Why You Should Audit Your Tech and Team this Fall

Here’s what we find when we audit a small business's tech, team, and tools

Most businesses are getting buried in tools, tech, and software subscriptions. Everyone’s got something for word processing, something for tickets, something for backups. Add in two or three vendors with overlapping features, and suddenly no one can tell what’s actually protecting the business and what’s just burning cash.

I’ve seen it too often: a business thinks it’s “covered” because it bought antivirus software in 2012. But when we run a threat assessment, we find stale backups, broken alerts, and a lot of checkbox security. IT subscriptions aren’t magic. If you don’t audit them regularly, they become expensive overhead and leave you exposed to a lot of risk.

What actually happens when you audit your tech stack?

1. You catch the gaps between systems.
   When was the last time you got an alert for an update failure? If your antivirus isn’t integrated with alerting or ticketing, who’s watching for threats? Disconnected tools leave dangerous gaps that no one notices until there’s a breach.
2. You realize you’re paying for things twice.
   We’ve worked with clients who were paying for backup three different ways—once through a legacy product, again in Microsoft 365, and again via a “disaster recovery” add-on. No one had taken the time to align costs with outcomes. Once we did, they slashed redundant spend and tightened recovery protocols.
3. You uncover tools no one owns.
   Shadow IT isn’t just users buying Dropbox or ChatGPT. It’s also tools that were brought in during a fire drill and never revisited. If no one’s assigned to check if those backups are still running or if those phishing campaigns are still delivering, those tools are a liability, not protection.
4. You force clarity on who’s accountable.
   An internal IT manager might think the MSP owns patching. The MSP might assume the in-house team is watching email threats. Without a tool audit, shared responsibility becomes no responsibility. At Solve IT, we work through these gray zones explicitly. Everyone knows their role. It’s written down. It’s tested.
5. You stop confusing uptime with safety.
   Plenty of tools monitor server uptime. Fewer can confirm whether data is encrypted, compliance is tracked, or devices are properly segmented. When we audit a tool stack, we’re looking for outcomes, not just activity. That’s a big difference. Alerts are great, so is actual security that helps you sleep more easily.

Bottom Line: If you haven't audited your tools in the last six months, or ever, you're probably exposed.

At Solve IT, we audit our own stack quarterly. Our clients get the same treatment. That’s how we keep them off the front page of the news. That’s also why we offer a free threat assessment to show you exactly what’s working, what’s wasting money, and what’s putting your business at risk.

Schedule yours today.
It’s fast, non-intrusive, and you’ll walk away with a clear, actionable report.

Let’s make your tools work for you, not against you.