IT Audit Services
Know what you are actually running: a structured audit of architecture, security, cost, and process — delivered as a ranked, costed report with a 90-day plan.
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{ 01 } — Audit process
Look everywhere. Rank ruthlessly.
An audit that lists two hundred findings without priorities is noise. Ours ends in a ranked plan: what to fix now, what to fix next, and what to accept in writing — each with its cost and its consequence.
Inventory
- Systems & architecture map
- Access & credential review
- Vendor & license inventory
- Data flow mapping
- Cost baseline per system
Assess
- Security posture
- Reliability & backup reality
- Code & debt review
- Process & ownership gaps
- Cost against actual usage
Plan
- Risk-ranked findings with evidence
- Costed fix options per finding
- 90-day action plan
- 12-month roadmap
- Walkthrough with your leadership
The report is written to be executable by anyone: specific findings, evidence, and fixes with effort estimates — no vague “modernize your stack” slides. If a finding cannot survive the question “show me,” it does not go in.
Many clients run the 90-day plan with their own team. Some hand it to us. The audit is honest either way, because it has to survive both readers — a report that only makes sense if you hire the author is a brochure.
Ranking is the discipline. Every finding lands in one of three buckets — fix now, fix next, accept and document — each with the cost of fixing and the consequence of not, so the plan is a set of decisions, not a pile of anxieties.
{ 03 } — What we examine
The six questions that matter.
Is it secure?
Access sprawl, patching, exposure, and the basics attackers actually use.
Will it survive failure?
Backups that restore, recovery time reality, and single points of failure.
What does it truly cost?
Licenses, cloud spend, and the hidden hours of workaround labor.
Can it support the roadmap?
Whether the architecture carries next year’s plans or blocks them.
Who can break it?
Bus factors, ownership gaps, and the accounts that should have been closed — risk that lives in people, not servers.
Is the data defensible?
Where sensitive data lives, who can touch it, and whether that story survives a regulator’s or an acquirer’s questions.
{ 04 } — Audit toolkit
Read-only by default, evidence-first always.
The audit runs on read-level access and exports — light on your team, heavy on evidence. Every tool leaves your environment exactly as it found it.
{ 05 } — Ways to engage
Scope the audit to the question you have.
Focused audit
One lens — security, cost, or a single critical system — when you need a specific answer fast, not the full estate.
- Tight scope, fast turnaround
- Same evidence standard
- Expandable later without rework
Full estate audit
All six lenses across the estate — two to four weeks, ending in the ranked report, the 90-day plan, and the 12-month roadmap.
- Two to four weeks, estate-wide
- Ranked, costed findings
- Leadership walkthrough included
Audit + fix
The audit, then execution — our delivery team runs the 90-day plan, or supports yours while they do. The findings stay vendor-neutral either way.
- 90-day plan executed
- Your team or ours
- Re-audit to close the loop
{ 06 } — The audit lenses
One audit, six lenses.
Servers, cloud accounts, and licenses — what you run, what it costs, and what sits idle.
Access controls, patching, backups, and the gaps between policy and practice.
Code quality, technical debt, and the bus factor on every critical system.
Where sensitive data lives, who touches it, and whether that survives an auditor’s questions.
Every SaaS and support contract checked against actual usage — renewals stop being automatic.
Who owns each system, what is documented, and what walks out the door with the next resignation.
{ 07 } — When it pays
When an audit pays for itself.
{ 08 } — What changes
From guessing to knowing.
Before
Next year's IT budget is a guess with a buffer.
After
Line items tied to systems, usage, and a costed roadmap.
Before
Risk lives in a few people's heads.
After
A ranked findings register with evidence — readable by any successor.
Before
SaaS renewals approve themselves every year.
After
Every contract checked against actual usage before it renews.
Before
Due diligence triggers a company-wide scramble.
After
Answers on file before the questions arrive.
Before
Advice arrives as “modernize your stack” slides.
After
Specific findings with effort estimates — executable by any vendor, including not us.
Where this applies
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Get expert guidance on your systems.
Book a free consultation call — a senior team member replies within one business day with real thoughts, not a sales script.
Frequently asked questions
Typically two to four weeks depending on estate size — interviews and access in week one, assessment next, report and walkthrough at the end.
Read-level access to systems and an hour with each key owner — we work under NDA and your access policies, and we leave everything as we found it.
An executive summary, ranked findings with evidence, costed options per finding, and the 90-day / 12-month plans.
No — and the structure keeps us honest. The report must be executable by any vendor or your own team, and plenty of clients take it and run. If it only made sense to hire us, it would not survive that reader.
Yes — it is one of the most common cases. We work read-only, under NDA, and the report is written factually enough to share with the vendor; a good one will find it useful rather than threatening.
If you want — the plan is vendor-neutral by design, and our delivery team can execute it or support yours.
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