Doing an information security audit is now important. This lets you see at what level the quality of your information security (Infosec) is.
But there are several kinds of infosec audits. Still, their main goal is the same. To find out any security gaps and vulnerabilities present.
Some of the reasons for these may be the people, services, processes, suppliers, and more.
So, what are the different kinds of audits that you can do?
Information Security Audit
Best Practice Audits
When doing this audit, you can make use of benchmarks or frameworks. You can either choose a national or international one.
In using this, you contrast what is the standard versus what those installed in your company. Thus, seeing the level of your security controls.
Some of the most common are:
- National Security Framework (ENS)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO 27000)
Also, bigger companies tend to have their own Infosec framework. They base this on the needs of their company.
So, if you have one, you can check your best practices. Then see if it still aligns with your company’s framework.
In short, this audit is for risk management. And also assessing risk exposure and the whole view of your company’s Infosec.
Most of the time, IT teams in the company do these audits. Especially those who specialize in Infosec. Have you tried doing this yet?
Legal and Regulatory Compliance Audits
This is a crucial type of audit. This means seeing if you follow the law and regulations.
So, you need to assess compliance with some of these:
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- Intellectual Property Law (LPI)
- Law on Information Society Services (LSSICE)
- Organic Law on Data Protection (OLPD)
Have you heard of any of these before? If not, it is high time for you to study them. But these are not all. There are still many others.
In short, this audit is for checking your legal compliance. So that you avoid any fines.
Then, doing this audit needs to have a legal standpoint. Thus, doing this needs a team of security lawyers and IT auditors.
So, they need to be an expert in what laws should apply. Did you already do this kind of audit?
Ethical Hacking
This is the last kind of Infosec audit. There are three kinds of ethical hacking, and each of the three has its scope and limits:
- vulnerability audits
- penetration testing
- Red Teaming
But all three have one common goal. To find any weakness and gap in your IT infrastructure. There are many ways and standards to do this, like:
- Center for Internet Security (CIS)
- Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
- MITRE ATT&CK
In short, this audit is for testing the resilience and security of your IT infrastructure.
Then, those who do these audits are most of the time cybersecurity experts. So, they are experts in both Infosec and programming.
Conclusion
So, what do you think? How will you fare with any of these audits? Will you do well? If not, what can you do to change that?
