How often should a security audit be performed?
Nowadays cyber crimes are increasing day by day. Most criminals increased in the cyber field. every one adapting to technology. With the help of technology, cybercriminals are doing crimes effectively without caught by police. Identifying cybercriminals is a very complicated process and time taken and sometimes unable to trace.
To secure organizations from these types of crimes they need to audit themself regularly to identify security loopholes in the organization.
Most companies think they are secure but in reality, it’s difficult to know without performing regular security audits.
Maintaining security is not simple. it is the responsibility of every employee when you hire security and it department in an organization that means you are not secure. without a proper security audit, you are unable to identify how much secure you are.
How often should a security audit be performed?
It is recommended to do it at least 2 times a year.
In general, How often should a regular security audit depends on the size of the organization, What type of data you are dealing with, etc.
If you are your organization is large and dealing with sensitive data or confidential data. in that case, you need to do security audits regularly. You need to every month at least a basic check-up and every quarterly complete security audit.
Sometimes also need to do special Audits.
how often should a company perform a Special cybersecurity audit?
We just need to do a special cyber security audit in the following cases:
- When changes happen in company infrastructure.
- After New System Installation or Upgrade.
- After New Application is Launched or Upgraded
- After Security incidents are beach happen.
- After installation of a new operating system or os updates
- When Migrating company infra from one place to another etc.
Above are some of the examples of when need to do special security audits.
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from HackerNet authored by CyB3rBEA$T. Read the original post at: https://hackernet.in/how-often-should-a-security-audit-be-performed/
