IT Audit and Assurance are two sides of a coin. Both are incomplete without each other. To have the assurance you should conduct and audit and to conduct an audit you need assurance. In Audit we systematically collect and evaluate evidence to determine whether a computer system maintains data integrity, safeguard assets, allows organizational goals to be achieved effectively, and uses resources efficiently. Integrity means accuracy and completeness of information and to its validity as per norms. Effective systems leads the organization to achieve its objectives. An efficient system uses optimal resources to achieve the required objectives. Any Auditor should get to know the users of systems and the decision-making environment in the auditee organization while evaluating the effectiveness of any system.
In the global era of digitization and its associated rising IT Security threats, Downtime and outages, Issues regarding integrity of the sources, rising concerns of the governance mechanisms, increasing global and domestic compliance any management needs the to be sure that they are heading in the right directions aligned with their goals.
IT Audit & Assurance Offerings
IT process and IT general computer controls are key to safeguarding assets, maintaining data integrity and the operational effectiveness of an organization.
We identify, develop and test internal controls and policies that are in aligned with the goals of the company and adherence to the compliance as per the laws and regulations. We ensure the entire coverage from management, business processes, applications and technology controls.
Our IT services assist and advise your organization with the implementation and operation of an efficient and effective IT organization and processes by aligning IT with organizational objectives. Fihil creates value by providing companies with the right fusion between business and IT, helping organizations with implementing IT governance & management practices, using a combination of processes, structures and rational analyses, based upon best practices frameworks like COBIT 5 and ITIL. Our experts can assist you to identify the gaps, develop or restructure the controls and test internal controls and policies. Our control checks are developed to address management objectives ranging from business process, to application and technology infrastructure controls.
Typically, following are considered as a part of audit
- Organization and its associated policies, procedures and processes in regards to IT services
- Network General Controls
- Applications General Controls
- Logical and Physical Access controls
- Change management
- Security Controls
Security is key to a company’s internal control environment and to ensure availability and reliability of its data. Lapses in Application security design may lead to leakage of sensitive and confidential information, interruption in mission-critical business operations or fraud left undetected. The Technology Infrastructure security provides enhancement to a secure computing environment. This includes logical security across databases, operating systems (OS) and network components like firewalls, routers, etc.
Our IT security audit practice performs security audits to ensure the security at each corner of your technology infrastructure.
Every organization has to have a reasonable assurance that all of their installed procedures and frameworks, including technology deployment are reasonably safe from any kind of security lapses and loopholes. Risk based Info security services play a significant role in overall overall security sustenance.
The Apparent Benefits of Info Security & Risk Assessment Include:
- Providing Framework: Written policies and procedures provide the framework for a company’s entire operation.
- Baseline Review: The baseline requirements are intended to create a minimally acceptable security standard for all the IT departments on campus.
- Security Roadmap: Info security & risk assessment procedures help to highlight the most pertinent themes that every IT department will need to put on their list of security priorities.
- Remediation Guidance: Info security & risk assessment services offer remediation guideline facility for the identified vulnerabilities in any type of testing.
- Security Assurance: Risk assessment services allow businesses to assure overall security standards in an organized and reliable fashion.
We have all the in-house expertise to help you out with critical infrastructure protection, database and middleware protection, infrastructure penetration testing, network protection, physical protection and platform protection. It includes following services
- Data Security and Privacy Audit
- Application and Application Security Audit
- Network Audit
- BCP and DR controls audit
- Implementation for Web Application Firewall (WAF), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Information protection
Many organizations, no matter their size or scope of operation, have come to realize the importance of using information technology to stay ahead in the current global scenario. All types of organizations have invested in information systems because they understand the numerous benefits technology can bring to their operations. Management initiative to recognize the need to ensure IT systems are reliable, secure and invulnerable to computer attacks serves as a crucial base to safeguard the systems.
The importance of information security in Application and Infrastructure Protection is to ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability. Confidentiality of data means protecting the information from disclosure to unauthorized parties. Protecting this information is the baseline of information security.
We can help you in protecting and setting up the necessary policies and procedures (e.g. with ISO 27001) in order to safeguard your information. It includes following services.
