What is an IT Security Audit?

An IT security audit is a systematic evaluation of your information technology infrastructure, policies, procedures, and practices to assess your current security posture. The primary goal is to identify potential vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and risks within your IT environment.

During an IT security audit, we examine various aspects such as:

  1. Network Security: Assessing firewalls, routers, switches, and other network devices to ensure they are configured securely and are protected against unauthorized access.

  2. Software Security: Evaluating software applications for security vulnerabilities, ensuring they’re updated, patched, and configured securely to prevent exploitation.

  3. Data Protection: Examining how sensitive data is stored, accessed, and transmitted to ensure it’s adequately protected against unauthorised access or breaches.

  4. User Access Controls: Reviewing user accounts, permissions, and access levels to determine if proper controls are in place to prevent unauthorised access to critical systems or data.

  5. Physical Security: Assessing physical access controls to IT infrastructure, such as data centers or server rooms, to prevent unauthorized entry or theft.

  6. Compliance: Ensuring that you’re adhering to relevant industry regulations and standards.

After conducting the audit, we generate a comprehensive report outlining our findings, the vulnerabilities discovered, and recommendations for improving your overall security posture. 

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At DNG Technology, we’re a small business – just like many of the clients we help. We know firsthand how hard you work to build what you have, and how devastating it would be to lose it. A cyber breach isn’t just a technical issue – it’s personal. And with an average cost per breach of $50,000 for small businesses in Australia, it’s not something anyone can afford to ignore.

We help protect your business by training your team with practical skills, real-world awareness, and everyday habits that stop 95% of the threats you’ll face before they ever become a problem. Then we fill the remaining gaps with proven security strategies, from the government’s Essential Eight to frameworks that make sure you’re covered under Australian privacy law and other compliance requirements.

If you’d like to talk through where your business might be vulnerable, and how we can help fix it, give David or Greg a call on (08) 7078 0310. We’d love to hear your story and see how we can support it.

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