See Exactly Where Your IT Stands With an IT Audit and Assessment

An IT audit and assessment looks at your whole IT environment: hardware, software, network, backups, support and documentation, and how well each one supports the business. An IT security audit is narrower. It checks your security controls and policies against a specific standard, such as a cyber insurance questionnaire or the FTC Safeguards Rule, and records whether each one is in place. If you want to know the overall health of your technology, start with an IT audit. If someone is asking you to prove your security meets a standard, you need a security audit.

No. A cyber risk assessment focuses on security threats: what could go wrong, how likely it is and what it would cost. An IT audit looks at the overall condition of your technology, including aging equipment, unsupported software, backups and how support works. Security issues spotted during an IT audit are noted in the report, and if they need a closer look, a risk assessment or security audit is the next step.

Common reasons are changing IT providers, a key IT person leaving, rapid growth, a new office, frequent slowdowns or outages, or simply not knowing what you have. It's also a sensible first step before building an IT strategy or budget, since both depend on an accurate picture of where you are today.

A plain-language report that covers each area reviewed, what's in good shape, what needs attention and what we recommend, ranked by priority. It includes an inventory of your devices and software with their age and support status. BCA walks you through it so you understand what each finding means for the business.

Very little. Most of the information is gathered from your systems directly, along with short conversations with the people who use and manage your technology. Anything that needs a closer look, such as a restore test, is scheduled with you so it doesn't get in the way of work.

It depends on the number of locations, users and systems. A single office with a few cloud apps is much quicker to review than a business with several sites and its own servers. BCA gives you a timeline before the work starts.

No. The report is yours, and you can hand it to your own IT staff or another provider. Many businesses do ask BCA to handle the fixes, since we already know the environment, and the findings can also feed into an IT budget or a longer-term IT strategy.