IT Audits
A thorough IT security audit of your business helps to identify gaps and vulnerabilities in your systems, defences and processes and shows you what needs to be fixed.
Comprehensive IT Audit Services in Melbourne, Hobart and Australia-Wide
Our IT security auditors offer a range of general and specialised IT audit services, fully customised to your organisation's size, industry and risk profile. Our specialised audits include:
Essential Eight Audit: Assess your compliance with the ACSC's Essential Eight mitigation strategies - the baseline every Australian business should meet. We identify gaps and provide a clear roadmap for compliance.
Cyber Security Insurance Compliance: We can audit and fill in the gaps in your cybersecurity practices, to ensure you have the maximum protection in place to secure the best policy coverage for your business. We’ll even help you fill out the forms accurately.
Penetration Testing: Authorised, controlled simulated attacks on your network, applications and systems. We find exploitable weaknesses before malicious actors do, delivering detailed findings and fix priorities.
Vulnerability Assessment: A systematic scan and analysis of your IT environment to identify, classify and prioritise security vulnerabilities across endpoints, servers, networks and applications.
Architecture Review: An expert assessment of your IT infrastructure design including network topology, access controls, cloud configuration and security architecture benchmarked against current best practices.
Cloud Risk Assessment: A comprehensive review of your cloud environments (Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, Google and more) covering misconfigurations, access policies, data exposure risks and compliance obligations.
Identity Security Review: Audit of your user accounts, privilege management and identity controls aligned with our Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) service to address one of today's most targeted attack vectors.
Beyond the audit, we’ll implement a full IT security update.
An IT security audit can highlight issues that require specialist services to fix them. Our security suite provides end-to-end protection that can all be conveniently managed by us as your trusted IT partner.
IT Audit FAQs
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If it's been more than 6 months since your last IT security review, you should act now. We recommend a minimum annual audit for most businesses, with quarterly reviews for organisations handling sensitive customer data, financial records, or subject to regulatory compliance requirements.
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We design our audit activities to minimise disruption. Most assessments are conducted during business hours with minimal impact, and we'll agree the timing and scope with you in advance. Penetration testing activities can be scheduled outside business hours if preferred.
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You receive a detailed findings report with all identified vulnerabilities prioritised by risk level, clear explanations of what each finding means for your business, and practical remediation recommendations. We don't just hand you a list of problems, we walk you through the findings and can implement the fixes ourselves through our managed security services.
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Yes. While our offices are in Melbourne and Hobart, we provide remote IT audit and security services to businesses across Australia. Many of our audit activities can be conducted fully remotely with no loss of quality or coverage.
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The Essential Eight is the ACSC's recommended set of baseline cyber security mitigation strategies for Australian organisations. An Essential Eight audit assesses your current compliance level across all eight strategies and identifies gaps. If you operate an Australia Business and work with Government, an Essential Eight audit is highly recommended and compliance with the framework is increasingly expected by clients, insurers and government bodies.
Why IT Strategic?
✓ We’re an active member of the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) with access to the latest threat intelligence and defence guidance.
✓ We’re fully independent auditors with no vendor bias. Our only interest is your security
✓ We‘re local to Melbourne and Hobart, and can remotely support businesses nationwide
✓ Our audit findings are actionable, providing a clear remediation plan, not just a list of problems
✓ End-to-end capability: from audit through to implementation and ongoing managed security services