Last night we had a great turnout at the February 2012 DFW IT Professionals User Group meeting with awesome audience participation and input.

A key contributor to acquisition risk is overlooking information technology infrastructure and security issues, which often leads to unanticipated IT spend and possible regulatory compliance issues. According to Crilly's Due Diligence Handbook, Due Diligence is "a process whereby an individual, or an organization, seeks sufficient information about a business entity to reach an informed judgment as to its value for a specific purpose."

Yesterday Paranet Solutions, a Barracuda Diamond Level Partner, and Barracuda Networks came together for a delicious steak lunch and lot of juicy product information. Barracuda management talked about the Message Archiver, Backup Service, and Web Filter products. 

Template Structure

IT due diligence structure begins with broad re-examination of inventories, standards and technical implementations. It involves an evaluation of all applications and databases which should include critical business support functions. It will include an assessment of IT service delivery and functions as well and will involve a review of all IT organizational structures that support the identification of the most critical business processes for your company.

When seeking to streamline processes and support your employees in ease of use desk and computer-related tasks-- it can be difficult to know how to choose between support services such as desktop managed services or IT help desk support. In the same way that having the right tool helps improve the performance of a task, the same is true for having the right support services for employees using networked systems in your company.

When companies are hit by disasters, certainly their physical facilities can be damaged and sustain huge physical losses. Such data losses can even, in some cases, lead to additional law suits and litigation fees. In this eBook we will center on the IT or data piece of implementing a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan.

HIPAA Security compliance is of vital importance in order to prove that you are concerned with data security. HIPAA standards have been introduced to protect digital and computerized patient information. Doing HIPAA compliance assessment involves several steps.

In today's competitive market many IT specialists are moving toward the unification of business processes and IT due diligence. In the same way that an accountant needs a seasons-end check list for proper review of end-of-year balances, so does the IT over-site need to be using an IT Due Dilgence check list to ensure no regulation, software compliance, infrastructure or security issues have been missed. When merging this process with other business operations, you can ease the complexity of the process.