Assess the current state of the IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, network topology, and cloud resources.
Conduct a vulnerability scan, as well as an analysis of security systems including authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection.
Ensure that the company is compliant with relevant industry regulations and data security standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA) depending on the business area.
Evaluate data backup strategies and recovery plans to ensure systems can be recovered in the event of failures.
Analyze network architecture, performance, segmentation, traffic management and security.
Examine business processes and their alignment with IT systems, identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements to optimize performance.
Analyze the use of IT resources such as servers, data storage, software licenses to optimize costs.