IT audit & compliance
IT audit and compliance services
Independent insight into your technology risk
London-based MPED helps UK and international organisations assess applications, cloud infrastructure, integrations, security controls, and compliance risks. Each engagement turns technical findings into a clear, prioritised plan for remediation and investment, helping teams strengthen resilience and make the next technology decision with confidence.
Typical fit: organisations preparing remediation, investment, compliance-readiness work, or a major technology decision.
Prioritised risk register
Remediation roadmap
Decision-ready output
Evidence, impact, priority, and ownership in one clear plan.Audit scope
What our IT audit and compliance services cover
We tailor the scope to the systems, risks, and decisions that matter to your organisation.
Application security and vulnerability assessment
Reviewing application exposure, security controls, common vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps.
Infrastructure and cloud security review
Assessing cloud, server, network, and database environments for security, resilience, and performance.
Penetration testing
Testing agreed systems and attack surfaces to identify exploitable weaknesses and remediation priorities.
Secure source code review
Examining code quality, security patterns, maintainability, and alignment with agreed engineering standards.
API and system integration audit
Checking interfaces, authentication, data exchange, failure handling, and operational visibility.
Compliance readiness review
Assessing relevant controls against frameworks such as GDPR, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS without replacing formal certification.
Technology cost and resilience review
Identifying avoidable spend, architectural constraints, and practical opportunities to improve resilience.
Our process
How we conduct IT audits
A focused process keeps the evidence, findings, and next actions clear from the start.
Scoping and evidence review
Agreeing objectives, systems in scope, stakeholders, evidence requirements, and decision criteria.
Technical assessment and validation
Reviewing configurations, code, integrations, controls, and agreed test scenarios.
Risk and compliance analysis
Connecting evidence to security gaps, operational risks, control weaknesses, and business impact.
Findings and remediation roadmap
Prioritising findings by severity, effort, dependencies, and the order in which teams should act.
Results workshop and implementation support
Walking stakeholders through the findings and supporting remediation where additional delivery help is useful.
Audit deliverables
What you receive from an MPED audit
Every engagement produces decision-ready outputs that technical and business stakeholders can use to plan remediation, investment, and follow-up work.
Executive summary
A concise view of the most important risks, business impact, and decisions requiring attention.
Prioritised risk register
Findings ranked by severity, likelihood, impact, and urgency so teams know where to begin.
Technical findings
Evidence, affected systems, observed weaknesses, and enough context for engineering teams to act.
Remediation roadmap
Practical next steps organised by priority, effort, dependencies, and expected risk reduction.
Stakeholder readout
A structured walkthrough of conclusions, open questions, and recommended ownership for follow-up.
Business value
Where our audits create value
Our audit work helps organisations improve technology decisions across security, cloud, integrations, and data governance.
Stronger application security
A clearer view of weaknesses in web systems and mobile applications, with practical remediation priorities.
Better-controlled cloud cost
Evidence for architectural and investment decisions where resilience, capacity, and avoidable spend intersect.
More dependable integrations
Improved visibility into authentication, data exchange, failure handling, and operational ownership across APIs.
Clearer data governance
Actionable improvements to controls, responsibilities, evidence, and policies around business-critical data.
Related delivery evidence
Practical experience behind our audit recommendations
Our audits are informed by hands-on delivery across live cloud, integration, and data environments. These projects show how MPED validates risk, resilience, and technical decisions in practice.
Cloud architecture
Azure cost optimisation and cloud modernisation
A staged Azure estate review reduced fixed run-rate by approximately 80% while production services, domains, and HTTPS remained online.
Read the Azure case studyHealthcare integration
Multi-site HL7 laboratory result integration
A duplicate-safe, retry-backed result workflow was commissioned in Birmingham and then rolled out to a second laboratory in London.
Read the laboratory case studySecure data integration
Company and director data API
A controlled Azure Functions layer delivered nine endpoints across Creditsafe and Companies House with tested authentication, retry, and redaction behaviour.
Read the API case studyWhy MPED
Independent findings grounded in delivery experience
We connect technical evidence to business impact and practical next actions, so the audit remains useful after the final workshop.
View client referencesDelivery-informed assessment
Experience across technology audits, architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, and complex system delivery.
Practical technical depth
Hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure, DevOps, integrations, API security, and maintainable software.
Scope shaped around the decision
The engagement is tailored to each organisation's systems, risks, evidence, and decision context.
A roadmap teams can use
Recommendations are prioritised and implementation support remains available where it is genuinely useful.
FAQ
Common questions before an IT audit starts
The exact engagement is shaped during scoping, but these answers explain the usual boundaries, evidence, and outputs.
What can an MPED IT audit cover?
The scope can include applications, source code, cloud infrastructure, APIs, system integrations, security controls, resilience, technology cost, and compliance readiness. The final scope is agreed around the systems and decisions that matter to your organisation.
How long does an IT audit take?
Timing depends on the number of systems, evidence availability, stakeholders, and the depth of testing required. We confirm the expected timetable after a focused scoping discussion rather than applying one duration to every engagement.
Do you need access to production systems?
Not always. We use the least access needed for the agreed scope and can often work through read-only access, configuration exports, documentation, interviews, and evidence provided by the client. Any active testing is agreed in advance.
What will we receive at the end of the audit?
Typical outputs include an executive summary, prioritised risk register, evidence-backed technical findings, remediation roadmap, and a stakeholder readout covering ownership and next actions.
Does a compliance readiness review provide certification?
No. MPED can assess controls and readiness against agreed frameworks, identify gaps, and support remediation, but this does not replace formal certification or regulated legal advice.
Can MPED help implement the recommendations?
Yes. After the findings are agreed, MPED can provide separate implementation support for cloud, integrations, software, security controls, and remediation work where that support is useful.