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Audit and Assessment Guide

How to Choose the Right Assessment

Altius IT's assessments identify the areas that create the most value for your firm. By identifying and quantifying IT related strengths and weaknesses, we deliver bottom line results.  Our audits are assessments are organized into:

  • Protection against external threats (hackers)
  • Protection against internal threats (human error, theft of intellectual property, protection against viruses, suppliers, etc.)

Altius IT's services help protect you from your internal and external threats.  The Altius IT Audit Roadmap leads you through our 10 step audit process.

Protection Against External Threats

Audits and assessments are the first step in Internet risk management protection:

  • Firewall protection - penetration assessments evaluate the security of your firewall by simulating an attack from a malicious user (hacker).
  • Web applications - web sites are vulnerable to programming errors and emerging threats.  Our web application and database assessment checks for over 35,000 vulnerabilities in your web site html code and related interfaces to internal database systems (SQL databases, etc.).

Protection Against Internal Threats

Many threats originate inside the network instead of penetrating your perimeter from the outside.  Altius IT's 50 point network and security audit identifies internal security vulnerabilities such as weak passwords, inactive user accounts for past employees, unencrypted sensitive information, software patch management, rogue wireless access points, inconsistent anti-virus and anti-spyware updates, data backup errors, remote access to data, e-mail archiving, policies and procedures, and many other areas.

Our assessments and audits help protect you against internal security breaches and theft of your intellectual property.  Our services protect you against employee mistakes, supplier connectivity, subcontractor access to confidential information, and other individuals that are provided access to your internal networks.

Compliance

Altius IT provides Information Technology compliance audits and assessments to help organizations meet requirements, standards, and guidelines.

Certification

Upon completion of our services, Altius IT provides a certification letter for distribution to your customers, clients, and prospects.  We also provide you with the Altius IT Secure Seal that can be prominently placed on your web site.  This provides peace of mind that sensitive information remains secure.

Why Altius IT

We are certified by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association as Certified Information Systems Auditors (CISA).  Altius IT's experts provide outside, independent assessments that help organizations:

  • Achieve compliance with industry standards
  • Develop strong relationships with your customers
  • Minimize business and IT related risks
  • Reduce costs while ensuring information protection