The IT infrastructure is a corporation's most valuable asset, delivering competitive advantages, processing the bulk of business transactions, and storing confidential information on all areas of the company, including financial data, customer and supplier databases, engineering schedules, business plans, human resource records, and email. Today most of this information is accessible online. And it's all vulnerable. It must be protected constantly and thoroughly without interrupting business. And you need continual security audits to test that protection
Today more than ever security audits are a fact of life for IT departments. The better we understand what they are and how to prepare for them proactively the easier they will become.
The purpose of this paper is to review how best to prepare for and proactively manage security audits.
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