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Scheduling an IT Compliance Auditing Service by Britton Connell
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Scheduling an IT Compliance Auditing Service |
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Advice,Business
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When was the last time you had IT compliance auditing in your company? Don’t say that you have never had it before because it could mean you are at risk for a security breach. In case you aren’t aware, security breaches affect thousands of businesses every year – and can take everything from you. Hackers are able to find a variety of loopholes into your system and drain you of your finances, your intellectual property and even of your contacts. It’s important to focus on scheduling an IT compliance auditing service at least once a year – and more if you have had issues or if you make any updates to your infrastructure. Before you schedule the audit, there are a few things to consider. 1. Who will conduct the audit? All of the IT compliance auditing with your organization should be done by a third party. This ensures that all areas are checked and that you are given a full report of what’s going on. If you don’t hire a third party, you will have someone in the IT Department do the audit. If there is a glitch, do you think they are going to share that with you? Not if they think it will cost them their job. 2. What will the audit entail? Your IT compliance auditing needs to encompass all areas of your infrastructure. This includes your network, your servers, your employee email accounts and more. If you want to have some random tests sent to your employees to see how they handle a potential phishing attempt, that can be scheduled as well. Ultimately you have to do what is necessary to protect your company. Over $5 million is the estimated cost of a security breach. This doesn’t even count the losses you could experience in other areas – such as the loss of business and the loss of your reputation. You can avoid a security breach with audits to find out where the problems lie. This is the only way to get everything under control so you can avoid losing data or anything else. Companies that have been the victim of a security breach will tell you that they failed to schedule IT compliance auditing. If you ask them what they would have done differently, they would tell you that audits should have been scheduled and that it would have saved them a lot of time, money, and rehiring of IT professionals. An IT compliance audit doesn’t take a lot of time, but it is a necessity from time to time. You will be able to sleep a lot sounder knowing that hackers can’t find a back door into your network and obtain data that they shouldn’t have access to. You have data security in place for a reason. You have a comprehensive security policy in place for the same reason. Now you have to see if those measures are enough or if you need to do more in order to lock down your system.
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