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Why You Need IT Auditing by Britton Connell
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Why You Need IT Auditing |
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Advice,Business
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Your business needs to do everything possible to ensure that it is running properly. One of the worst things that can happen to your business is a security breach. This will not only cost you money but cost you your reputation as well. It is not something that you can allow to happen and this is ultimately why you need IT auditing. The auditing is not something that you have to do on your own. If you do not have the personnel qualified to conduct an audit or you want to ensure that you are receiving a full report, a third party company can be hired. IT auditing is going to go through every aspect of your information security. This includes: - Infrastructure - IT security - Networks - Passwords - Intranet - Employee protocol All of these different aspects can be checked with an audit. If you do not conduct an audit on a regular basis, any one of these can become an issue and cost you a significant amount of money. The only way to know for sure that your system is locked down tight is with IT auditing. Your employees may never have been trained properly in order to maintain security. They may share passwords back-and-forth. They may not know how to identify phishing websites and they may be downloading applications on their computer that they shouldn’t be allowed to do. None of this is their fault if you haven’t trained them accordingly. IT auditing can help you to explore all of your challenges with training. Once an audit is complete, you will see where the holes are and begin to train properly. The training may take place with all of your employees or just within certain departments. The truth is that if you don’t conduct audits, you are putting your business in necessary danger. This includes a security breach that can leave you with nothing. The cost of a breach is an estimated $5 million – and large companies can experience an even greater loss. This is not something you want to risk and IT auditing can prevent it. Once you come to the realization that you need an IT audit, you have to determine who is going to provide it. If you have someone on your staff conducting the audit, you may not be able to trust the report. Many will hide certain facts in order to protect themselves or their friends within the company. This means that you may be getting reports on your desk to tell you that everything is kosher when there are actually significant holes within the network that needs to be patched. IT auditing can save you money and save you your company. It doesn’t take a lot of time to conduct and it can be conducted by someone other than one that is in your company. Third-party companies exist for the sole purpose of performing an audit so that you can be in the know about your company.
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