As companies continue to invest in information security initiatives, they must develop a mechanism to ensure that their spendings in information security are paying off and they are compliant to internal security policies and procedures as well as legislations, regulations and standards.

Security auditing is the formal examination and review of situation of security in an organization. This process is necessary to ensure proper usage of information systems, to determine the effectiveness of existing security controls, to verify compliance with current security policies, procedures and guidelines. Effective auditing requires correctly recorded data that undergoes periodic review. Information security audit not only helps organizations to measure the effectiveness of their security initiatives but it also helps them to plan the improvements thereby introducing the process of continuous improvement.

Our audit methodology focuses on requirements of clients business and its information security needs. Audits are carried out to monitor compliance to applicable standards and best practices. This includes reviewing, compliance of information security initiatives to specific standard requirements like ISO/IEC 27001, effectiveness of its implementation and conformance to defined objectives.

TISS also partners with nCircle, the leading provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, to provide state of the art agent less product line for auditing the entire information technology stack across a global network.