Technology Audits

Independent technology audits provide an objective assessment of your IT environment — identifying risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities you may be too close to see. Alchemilla Ventures conducts thorough technology audits for organisations.

The Value of Independent Assessment

Internal teams, by their nature, develop blind spots. A technology audit brings fresh eyes, industry benchmarks, and an unbiased perspective to your IT operations. For enterprises — whether preparing for an IPO, responding to a board directive, or planning a major transformation — an independent audit provides the evidence base for confident decision-making.

Our Technology Audit Services

• IT Infrastructure Audit: Comprehensive assessment of your server, storage, network, and data centre infrastructure. We evaluate:

• Hardware lifecycle — age, warranty status, end-of-support risks

• Capacity utilisation — compute, memory, storage, network bandwidth

• Resilience posture — single points of failure, HA/DR capabilities, backup validation

• Configuration compliance — against CIS benchmarks, vendor best practices, and internal standards

• Infrastructure cost efficiency — identifying over-provisioned and under-utilised resources

• Our auditors deliver a detailed infrastructure health report with prioritised remediation recommendations.

• Application Portfolio Audit: Review your application landscape — custom-built, COTS, and SaaS. We assess:

• Business criticality and application dependency mapping

• Technical debt — outdated frameworks, unsupported versions, security vulnerabilities

• Integration complexity — point-to-point spaghetti vs. API-led connectivity

• Total cost of ownership — licence, hosting, support, and enhancement costs

• Rationalisation opportunities — retire, consolidate, or modernise

• Cybersecurity Audit: Assess your security posture against frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls. We evaluate:

• Governance — policies, risk management, board reporting

• Identity & access management — password policies, MFA coverage, privileged access

• Network security — firewall rules, segmentation, VPN, remote access

• Endpoint security — EDR deployment, patch management, encryption

• Incident response capability — plan, team, tools, drill history

• Third-party/vendor risk management

• For enterprises, we benchmark against RBI, SEBI, and requirements.

• Cloud Maturity Audit: Evaluate your cloud adoption against the AWS Well-Architected Framework or Azure Well-Architected Framework across:

• Operational excellence — monitoring, runbooks, incident management

• Security — IAM, encryption, network controls, logging

• Reliability — HA design, DR strategy, backup, RTO/RPO

• Performance efficiency — right-sizing, auto-scaling, CDN, caching

• Cost optimisation — commitment discounts, waste elimination

• For enterprises with multi-cloud environments, we provide a unified maturity scorecard across platforms.

• Compliance Readiness Audit: Pre-certification assessment against your target framework — ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or the country-specific regulations. We identify gaps before your external auditors find them, providing a clear remediation roadmap and estimated effort.

• Vendor & Contract Audit: Review your technology vendor relationships — cloud providers, software vendors, hardware suppliers, and service providers. We assess:

• Contract terms — pricing, SLAs, renewal terms, termination clauses

• Licence compliance — preventing true-up surprises during vendor audits

• Vendor risk — concentration risk, financial stability, dependency assessment

• Invoice validation — are you being charged correctly per contract?

Audit Methodology

1. Scoping: Define audit scope, objectives, and boundaries with your stakeholders. We agree on what’s in-scope, what’s out-of-scope, and what success looks like.
2. Information Gathering: Document review (policies, architecture diagrams, contracts), tool-based data collection (monitoring systems, CMDB, cloud consoles), and stakeholder interviews.
3. Assessment: Evaluate findings against frameworks, benchmarks, and best practices. Score maturity on defined scales. Quantify risks in financial and operational terms.
4. Reporting: Executive summary for leadership, detailed findings for technical teams, and a prioritised action plan with effort estimates and quick wins.
5. Remediation Support (Optional): We can support your team in addressing findings — providing technical implementation, project management, or validation that fixes are effective.

Audit Outcomes You Can Expect

Finding Category	Example	Typical Business Impact
Critical Risks	No backups validated in 18 months	Potential data loss, regulatory penalties
Cost Savings	45% of EC2 instances over-provisioned	Immediate 25–35% cloud cost reduction
Process Gaps	No change management for 60% of systems	Unplanned downtime, audit findings
Compliance Gaps	Missing 8 of 23 mandated controls	Regulatory risk, potential penalties
Optimisation	Database running on 5-year-old unsupported version	Performance degradation, security exposure

An independent audit is not about finding fault — it’s about finding opportunities to improve. Contact our audit team to schedule a scoping discussion.