An engineer walks your office, opens the rack, tests the UPS, and hands you a written picture of everything you run and everything about to fail.
One to three days on site depending on the size of your environment. Read-only, zero downtime, nothing gets switched off. You get an asset register, a network diagram, risk-ranked findings, and a 12-month remediation and refresh roadmap. On-site audits cover Hyderabad; a remote documentation-based version is available for other metros.
- 1-3 daysEngineer on site
- 120+Checkpoints per audit
- ZeroDowntime during the audit
- Read-onlyAccess model, no changes made
Nine areas, physically inspected, not surveyed by questionnaire.
Server room & physical security
Rack condition, equipment placement, cooling and temperature, water and dust exposure, physical access control, CCTV coverage of the room, and who actually holds the keys. Server rooms in converted store rooms are common in Hyderabad offices and they fail in predictable ways.
Power & UPS health
UPS capacity against actual load, battery age and runtime under load rather than on the label, surge protection, earthing, raw-power bypass sockets that should not exist, and generator changeover behaviour where one is fitted. Power is the most common cause of hardware death we see.
Network topology & config
Switch and router inventory, firmware currency, firewall rule review, VLAN segmentation or the absence of it, single points of failure, default credentials still in place, and management interfaces reachable from the office LAN. We draw the network as it actually is, not as it was planned.
WiFi coverage & security
A walk-through signal survey of the working floor, dead zones and channel congestion, access point placement and age, guest network isolation, and whether the WiFi password on the whiteboard is also the one protecting the finance VLAN. Consumer-grade routers doing enterprise work get flagged.
Structured cabling condition
Patch panel labelling, cable certification where records exist, damaged or unterminated runs, ceiling and trunking condition, and the loose Cat5e spaghetti behind the rack that nobody wants to touch. Bad cabling causes intermittent faults that look like every other kind of problem.
Endpoint fleet age & patching
Every desktop and laptop inventoried with age, warranty status, operating system version and patch posture. Machines running out-of-support Windows versions are listed by name, because each one is both a security hole and a productivity complaint waiting to be raised.
Backup infrastructure & restore test
What is backed up, where the copies physically live, whether anything exists outside the building, and, with your permission, a supervised restore of a sample file set. A backup that has never been restored is a hope, not a control, and we test it rather than take its word.
Licensing inventory
Windows, Microsoft 365, server CALs, antivirus and line-of-business licences counted against what is actually installed and in use. Both directions matter: unlicensed software is legal exposure, and paid-for licences nobody uses are budget you can reclaim at the next renewal.
Documentation completeness
Network diagrams, admin credential management, vendor contracts and support entitlements, ISP account details, and whether anyone other than one specific person could run this environment. Key-person dependency is a finding, and in smaller Hyderabad businesses it is usually the biggest one.
Four documents you keep, whoever you hire next.
Asset register
Every server, switch, firewall, access point, printer, desktop and laptop we find, recorded with make, model, serial, age, warranty status and location.
- Physical walk-through plus network discovery, correlated
- Warranty and support status per device
- Out-of-support hardware and operating systems flagged by name
- A clean baseline for insurance, finance and future audits
Network diagram
A current, accurate diagram of your network as discovered on site: internet links, firewall, switches, VLANs, WiFi, servers and how they actually connect.
- Drawn from discovery and cable tracing, not old intentions
- Single points of failure marked on the diagram itself
- Editable source file handed over, not just a PDF
- The document every new IT hire wishes existed on day one
Risk-ranked findings register
Everything we find, rated by business impact rather than technical drama, so you can sequence and budget the fixes instead of receiving an alarming list.
- Each finding: what, where, why it matters, how to fix
- Rated critical, high, medium, low by impact on your business
- Quick wins separated from projects that need planning
- Plain-language summary for owners and directors up front
12-month remediation & refresh roadmap
A sequenced plan for the next twelve months: what to fix this month, what to schedule this quarter, and what to budget for at refresh time.
