Many business owners research IT solutions themselves, however IT is a specialist area with so many challenges that it needs someone with a broad understanding of technology and knowledge of your business goals to develop and implement an effective IT strategy. A Chief Information Officer (CIO) takes full responsibility for a company’s technological resources while providing insight, advice, and leadership in IT strategy. This usually comes with a hefty salary but our Virtual CIO provides all the perks but for an agreed amount of time each month. Arrangements are flexible, giving you complete control.

An IT audit will analyzing and assess a company’s technological infrastructure to ensure processes and systems run accurately and efficiently, while remaining secure and meeting compliance regulations. The IT auditor also identifies any IT issues that fall under the audit, specifically those related to security and risk management. If issues are identified, IT auditors are responsible for communicating their findings to others in the organization and offering solutions to improve or change processes and systems to ensure security and compliance.

Identify – Develop the organizational understanding to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities.

Protect – Develop and implement the appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services.

Detect – Develop and implement the appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event.

Respond – Develop and implement the appropriate activities to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity event.

Recover – Develop and implement the appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity event.