Cyber Security Audits in Essex & London

Businesses are constantly diversifying their IT infrastructures to keep pace with new technology and their competitors. However, the growing use of devices, networks and cloud solutions makes it essential to identify, track and assess your IT resources. As part of our cyber security audit service, we help ensure your infrastructure is properly understood and potential security vulnerabilities are identified.

From corporate-owned resources to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), IT Asset Discovery compiles a comprehensive inventory of your IT assets. As part of our Cyber Security Audits, our specialists also assess which networks can access these resources, the software deployed across your organisation and the cloud services your business uses, ensuring no element of your IT environment is overlooked.

Method’s cyber security specialists not only have the experience and diligence to create a full Asset Register, but the tools to ensure this is kept up-to-date as your business develops.

Valuable data, whether customers’ personal information or sensitive company data, can easily become lost within a complex IT infrastructure, particularly one incorporating cloud services. Whether caused by a security breach or poor document management, misplaced or unidentified data can create significant risks for your business. Not knowing that you hold data which breaches GDPR requirements is not a sufficient defence against potential penalties.

As part of our comprehensive Cyber Security Audits, our document discovery service helps you build an accurate inventory of the data stored across your organisation, identifying where it is located and who has access to it. This gives business owners and managers a clearer understanding of the information they hold, including what constitutes personal data.

Beyond supporting GDPR compliance, data discovery can uncover information hidden or poorly organised across your networks. This allows you to address potential risks, reorganise files where necessary and ensure critical business data remains secure, appropriately accessible and easy to locate.

Does your business need to meet IT security standards beyond GDPR? For example, if your organisation accepts, transmits or stores cardholder data, you may need to demonstrate PCI compliance. Our cyber security audit services take relevant regulatory and industry requirements into account as part of a comprehensive security and compliance review.

Whatever security standards your business needs to meet, Method’s experienced specialists can assess your current position through comprehensive Cyber Security Audits. We identify potential compliance gaps, recommend appropriate improvements and help your organisation maintain a secure and compliant IT environment.

Once IT Asset Discovery is complete, the next step is to determine any areas that are at risk of cyber security breaches. With increasingly sophisticated threats to IT security a constant struggle, Vulnerability Scanners assess all devices and associated access/entry/exit points in your network to check they meet best practice, and clearly identify any vulnerable areas.

While Method can provide Vulnerability Scanning as a one-time task, we highly recommend they are done frequently to ensure your business’s IT resources are always secure. As cyber security threats are continually evolving, regular scans help prevent downtime at best and, at worst, loss of corporate data.

No employer wants to believe their staff is a threat to corporate IT security. Yet even the most hardworking and devoted employees can lower their guard when working from home and accidentally allow malicious individuals to access your network. That’s why the same security principles that staff adhere to in the office must be retained when working from home.

We help organisations achieve this by identifying the existing weaknesses within end-user environments and by offering ongoing and online security training with full management reporting to keep IT security principles at the forefront of their minds.