- Ordered by risk and dependency, not by vendor convenience
- Hardware refresh timing based on measured age, not guesswork
- Scoped so you can tender the work to anyone, including us
- A walkthrough session where we defend every line of it
Four reasons this audit is worth a few days of your office's time.
We inspect, we do not survey
The audit is done in your office with the rack open, not from a questionnaire your office manager fills in. Batteries get load tested, cables get traced, restore tests actually run. Findings are things we saw, not things we were told.
Read-only and zero downtime
We take no admin actions, change no configurations and power nothing off. Discovery is passive, tests are supervised and agreed in advance, and your team keeps working through all of it. In our on-site audits to date, production has never gone down.
Vendor-neutral findings
We do not walk in with a stack we are trying to sell. Findings name the gap and the class of fix, and the roadmap is written so you can tender the work to anyone. If you ask us to quote for remediation, that is a separate conversation you start.
Fixed scope, fixed days
You know before we start how many days we will be on site, what we will touch, and exactly which documents you get at the end. No open-ended discovery phases, no consultant day-rate creep, no surprise extras invoiced afterwards.
On-site coverage across Hyderabad, dispatched from Gachibowli.
HITEC City
Tech parks and multi-floor offices, usually scheduled within the week.
Gachibowli
Our home ground. Financial and tech offices around the HQ.
Madhapur
Startups and mid-size offices, image galleries of messy racks included.
Kondapur
Growing office corridor, frequent new-office and relocation audits.
Financial District
Nanakramguda and Gowlidoddy, compliance-driven audit demand.
Secunderabad
Established businesses with older estates, rich audit territory.
Begumpet
Corporate offices and professional firms along the airport road.
Wider Hyderabad
Uppal, LB Nagar, Kukatpally, Shamshabad and beyond, scheduled on request.
Other metros get a remote, documentation-based audit. We say so honestly.
The full audit on this page needs an engineer physically in your office: you cannot load test a UPS, trace a cable or survey WiFi coverage over a video call. For businesses in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi NCR and other metros we run a remote assessment instead: network discovery tooling, configuration reviews, licensing reconciliation and structured interviews with whoever runs your IT.
- Remote audits cover network config, endpoint posture, backup verification, licensing and documentation in full
- Physical areas (server room, power, cabling, WiFi survey) are assessed from photos, records and interviews, and the report marks them as remotely assessed rather than pretending otherwise
- Multi-site businesses headquartered in Hyderabad can combine an on-site HQ audit with remote branch assessments
- If a finding genuinely needs eyes on site, we tell you that in the report instead of guessing
Six moments an infrastructure audit earns its keep.
Office moves & expansions
Auditing before a move tells you what deserves to be moved, what should be retired at the old office, and what the new office needs that the old one never had. It is far cheaper to discover a dying switch before it is racked in the new premises.
New IT manager inheriting an estate
You have just taken over an environment documented mostly in your predecessor's head. An independent audit hands you an asset register, a real network diagram and a risk list in your first month, and every problem found is dated before your watch began.
Pre-funding due diligence
Investors and acquirers ask about asset registers, licensing compliance, backup arrangements and key-person risk. An independent audit report answers in writing what a founder's assurance cannot, and finding the gaps before their advisors do keeps the negotiation clean.
After an outage or a scare
A server died, a ransomware email got close, the UPS did not hold during a power cut. The incident you had is rarely the only weakness of its kind. A post-incident audit finds the siblings of the failure before they get their own turn.
Annual infrastructure hygiene
Estates drift: equipment ages, staff join and leave, undocumented changes accumulate. An annual audit keeps the asset register current, catches warranty and support expiries before they lapse, and turns refresh budgeting into a schedule instead of an argument.
AMC onboarding baseline
Before taking over support of an environment, whether with us or anyone else, an audit establishes the baseline: what exists, what condition it is in, and which problems predate the contract. It protects both sides and makes the first year of any AMC measurably smoother.
