Information Security Auditing
It is critical for your organization to align with industry standards to avoid severe consequences due from a lack of controls, policies, and procedures. Mad Hatter Solutions will inspect your business operational procedures to confirm how well you protect your data. We will provide adequate and relevant recommendations that will improve your security posture where risk are identified. We provide the following audit services:
Step 1:
Planning
During the planning phase our consultants determine audit scope and objectives to measure your business to ensure you meet industry standards
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Determine audit subject.
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Define audit objective.
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Set audit scope.
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Perform pre-audit planning.
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Determine audit procedures and steps for data gathering
Step 2:
Fieldwork
Once planning the audit is completed, our consultants acquire data from your company and test it against industry standard controls to measure your security posture
1, Acquire Data
2. Test Controls
3, Discovery & Validation
4. Document Results
Step 3:
Reporting
Results are documented and reported to clients that display current vulnerabilities within the clients organization. Recommendations on how to handle the risk will be given to help improve the security posture
1. Gather Report Requirements
2. Draft Report
3. Issue Report
4. Follow up
Audit strategies can be deployed for short-term plans that address audit issues within a one year time-frame. Long-term strategies help an organizations overall IT direction by focusing on the entire IT environment.
The right controls will help protect an organization from IT threats by reducing risk. Controls need to meet IT standards, fit organization objectives, and cost-beneficial to the organization.
Continuous monitoring and improvement will help maintain risk at an acceptable-level. This will prevent organizations from suffering consequences such as financial losses, loss of critical data, or loss of reputation.