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What are Security Audits?

Security audits are part of the risk assessment process, in which a series of pre-defined security checks are performed on the organizational information systems and security controls to ensure that they exist and are well-configured to face cyber-attacks.

Discovering security gaps with the audit process will allow organizations to calculate the risk level according to the likelihood of exploiting the security gap multiplied by the impact that the exploitation of the gap can cause to the organization (Likelihood * Probability = Risk).

How Can Security Audits Help My Organization?

Performing periodic security audits will allow the organization to effectively enhance the security level and comply with various regulations:

  • Increase the level of confidence to secure digital data.
  • Comply with laws, regulations, and rules.
  • Encourage higher management to increase cyber-security in their organization.
  • Decrease the chances for reputational and financial losses due to cyber-attacks.

Security Audits vs. Penetration Tests

Security audits are supplemental to penetration tests (and vice versa) since they add a solid layer of assessment via an in-depth technical analysis of the configurations on IT infrastructure, source code, and cyber-security controls that attackers cannot access.

The security audits process makes it possible for discovering security loopholes that have strong and lasting impacts but are challenging to identify by penetration tests.

The Security Audit Process

Our security audits methodology is a combination of internally developed checks and commonly known methodologies:

  • Determination of valuable assets and evaluation of the scope.
  • Threat mapping according to the relevant threats of the assessed organization.
  • We are performing gaps analysis between the current and the desired state of the technological and procedural readiness for handling cyber-attacks.
  • An in-depth review of configurations and policies within cyber-security controls.
  • Calculation of risks according to the likelihood of exploitation and business impact once the gap will be misused.
  • Establishing a remediation plan according to cost and efficiency.
Security Audits Process

Our Services

Cloud Security Audits

A cyber security cloud audit is essential for a cyber security risk assessment process. During the audit, identity management, network security, storage, and other policies are reviewed. The auditor will examine security postures in compliance with CIS benchmarks and internally develop best practices to ensure that the cloud infrastructure is secured and robust against cloud infrastructure cyber attacks.
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Code Review

A secure code review does not attempt to identify every issue in the code. Yet, it provides insights into what types of problems exist and helps the application developers understand what categories of wide cases exist. The goal is to provide the developers with information to help them make the application’s source code secure.
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IT Gap Analysis

An IT cyber security gap analysis is part of the risk assessment process, which helps organizations to identify their current IT security posture. After completing the gap analysis, a remediation strategy is developed, which could include implementing additional security controls and hardening existing ones. The security posture will significantly improve after the implementation, and the risks will be mitigated.