IT audit and architecture consulting

Scope of work

• Inventory of the estate, mapping of dependencies and traffic flows.
• Analysis of compute, storage and network infrastructure.
• Review of cloud architecture, virtualisation and containerisation.
• Assessment of security, backup and business continuity posture.
• Capacity, performance and operating cost analysis.

Deliverables

• A detailed audit report, with findings supported by technical evidence.
• Up-to-date architecture mapping, both physical and logical.
• An improvement plan prioritised by impact and effort.
• A costed roadmap over twelve and twenty-four months.

Technologies

• Reference frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, vendor good practice, ITIL principles.
• Inventory tooling, metric collection and load testing.
• An independent approach, with no tied resale of licences.

Engagement terms

Five to fifteen days depending on scope, on site and remote.

How the engagement runs

Phase 1 — Framing

• Framing workshop, definition of scope and assessment criteria.
• Document collection and access to the environments.

Phase 2 — Investigation

• Technical surveys, interviews with the teams, performance measurements.
• Identification of gaps, risks and blind spots.

Phase 3 — Analysis and recommendations

• Prioritisation of findings and target architecture scenarios.
• Costing of the scenarios and comparative analysis.

Phase 4 — Presentation

• Presentation to the steering committee and arbitration of priorities.
• Handover of the report and of the roadmap.