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In today's world, stable operation and security of servers are extremely important conditions for successful business. That is why your company's server IT infrastructure must be built in such a way that it meets modern technologies, requirements and standards.
As technology evolves at an extremely fast pace, your company's growth and development requires the introduction of new technologies, improvements to existing IT services, and most importantly, optimization of your costs and resources to increase profits. It is important for a business leader to clearly understand the areas of development and improvement of IT services, because the investments you make in your IT department today may be used irrationally and tomorrow they may not be enough to meet the needs and requirements of your company.
That is why it is important to periodically conduct an IT audit, especially for large, complex infrastructures.
Server IT Infrastructure Audit is a set of works to examine and analyze the main components of the company's IT infrastructure for compliance with modern technologies and the needs of your business to identify opportunities for further optimization and modernization.
From the IT department's perspective, an independent external assessment of the state of IT services is an opportunity to optimize computing resources, increase the level of reliability and security, and obtain up-to-date technical documentation and instructions.
For Business, an IT audit is a tool that helps in developing a strategy and making decisions on areas for improving IT infrastructure to optimize the costs of IT services in the company.
In other words, an audit is a comprehensive, intelligent approach to organizing, modernizing, and optimizing IT infrastructure, which saves money, time, and nerves for the company and its managers. After all, there is no need to make unnecessary moves and expenses for implementing or using systems that entail other services - a miser, as you know, pays twice. And an audit is also a great opportunity to get a reliable partner for further fruitful cooperation.
When should an IT audit be conducted?
There are many cases where an IT audit will help your business or enterprise. An audit is needed if:
- The company's IT infrastructure is outdated (software and equipment have not been updated for several years), the last audit was conducted more than three years ago, or was not conducted at all;
- Your organization is rapidly growing and developing, hiring new employees, opening a new branch, or vice versa, the staff is being reduced and it is necessary to reduce IT costs;
- New services and systems appear in the company, new technologies are introduced;
- You are not satisfied with the performance of existing information systems (frequent errors, malfunctions occur), you receive constant complaints from users;
- You use the technical support services of an outsourcing company, or you are not satisfied with the work of your IT department.
In all these cases, it is necessary to understand the current state of the infrastructure in order to assess the compliance of IT services with business requirements and identify areas for further development of the company's IT infrastructure.
What types of IT audits are there?
The audit can be comprehensive, or it can examine individual services and systems:
- Network infrastructure and wireless network – general information about the network, office network organization diagram, description of the hardware, configured policies and rules on the equipment;
- Server infrastructure and virtualization system – maturity, performance of equipment and virtual servers, operation of the SZD, equipment life, availability of vendor support;
- AD Directory Service – analysis of group policies, domain controllers, and Active Directory structural organization;
- Corporate email system – setting up email sending rules, spam protection, filtering settings, DNS operation, etc.;
- Telephony – analysis of hardware and software components, how internal and external call routing is configured, and account configurations.
- Monitoring system – system settings, what metrics are being recorded, whether there are any employee notifications.
- Backup and recovery system – ensuring fault tolerance, creating backups and restoring;
- SCS and equipment placement – how is the structure of the cable systems arranged, is there access control, video surveillance, how does everything interact, in what conditions is the equipment stored, organization in the server cabinet (cable management);
- Workstations and peripherals – user equipment performance, installed software, availability of the latest system updates, etc.;
- SAM audit – comprehensive software asset management (SAM) services from software audit to software security organization and optimization of used resources, and availability of licenses;
- Business processes – analysis of the main indicators of the company's performance, principles of work and interaction;
- IT security – assessing the security of computer systems or networks by means of modeling an attacker's attack.
As a result of the audit, you will receive an independent expert assessment of the current state of your IT infrastructure, which may include the following:
- Detailed information about the current configurations, structure, and logical diagram of the functioning of the main services;
- Data on software and hardware (maturity and security level of installed equipment);
- Statistics on performance and peak loads in infrastructure operations;
- A list of services and processes that can or should be migrated to the cloud environment;
- Assessment of opportunities and areas for optimizing the existing IT infrastructure;
- A report describing the current state of the IT infrastructure and recommendations for improving the performance of IT services and correcting critical points (capital and operating expenses);
- Infrastructure passport (if necessary);
- A program for optimizing the existing IT infrastructure with estimated budgets and deadlines (if necessary).
Benefits of an infrastructure audit for your IT systems
What long-term operational benefits will you get from auditing your IT infrastructure:
- Improving data security . An IT audit will help you to highlight potential problem areas in your infrastructure, so you can create appropriate strategies to improve the security of your data.
- Reduce IT costs . Allows you to make informed decisions by properly planning IT costs.
- Alignment of IT and business goals. This is useful if you have plans for expansion, growth, and development in the near future.
- Objective assessment. Conducting an IT audit will allow you to realistically assess your system. You will understand whether your previous investments and IT strategies were effective, and what to pay attention to in the future.
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