An IT infrastructure audit is the systematic assessment of your organisation's technology environment against security, performance, and compliance standards. For most Indian enterprises, a comprehensive audit reveals significantly more risk than leadership anticipated — not because the team is negligent, but because Indian enterprise IT environments typically evolve organically over years without structured architectural review.
The Six Domains of an Enterprise IT Infrastructure Audit
1. Network Architecture and Security
Audit checklist: Network segmentation between critical and general systems, firewall rule review (outdated or overly permissive rules are the most common finding), VPN configuration and access controls, wireless network security configuration, remote access controls for hybrid work environments, and intrusion detection or prevention system coverage.
2. Identity and Access Management
This domain generates the most critical findings in Indian enterprise audits: Active Directory (or equivalent) configuration review, privileged account audit (the number of accounts with domain admin rights is almost always higher than documented), multi-factor authentication coverage across critical systems, offboarding process effectiveness (ex-employee accounts with active access are a consistent finding), and service account management.
3. Cloud Infrastructure Configuration
Cloud misconfiguration is the leading cause of Indian enterprise data exposure: S3 bucket or Azure Blob storage public access review, IAM role policy review (overly permissive roles are standard findings), security group or network security group rule review, cloud logging and monitoring coverage, and encryption at rest and in transit configuration.
4. Data Backup and Recovery
Backup configuration for critical systems, backup testing frequency (documented backup does not mean working backup), offsite or cloud backup replication, recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) documentation, and ransomware resilience of backup environment (immutable backup or offline backup).
5. Patch Management and Vulnerability
Operating system patch currency across server and workstation fleets, third-party application patch management, end-of-life software inventory (Windows Server 2012, Office 2013, and SQL Server 2012 are still running in many Indian enterprise environments), and network device firmware currency.
6. Compliance and Documentation
DPDP Act readiness assessment, IT policy documentation currency, incident response plan documentation and testing, vendor management documentation, and CISO or equivalent ownership of security governance.
