Enterprise
Security Audit
An Enterprise Security Audit entails a review of all the
processes and practices followed by an organization while
ensuring an enterprise-wide security policy. Additionally,
it involves a technical audit conducted across all locations
and devices in the enterprise. Based on the spread and criticality
of the devices being audited, there is a judicious mix of
remote and on-site audits.
For the process and technical audits, interviews and questionnaires
have to be filled by people with relevant roles and responsibilities
in the organization. The technical audit requires the use
of industry-standard as well as custom-developed tools.
An Enterprise Security Audit helps you get the following:
- Expert risk assessment, conforming to leading international
standards, of your company's IT infrastructure.
- Identification of all the potential threats and vulnerabilities
within your company's IT systems, covering policies, processes,
networks and applications.
- A prioritization of the discovered weaknesses, based on
associated risk levels and impact.
- A baseline for developing your organization's information
security strategy.
- Recommendations on security solutions specific to your
business needs.
Analysis of threats and vulnerabilities in the network prepares
you to develop and fine-tune your security infrastructure.
Threats can arise from public and internal sources, or people
with knowledge of your network. Only a thorough examination
of all possible means of compromise can prepare you to defend
your organization against all eventualities.
Organizations increasingly see this activity as an annual
check that helps keep their businesses in line with their
security posture, and in tune with their future information-security
goals. As organizations change on a constant basis, in terms
of new technologies being adopted, rollouts of new applications,
mergers and acquisitions, the Enterprise Security Audit has
become a regular feature in medium-sized and large companies.
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