Doing an Audit
Strategically: You could use the higher level but extensive ACE Digital Culture Compass https://digitalculturecompass.org.uk (requires a login). The Digital Culture Compass was commissioned by Arts Council England and The National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of the UK Government’s Culture is Digital initiative.
However, the focus of this talk is to provide more tactical ideas but it is always worth doing an audit, even a basic one tabulated and easy to refer to:
- What do you have:
- Hardware
- Operating System(s)
- Software
- Anti-virus and other security tools
- Web presences
- Social media
- Databases
- Network(s)
- Till(s)
- What do you have in the ‘Cloud’
- How old?, Up to date?, Who manages?, Any known problems?
- Do you have backps and do they actually work?
- Do you have a digital disaster recovery plan?