is to identify any vulnerabilities that could result in a data breach. This includes weaknesses that enable hackers to gain unauthorised access, as well as weak internal practices might result in unintentional loss of sensitive information.
An audit should be performed by a qualified third party and the results of their assessment act as a verification to the stakeholders that the organisation’s defences are adequate.
Cyber security audits is must for an organisation’s defences against data breaches and privacy violations. A cyber security audit is designed to be a comprehensive review and analysis of organizations IT infrastructure. A cyber security audit will help organizations to mitigate the consequences of a data breach. It also demonstrate that the organisation has taken the necessary steps to protect client and company data.
After understanding the organisation’s systems and services, an auditor can identify security weaknesses, and determine whether their practices comply with the guidelines of relevant laws, such as the GDPR & CCPA/CPRA.
Who is the audit designed for?
Cyber security audits are valuable for organizations that have no clue about their internal and external risks, vulnerabilities and threat exposure. It is also useful to the businesses that have expanded, implementing various software and security controls but still not sure about the security of their data.
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How Tech Consultant can to assist your organisation
We specialise in providing cyber security and risk assessment services to organisations from a SME’s to Enterprise. Starting from basic consultation to identify your company’s resilience to a cyber-attack, through to being protected if an employee steals sensitive company information. Our Cyber Security team understand the complexities of protecting your organisation’s confidential data. We are experienced in conducting information security assessments and provide a comprehensive analysis of an organisation of any size or business.
Benefits of a cyber security audit
- The major reason to conduct a cyber security audit is to identify, address security and compliance related issues.
- With a cyber security assessment, the organisation will gain a comprehensive overview of their systems and get an insights to address vulnerabilities.
- This cyber security audit will mitigates the risk of a data breach and the repercussions that can come with that. For example, a security incident can result in significant financial and reputation damage.
- A security incident can resulted likely to leave suppliers and customers confident in the organisation. If the incident was serious, the stakeholders might even decide to take their business to someone else.
- A security incident applies for regulatory failures. An organisation unlike to levy fines if it demonstrate that they have taken appropriate steps to address data protection.
- With a cyber security audit, organisations can identify any non-compliant processes, whether that’s in relation to the GDPR, HIPPA, CCPA/CCPR or another law.
How often to conduct a cyber security audit?
Organisations should conduct a cyber security audit at least twice a year. However, more frequent audits may be help the organization to improve internal security.
One of the factors is the organisation’s size and availability of resources. These audits can cost a lot of money, so smaller organisations do not perform regular audits.
By contrast, large organisations conduct audits more frequently. With a greater number of systems and more complex network and procedures comes an increased cyber security risk.
Organisations should conduct a cyber security audit whenever they can make significant operational changes or a new version of a compliance standard is released.
Conducting a cyber security audit
Tech Consultant is for you if you’re looking for an audit cyber security practices, IT Governance in your organisation. We are here to help. Our Cyber Security Heath Check Services combines, on-site consultancy, audit support with remote vulnerability assessments. This cyber security health check provides a concise and provide a detailed report describing the current cyber risk status and critical exposures.
Our comprehensive audit is divided into two phases
Vulnerability Assessment
- Vulnerability Scanning and identification
- Patching
- Gateway Security Configuration and compliance checks
- Malware detection
- Web application scanning
- Data back-up review and analysis
Cyber Security Audit Remediation Action
- Breach response plan
- Staff training and awareness
- Detailed report including strategy overview
- Cyber resilience assessment
How can it help your organisation?
- Risk management
- Cyber risk governance
- Legal and regulatory requirements
- Incident management
- Training and security awareness
- Security controls
- Data security
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