An IT audit is not a vendor demo and it’s not a scan that prints ten pages of generic findings. It’s a working assessment of the systems that keep your business running, written for the person who has to act on it. Most importantly, it answers one question first: what happens if something breaks today?
The core areas a serious audit checks
- Backups: what actually backs up, how often, where, and — critically — how would you restore, and when was that last tested?
- Networking: routing, switching, Wi-Fi coverage, cabling, and what happens when the main internet link dies.
- Security: exposed services, default credentials, patching status, firewall rules and endpoint protection.
- Access control: who can reach what, whether offboarded people still have credentials, and how passwords are handled.
- Monitoring: whether failures are detected by systems or by staff reporting them.
- Downtime risk: single points of failure ranked by how each would hit the business.
How the audit runs
The audit works through the environment: inventory of hardware and software, interviews with the people who operate it, live checks of backup jobs, network config, access lists and monitoring, and a walkthrough of what happens during an incident. Findings are ranked by risk and cost to fix — not by how scary they sound.
What you receive
- A prioritized findings list — what’s urgent, what can wait, what’s worth doing now.
- A clear picture of your current runtime risk and the cost to close it.
- A practical remediation plan sized for a small or mid-size business — no enterprise-software-shaped recommendations.
- A follow-up path: fixes, ongoing support, or a re-audit.
Who is this for
Schools, clinics, offices and growing companies whose operations stop when the internet drops or a server fails. If a day of downtime costs your organisation more than KSh 15,000, an audit — and the fixes it produces — pays for itself many times over.