- Information Classification
- Information access controls lifecycle assessment
- Information flow controls and storage lifecycle assessment
The objective of the operating systems audit/assurance program is to provide management with an independent assessment relating to the effectiveness of configuration and security of the operating systems operations systems with the enterprise’s computing environment. Hence you need to have adequate against
- Tampering by users,
- From accessing, destroying, or corrupting another user’s programs or data.
- Application modules from destroying or corrupting other modules.
- Own modules from destroying or corrupting other modules.
- Its environment including power failures and other disasters.
Our technology experts can give you that assurance as per your organization requirements. We ensure that you have at best practices implemented in your process structure.
Application & Infrastructure Protection
We have all the in-house expertise to help you out with critical infrastructure protection, database and middleware protection, infrastructure penetration testing, network protection, physical protection and platform protection. It includes following services
- Data Security and Privacy Audit
- Application and Application Security Audit
- Network Audit
- BCP and DR controls audit
- Implementation for Web Application Firewall (WAF), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Applications Audit
Whether your applications have been developed in-house or commissioned through a third-party agency, time constraints and a lack of awareness around security best practice can often result in risk of compromise due an application. Such systems put the integrity and confidentiality of your corporate information and systems at stake. Our team of experts from application security domain can provide a comprehensive security analysis of your application deployment.
- Conduct a review of a system's design
- Identify security implications of the design
- Perform threat modeling
- Perform a gap analysis between the design and industry best practices
- Enumerate conflicts between business requirements and security considerations so informed tradeoffs are made
- Recommend solutions for addressing security weaknesses
- Can be conducted prior to implementation, or once in production
- Conduct a review of a system's design
- Identify security implications of the design
- Perform threat modeling
- Perform a gap analysis between the design and industry best practices
- Enumerate conflicts between business requirements and security considerations so informed tradeoffs are made
- Recommend solutions for addressing security weaknesses
- Can be conducted prior to implementation, or once in production
Infrastructure Audit
The objective of the operating systems audit/assurance program is to provide management with an independent assessment relating to the effectiveness of configuration and security of the operating systems operations systems with the enterprise’s computing environment. Hence you need to have adequate against
- Tampering by users,
- From accessing, destroying, or corrupting another user’s programs or data.
- Application modules from destroying or corrupting other modules.
- Own modules from destroying or corrupting other modules.
- Its environment including power failures and other disasters.
Our technology experts can give you that assurance as per your organization requirements. We ensure that you have at best practices implemented in your process structure.
The compliance pressure on the data stored in corporate databased is growing due to government regulations that organizations must understand and comply with. Data professionals need to be more vigilant in the techniques used to protect their company’s data, as well as to monitor and ensure that sufficient protection is in place. Such requirements are driving new and improved software methods and techniques.
Majority of the breaches in recent times has shown that major data breaches happens through database itself.
Out IT Audit practice has database specialists that can perform specific database requirement based audit for database from security, compliance and operational perspectives.
Today, any business relies heavily upon business networks. Due to evolution and changes in networks on almost daily basis and it has become impossible for network administrators to control every aspect of these entities. After some time span, new devices, hardware, and software are added or replaced to your company network without your knowledge, These changes have a serious impact on your network security. Hence it is advisable to conduct network audits on a regular basis.
An Application Security Audit is conducted to understand security risks that are associated with your web applications and client server applications.Systems exposed over internet (such as web portals or similar services) serves as a gateway to compromise internal networks.
Our team of experts carry out Application Security assessment on following points:
- The design of each component
- Web site communications
- Application layer
- Web services
- Database
- Interfaces
Fihil can understand the importance of a secure infrastructure, for your business needs. Our expert team can assist you to examine the current state of your infrastructure to assess the resilience of your security controls, and to identify all the ways that can lead to compromise in security. Experts at Fihil reports details on loopholes and best practices that address the security vulnerabilities within your infrastructure that could potentially be exploited in an attack. Our team can provide you the recommendations for the best methods or controls that help you to strengthen infrastructure security environment tailored to your unique business requirements and industry best practices.