IT systems and infrastructure must be reliable, secure and not vulnerable to hacking, spyware among other risks, this calls for audit and assessment.

The purpose of an audit is to act as a checklist to the organization’s security infrastructure and policy and how they are applied. A team of third-party technology experts from TDC conducts an organizational review to ensure that the security infrastructure and the policies are being followed to the dot. In this process, employees are interviewed regarding security roles and other relevant details.

Risk Reduction: 

IT audit also helps to reduce risks of data tampering, data loss or leakage, service disruption, and poor management of IT systems. An audit provides feedback on the most at-risk routes into organizations. Experts from TDC will try to get into the assessed organizations’ systems by any means possible, as a real-world attacker would. This could reveal lots of major vulnerabilities.

 Identifying threats potential: 

TDC has observed that Digital security assessment helps to identify dangers that have the potential to impact system security such as human threats, environmental threats, to technical threats.

Vulnerability identification: 

TDC believes that System vulnerabilities provide the opportunity for an exploit to occur; logically, therefore by definition, without a vulnerability present, there is no risk, while with vulnerability the risk can be potentially tremendous. Many of these vulnerabilities in system software, procedures and internal controls are the result of control not being applied.

Determine risk level:

After the assessment by the expert team from the TDC, the findings are useful to help examine the likelihood of risk occurrence and the impact. Therefore, the recommendations/mitigations are given to the assessed organization and hence it has the opportunity to mitigate the risk through the application of additional controls.

Risk response: 

When risk evaluated is at the level where attention is needed (e.g., a high or medium risk, or a combination of multiple types of low risk), management must decide which approach to take. Audit and assessment, therefore, help in achieving that objective.

So, TDC conclude by saying that digital security is key to the operation of any organization. However, because digital threats evolve daily, the risks are broader. At TDC, we offer security audit and assessment services to the needy.