Internal Audit Processes and Procedures

This question asks if you regularly check your own security practices to ensure they're working as intended. It's like having someone periodically inspect your work to catch problems before they become disasters - except you're doing the inspection yourself, following a documented process.

Internal audits are your early warning system for security gaps before they become breaches or compliance failures. They show enterprise clients you're proactive about security, not just reactive. Without documented audit processes, you can't prove you're maintaining security standards between external audits, making it harder to win enterprise deals and potentially missing critical vulnerabilities that could destroy customer trust.

The biggest mistake is conducting informal reviews without documentation - if it's not written down, it didn't happen for compliance purposes. Companies also often create audit procedures but never actually follow them, which is worse than having no procedures at all when discovered during due diligence.