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Cyber Security Audit Checklist

by Rahman Marjan, from the Community

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This cyber security audit checklist helps IT supervisors and security teams evaluate organizational defenses across people, processes, and technology. Review policy governance, asset inventories, data classification and ownership, employee awareness, password hygiene, and BYOD controls. Verify business continuity and incident response plans, redundancy and restoration procedures, and regular testing. Assess hardening, patch management, antivirus coverage, logging, and remote access policies. Confirm physical safeguards for servers and workstations, secure backups, access controls, and surveillance. Ensure encryption, SSL, secure email gateways, and device wipe capabilities are in place, with ongoing monitoring and external penetration testing to uncover gaps.

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