Information Technology Audit and Compliance Services

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Create a sustainable IT environment

Harshwal & Company offers premier technical consulting, cybersecurity and compliance solutions to business across a variety of industries. We can help you navigate the scope and complexity of your specific audit and security assessment needs, evaluate the IT utilization level of existing infrastructure, and evaluate compliance based on your unique business goals.

The result is a sustainable IT environment that can be properly founded, implemented, and maintained now and in the future.

Paperless Audit

Why go paperless?

One of the keys to optimizing a production process is capturing information at its root source. This means when data enters your firm, it should already be in a digital format. A paperless communication process reduces the risk of client’s vulnerable information getting leaked or stolen. If you haven’t gone paperless yet, Harshwal can help.

Cloud Services

Why transition to Cloud?

Making the move to cloud services provide your organization with a way to recover data and implement failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe.

In an age when breaking the encryption on a password-protected file is easy, security should be top of mind. Moving to the cloud can help ensure that no sensitive client information can be sent via email. Having cloud portals can also lead to less paper, as providing a paper copy of a document is no longer necessary.

Cloud subordinate disaster recovery is a backup and restore strategy that involves storing and maintaining copies of electronic records in a cloud computing environment as a security measure. Our team can help implement this smart strategy, every step of the way.

Planned Annual IT Budgets

Have you planned your IT budget?

Every firm must have a strategic budget plan for every financial year, and it should be updated and implemented at the start of the financial year. If you haven’t planned your IT budget yet, you absolutely should — and our experts can help get it done.

Centralized Scanning

Can centralized scanning boost operations speed?

Absolutely. Centralized scanning will process more paper faster than any other method, because it is a dedicated resource. Centralized scanners are also more robust, and are purposely designed for higher scan volumes, which are common with centralized scanning procedures.

To optimize scanning production, your administrative personnel will need to be well trained on document organization and have a work space where employees can immediately review, organize, and save the resource document.

By partnering with Harshwal, you can seamlessly train your team and become more efficient.

Data Backup

Is your data being backed up properly?

Is your organization data being backed up, verified and stored on-site and off-site on a daily basis? It should be. Best practices dictate that it’s important that at least one person from each department is knowledgeable on how to find and restore a given file.

We can help make sure that all your media that is moved physically off-site is encrypted, to be in compliance with state cybersecurity laws or other regulations.

Data Encryptions

Are your communications secure?

In today’s world where much of our personal information and financial transactions are processed via the internet, data encryption is an essential element for every business organization.

Any time that you send information across the internet, it can be viewed by just about anyone that would want to see it. Encryption is the process of changing information in such a way as to make it unreadable to third parties, so that it’s only accessible to people with select knowledge (usually referred to as a “key”) that allows them to change the information back to its original, readable form. Harshwal can help you make the change to a more secure organization through data encryption.

Cybersecurity

Is your organization secure from cyber-threats?

We live in an increasingly networked world, from personal banking to government infrastructure.

Protecting those networks is no longer optional. Cyber-risk is now firmly at the top of the international agenda, as high-profile breaches raise fears that hacker attacks and other security failures could endanger the global economy.
Cybersecurityrefers to a range of concepts, including the practice of protecting an organization’s information, networks, computers, and diverse resources against attacks from hackers and other malicious actors. Our specialized experts can help implement a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.

Disaster Recovery Plan

Could you quickly recover from a disaster?

To effectively recover your IT operations from a state of disaster, your organization must have an impregnable disaster recovery plan. We partner with clients to design and implement a disaster recovery plan.

Get a recovery plan that includes:

Site level redundancy
Device level redundancy
Link level redundancy
Storage level redundancy
Backup management
Virtual machine system snapshot
Replications System
Planned redundancy testing for each redundancy level

Remote Access Technology

Do your remote employees have access to the resources they need?

Harshwal & Company helps our clients create the appropriate remote access server for your staff to improve their productivity and flexibility, reduce their onsite dependencies, and get the help that they need on sick days or in unanticipated emergencies.

Firm Procedures Manuals Management

Do you have well-managed documentation?

In today’s business environment, your organization should have a well-organized and periodically updated retention policy. You should also have document retention cycle and accountability for cleaning out obsolete files. Harshwal can help with these essential needs.

In consulting on firm procedures, we’ll first consider the assessment of document management tools and procedures followed at a client site. A CPA firm must have a document management tool to manage, save, and secure data from any applicable source.

IT Audits and Trainings

Do you have training for accounting, audit and IT services?

IT audits and trainings should be done by an independent security consultant/network investigator who will review firewall, anti-virus, spam and physical security. Competent cybersecurity plans will provide updates whenever major changes are made to the firm’s infrastructure, and mandate annual cybersecurity training for all firm personnel. We can work with your team to develop a state-of-the-art program.

Infrastructure Assessments

Do you complete regular upgrades of core software and IT infrastructure?

Assessment should be done to standardize and evaluate the purchase of new computers and operating systems for firm stability, and verify all workstations have adequate RAM for functionality such as multiple monitors and particular enterprise applications.

We also provide substantiation of the firm’s audit/ accounting applications feasibility on the current and upcoming operating system versions, and we identify and consult on procedures to update software/applications installed on organization’s workstations and servers. Updates should be scheduled on a periodic basis.

Get Started with Harshwal

Ask Harshwal & Company LLP about how to get professional, attentive auditing services team on board, for a successful result that the client can show off to regulators or anyone else. We love to work with our clients to meet their needs and present their operations in a good light.

Information Technology Audit