Find out what
you actually have.
Estates drift. People leave, documentation stops matching reality, and the only complete picture lives in the heads of whoever is still around. An audit replaces that with something written down: what exists, what state it is in, and what to deal with first.
Inventory, then risk,
then a plan.
An audit that produces a list of two hundred findings is not useful. The point is to know what matters, in what order, and what it will take.
We map what is actually running: hosts, services, dependencies, and the parts nobody has looked at in a while. Reverse-engineered from the systems themselves rather than from an old spreadsheet.
- Host, service, and dependency mapping
- Distribution and version state across the estate
- Storage, network, and virtualization layout
- Access paths and who holds the keys
- Written documentation of the current state
With the inventory in hand we assess it against how these systems should be built: single points of failure, unsupported releases, backups nobody has restored, and configuration that will not survive a reboot.
- Single points of failure and missing redundancy
- End-of-life and unpatched systems
- Backup coverage and whether restores work
- Security baseline and exposed services
- Monitoring gaps and alerting that nobody reads
Findings ordered by what they would actually cost you, with effort and sequence attached. You can hand it to your own team, put it out to tender, or have us do the work.
- Findings ranked by risk and business impact
- Effort and sequencing for each item
- Quick wins separated from structural work
- Budget-shaped options rather than one number
- No obligation to use us for the remediation
What an audit answers.
What it doesn't.
- You inherited an estate and nobody documented it
- The person who knew how it worked has left
- You are planning a migration and need a baseline
- An auditor or insurer is asking questions
- You need to justify infrastructure spend
- Due diligence before or after an acquisition
- Fix anything, it tells you what to fix and in what order
- Replace ongoing monitoring with a point-in-time snapshot
- Serve as a formal compliance certification
- Stay accurate forever, estates drift again
An audit is a starting point. If the findings need acting on, that becomes managed services or a scoped project, and you are free to take the report elsewhere.