Technology is a key success factor of most businesses today, helping them achieve business goals. However, if you are not cautious, technological flaws could allow cybercriminals to access your network and cause harm to your company. Technology auditing will help you combat these challenges.

A technology audit can assist you in better understanding and identifying gaps in your organization’s security, compliance and backup postures. While going through the auditing process can be confusing, especially with no prior experience, as your IT Partner, we simplify this process.

Having a managed service provider (MSP) by your side can help you avoid these stumbling blocks. An MSP can provide you with a prioritized list of the most critical to least critical issues, allowing you to decide how to proceed and allocate funds.

Why should you prioritize your organization’s technology gaps?

Here are some reasons why prioritizing technology gaps is critical:

Following an audit, you may discover hundreds of vulnerabilities, prompting the question, “Should all of these be fixed at once?”

Remediate the most critical gaps immediately

To make an improvement on a major highway, you wouldn’t close every lane at the same time. Instead, you would first block and repair the most damaged one during non-peak hours. The same is true for vulnerabilities, and it is always better to bridge the most critical ones first. Bridging all the gaps at once is not practical, both financially and in terms of time and effort.

Remediating the most critical issues not only helps your company but it also slows the cybercriminals looking for an easy way in. Furthermore, if you prioritize a lower-priority vulnerability first, cybercriminals can swoop in and exploit critical flaws in the blink of an eye.

Budget with Purpose

Budgets, when properly planned, can serve as a tool to assist you in meeting organizational objectives.

Randomly allocating funds to bridge gaps will neither help defend against threats nor be a wise budgetary decision. Instead, prioritize gaps and distribute financial resources based on vulnerability severity.

Control and manage upgrades and growth

In order for a business to evolve and stay competitive it is important to control, manage and schedule upgrades in a timely manner. Otherwise, it could lead to confusion, poor decisions, and a lack of user adoption, ultimately harming your company’s growth.

Prioritizing gaps and systematically bridging them based on their severity will help you to understand more the concept of upgrades and transformations.

Manage employees productivity

Tending to all gaps at once can overwhelm your employees, in turn lowering their productivity and deteriorating customer service. Avoid this to the greatest extent possible. If your customers and employees are dissatisfied, your business can suffer serious setbacks such as employee attrition, customer churn, accidental data breaches and so on.

Collaborate for success

Not sure where to start? An MSP can help you prioritize technology gaps in order to optimize IT platforms and help you get the most out of your technology investment, all while ensuring uptime and productivity.

Contact us to learn how we can help your organization successfully prioritize technology gaps to achieve targeted goals in a sustainable manner.