The year-end audit that protects you both
Twelve months of changes. Zero updates to the documentation. Something's wrong that you don't know about.
Environments drift. New apps get installed, shadow IT accumulates, configurations get tweaked. An annual security audit catches what continuous monitoring misses - the gradual changes that add up to risk.
The scenario:
You want to conduct a comprehensive year-end security audit across your client base.
The prompt:
You're building a year-end security audit checklist.
Create an audit that covers:
- Asset inventory reconciliation (what exists vs. what's documented)
- Access review (who has access to what, is it still appropriate?)
- Configuration drift (have security settings changed?)
- Vulnerability status (what's unpatched, what's end-of-life?)
- Backup verification (when was last successful test?)
- Policy compliance (are policies being followed?)
- Third-party risk (vendor access, SaaS sprawl)
Include a report template for clients and internal documentation.