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Security audits help organizations find weaknesses in
their security. Security auditors do this by collecting and analyzing
data about an organization’s hardware, software and security policies.
The audits point out vulnerabilities in the network and suggest ways to
eliminate these vulnerabilities. With what they learn from the audits,
organizations can improve their security and protect the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their digital
information. For that reason, security audits are a vital part of
organizational management.

However, security auditing can cause
problems when not performed well. Security audits can interrupt the
routine of the organization. They can become overly annoying,
expensive, and disruptive. When performed poorly, the problems of
security auditing can negate the benefits.

Although poorly performed security audits can cause problems, these security audits are too crucial to simply not perform.

To
ensure the value of security auditing, you need to avoid any negative
side-affects of your audits. You have to make sure that your security
auditing disrupts day-to-day business as little as possible. You want
to ensure that the audits do not get in the way of any personnel. Make
sure that everyone can do their job as normal as possible. When
installing and running computer auditing software, make sure that the
software does not use excessive computer resources and that it does not
slow down the network in any way. Additionally, you want to keep costs
down, so avoid needless expenses.

Using quality software to
assist and/or perform security audits can greatly help keep the audits
as non-disruptive as possible. Security auditing software can often run
in the background, so that users of the network may not even notice.
Security auditing software can collect security data as well as
organize and analyze the data.

When selecting what software to
use, read customer reviews. Look for comments about the software’s
level of disruptiveness. Even software can disrupt business; it can
hinder the ability of other essential software programs as well as the
activity of personnel. Namely, you want to make sure the auditing
software will not overload the network’s capacity for data transfer.

Also,
you need to make sure the security software is secure itself. Both
security auditing software and human auditors access loads of data
about the organization that they audit. They have large amounts of
security clearances to perform their job. As a result, it is of grave
importance to ensure that they can be trusted to keep the data secure.
In analogy, you would not hire a security guard who steals. Ironically,
poorly designed security auditing software may create more access
points for hackers and open your network up to attacks. The best way to
determine whether or not a particular software program or auditing
company will open you up to attack is to check reviews of previous
users of the software or previous clients of the company.

When
performed correctly, security auditing will give you the needed
information and advice to repair any holes in your organization’s
computer security. Perform these audits with care to avoid any
unnecessary problems.