IT Audit Service for Paint Manufacturer

Business Challenge

The customer’s company requested IT audit services to investigate and clarify the following:

• Check the company’s IT infrastructure to have a clear overview of the expenses
• Expenses optimization for the IT department
• Application Landscape and Infrastructure Landscape
• Check and analyze the qualification of the current IT department
• Recommendations

Solution

IT auditing team analyzed all the points requested by the customer and as a result, provided a detailed report. During the information technology audit, team members personally visited the customer’s company. Moreover, an IT expert conducted an on-site analysis within several days. In addition, the specialist interviewed the heads of various IT departments to determine the current needs, problems of the departments and provide their solutions.

The scope of the audit service included the following points:

• Application and infrastructure landscape
• Security Program
• Asset Management
• Vulnerability Management 
• Change Management
• Software Development
• App access
• DB access
• OS access
• Virtual access
• Network access
• Disaster Recovery
• Vendor Management
• Anti-Malware
• Physical Security 
• IT employee’s duties and responsibilities
• Financial management and expenses
• Plans
• Conclusion with the detailed recommendations

IT audit includes findings of the IT Department audit team as well as provides recommended corrective actions according to the audited scope.

In short, the main recommendations were related to:

• Recommendations related to the updates or current ERP and the list of other alternative ERP systems that fit the needs of the organization
• Recommended technical solutions related to the custom development of own ERP / POS 
• Recommendations regarding possible changes in the processes / used tools in order to significantly reduce costs that the company spends yearly on different needs
• Recommendations about security actions to solve existing problems and prevent potential breaches
• Recommendations about technologies to use in order to create apps that process user-sensitive data with a high level of security and law compliant

Business Impact

A very important moment for providing IT audit service was a personal visit to the customer’s production. Accordingly, the IT auditing expert was able to effectively investigate the current state of the IT department, analyze the infrastructure and identify possible gaps. Hence, on-site presence allowed to provide audit service professionally and at the highest level. Another key point of audit service is personal communication with the in-house team on the customer’s side.

All things considered, audit service experts provided a detailed report. IT auditing document included information about the current IT infrastructure, IT department review & assessment, software solutions as well as recommended corrective actions. At the present time, the customer based on the IT audit report works on the internal structure and makes decisions regarding the implementation of the recommended solutions & actions.

So, IT audit includes valuable recommendations regarding annual cost savings of large amounts of funds, identified security problems & ways to solve them, and proposed technical solutions for basic POS/ERP systems.

Chudovo: IT auditing services provider

Audit service includes, but not limited to the review & assessment of the organization’s IT infrastructure, evaluation of used tools and approaches as well as the company’s adherence to regulatory guidelines. Our professional team is ready to help your organization in conducting IT audit. Based on the results of the audit service the organization sees the current state of IT infrastructure, existing gaps, and ways to solve them. In fact, after conducting it auditing companies optimize their internal flows and contribute to the efficiency. 

IT audit services play a significant role if:

• The company is looking for existing or custom software & hardware solutions that perfectly fit it. IT auditors are able to assess the current needs of all company departments and review current available used tools & solutions. Audit service professionals can provide either a plan for improvements to current software systems or propose alternative solutions in the form of ready-made or custom solutions. 
• The company wants to identify how to adjust the budgets, to save and reduce costs. Important to realize that IT audit may include not only recommendations regarding software solutions but also contain global recommendations regarding infrastructure changes and solutions based on budgets and their feasibility and effectiveness. IT auditors can identify and suggest changes that will help the organization save money or redistribute costs to achieve maximum productivity and efficiency
• The company wants to increase security. IT audit team is able to review, check, and asses current systems paying special attention to such a point as security. IT auditors investigate the existing infrastructure in detail, look for existing gaps and identify potential risks that could lead to irreparable loss of data, which in turn can lead to financial and reputational losses.

IT audit can cover many more topics than described above. Contact our professional team to discuss the details of the audit service for your organization.