A typical unaudited SME environment vs a post-remediation baseline.
| Feature | Typical unaudited environment What we usually walk into | Post-remediation baseline 12-month roadmap delivered |
|---|---|---|
Asset inventory Does anyone know what the business actually owns and runs? | Partial spreadsheet, years stale | Discovered register, reviewed annually |
Network diagram | None, or drawn before the last two changes | Current diagram, updated on change |
UPS and power protection Tested runtime, not label runtime. | Batteries never load tested | Sized to load, tested on schedule |
Out-of-support systems | Unknown count, discovered during incidents | Zero, or known and scheduled for replacement |
Backup restore testing | Never restored, assumed working | Restore tested and documented |
Offsite backup copy | ||
WiFi security | One shared password, no guest isolation | Segmented, guest isolated, rotated |
Admin credentials | Shared, held by one person or an ex-vendor | Managed, documented, recoverable |
Licensing position | Unknown, mixed exposure and waste | Reconciled against actual usage |
Refresh planning | Reactive, replace on failure | Dated roadmap, budgeted in advance |
Six steps from scoping call to roadmap walkthrough.
- 1
Scoping
30-minute call
We establish size and shape: headcount, number of sites, servers on premises or in cloud, and what triggered the audit. You get a fixed number of on-site days, a checklist of what we will need from you, and a date. NDA signed before anything else if you want one, and most clients do.
- 2
On-site day(s)
1-3 days
An engineer works through the nine audit areas: server room, power, network, WiFi survey, cabling, endpoint fleet, backup and restore test, licensing, documentation. Read-only throughout, zero downtime, and about an hour total of your team's time for questions. Your office simply works around us.
- 3
Analysis
3-5 business days
Back at base, discovery data, photos, configurations and interview notes get correlated into findings. Each finding is verified against the evidence before it is written down; nothing goes in the report on impression alone. Anything critical found on site is flagged to you the same day, not held for the report.
- 4
Report delivery
Day 7-10
You receive the four deliverables: asset register, network diagram, risk-ranked findings register and the 12-month remediation and refresh roadmap. The executive summary is written for owners and directors; the technical sections are written for whoever will do the work.
- 5
Walkthrough session
60-90 minutes
We present the findings to your stakeholders, defend the ratings, answer the hard questions and adjust priorities against your real-world constraints. The roadmap that leaves this meeting is one your team has interrogated, not one they were handed.
- 6
Optional remediation
Separately scoped
The report is written so any competent provider can execute it. If you want us to carry the fixes, we quote that as a separate engagement against the roadmap, and audit clients who move onto our AMC get the findings folded into the first quarter's plan.
What Hyderabad businesses ask before booking an audit.
DPDP, ISO 27001 and your insurer all start with the same question: what do you actually run?
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 expects businesses that handle personal data to take reasonable security safeguards. ISO 27001 certification starts with an asset inventory and a risk assessment. Cyber insurance proposal forms ask about supported operating systems, backups and network segmentation. Investor due diligence asks for an asset register and key-person risk. None of these can be answered credibly from memory.
- The asset register and findings register map directly onto ISO 27001 readiness work, so nothing is done twice if you certify later
- Out-of-support systems, untested backups and shared admin credentials are exactly the findings that DPDP-era security expectations and insurers care about
- Due-diligence teams accept an independent audit report far more readily than a founder's verbal assurance
- If you need the deeper security layer, penetration testing and framework certification, that is our separate cybersecurity audit practice, linked below
Where to go from the audit.
Cybersecurity Audit & Compliance
The security layer above this audit: penetration testing, ISO 27001 and framework gap analysis, policy development and certification support.
Learn moreIT AMC Hyderabad
Turn the roadmap into a maintained reality: an annual maintenance contract with a 30-minute managed-client response SLA, patching, backup monitoring and scheduled reviews.
Learn moreNew Office IT Setup
Moving or opening a new office? Build the new environment to the post-remediation baseline from day one instead of importing the old problems.
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