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IT Audits: A Checklist
By:Joshua Feinberg
IT audits need to be as comprehensive as possible. To ensure you hit every area you need to during your IT audits, review this checklist.
• IT Audits - Physical Security:
To ensure that appropriate physical controls are in place to secure technology assets (servers, networking and telecommunications equipment) preventing unauthorized access.
• IT Audits - Logical Security:
To ensure that appropriate software security controls are in place to prevent viruses and unauthorized data access.
• IT Audits - Logistical and Environmental Controls:
To ensure that systems, networking and telecommunications equipment are housed in facilities designed to offer proper environmental conditions (regarding temperature and dust regulation, furniture, racks and physical equipment organization)
• IT Audits - Configuration Management:
To ensure that systems are installed and configured according to established requirements and standards.
• IT Audits - Systems Administration Procedures:
To ensure that security and systems administrative procedures are properly defined and assigned to staff.
• IT Audits - Hardware Inventory Management:
To ensure that all hardware is properly inventoried and that warranty and maintenance records are maintained.
• IT Audits - Software Licensing Compliance:
To ensure that all software usage is in compliance with licensing agreements, and that appropriate licensing records are maintained.
• IT Audits - Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Procedures:
To ensure that data backups are being made and tested on a scheduled basis, sufficient to recover in the event of a systems failure, data loss, or other disaster.
• IT Audits - Documentation:
To ensure that all systems, procedures, and policies are properly documented and updated, including the appropriate retention of systems reports, error, help desk, and other related problem logs.
• IT Audits - Performance and Capacity Planning:
To ensure that all systems are performing according to required levels, considering uptime, systems availability, bandwidth, data storage availability, and the archival of older data files.
• IT Audits - Change Management: to ensure that all major changes to systems hardware and software are properly documented, tested and verified prior to implementation, with appropriate back-out plans.
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