IT HealthCheck

What would be the impact to your business if you lost access to your IT right now?

The HealthCheck will help you with the following areas of your use of IT:

• Your Technology - Backing up, keeping systems up to date
• Your Staff - How they use IT, IT Policy awareness
• Planning - Staff Training, IT Policies, Business Continuity

The IT HealthCheck will give you a traffic light (RAG - Red, Amber, Green) status of the most important aspects of your use of IT. It bundles together aspects of Disaster Recovery, Security and Maintenance to make sure you are aware of the main risks and so can take appropriate action.

The value of an IT HealthCheck is applicable to portfolio workers who work independently up to larger organisations who don’t retain IT staff. The scope of each IT HealthCheck is tailored to your organisation.

An IT HealthCheck would typically include:

Business Continuity

Do you have any Disaster Planning and Recovery systems in place? Have you ever looked at your business and identified those parts you simply must keep running to stay in business? These are important and often overlooked aspects and have as much importance regardless of the size of your business. Do you have a plan in place should you loose your IT infrastructure? Are you backing up your data but not testing that you can also recover it?

Security and Maintenance

Are you keeping your operating systems and applications up to date? Have you implemented a firewall and anti-virus? Are your systems physically secure, do you have an up to date asset list? Do you have the installation media and correct number of licences?

Policy Review and Staff Awareness

Do you have adequate policies in place and do staff know about and adhere to them? Are your procedures documented?