IT auditing and asset management
A network and/or software audit (otherwise known as a ‘Technology Infrastructure audit’) provides you with detailed systems documentation, including a list of all hardware and software being used.
Our highly trained auditors visit your business premises, be it a data centre, computer room or office and gather a range of statistical information from your intelligent network devices. This allows them to analyse your network and compile a comprehensive audit report.
The audit services can be broken down into individual components or combined to give an overall picture. The 3 main elements of an IT audit are: -
1. Software Audit
2. Network and Hardware Audit
3. Infrastructure Audit
The benefits of Software Auditing
- Ensure you always receive the support and upgrades you are entitled to from suppliers
- Reduce the risk of viruses entering your systems
- Know exactly what software is being used and by whom
- Easily identify if users have software they don't need
- Improve planning by knowing when software becomes obsolete
- Increase your purchasing clout with your key software partners
- Ease the process of merger and acquisition by ensuring there is no software duplication
The benefits of network auditing
- Locating all components to ensure no duplication of purchases
- Planning for future IT requirements becoming easier
- More time to spend on new or important but less urgent projects
- frees up network ports that are no longer in use
- knowing what network kit is in use...and re-use equipment that is not being fully utilised
- reduces downtime through accidental hardware removal
- Flexibility to re-engineer traffic patterns based on traffic volumes
The benefits of an Infrastructure Audit
- A complete overview of the existing Network infrastructure
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Full knowledge of where IT cable runs are
knowledge of capacity (i.e. number of users) - this is a network audit function
- Optimum utilization of the existing IT investment
