Network Audit & Documentation
A senior engineer reviews your network end-to-end — configurations, segmentation, security posture, drift, compliance gaps — and delivers a written report with prioritized findings and remediation paths. Independent of vendor relationships. Independent of your existing IT provider. Yours regardless of whether you continue with us afterwards. The starting point for any meaningful network engineering relationship.
Track Record
We only do networks. That is not a limitation — it is why the outcomes are different.
Years of network-only practice. Architecture, security, and operations — not IT generalism.
Sites delivered. Healthcare clinics, law offices, financial branches, multi-site operations.
Unplanned downtimes following network redesigns. Every implementation, with the precision it requires.
Senior engineer–led. No junior handoffs. No ticket queue. No escalation chain.
Career aggregate. The 20+ years and 300+ sites span the operator’s full network-only practice, including prior-employer engagements. Zero unplanned downtimes reflects post-redesign performance on engagements where the architecture standard described above was applied.
Why Network Audits Matter
Most mid-market networks have grown organically over years — a switch added here, a firewall replaced there, a contractor who set up the VPN and left. The result: nobody can answer "what does our network actually look like today?" with confidence. The first step to fixing anything is documenting what’s there. Independent network audits do that — without sales pressure to spec a redesign you may not need.
We don’t make money on the audit by recommending hardware. We make money on the audit by delivering a clear, accurate picture of your current network — and you decide what (if anything) to do next. Many audits result in "fix these 3 specific things, otherwise leave it alone." That’s a fine outcome.
The audit is performed by a senior, Cisco-certified, Fortinet-certified network engineer with 20+ years of practice — not a junior tech checking boxes. Findings include the kind of nuance only experience surfaces: not just "this is misconfigured" but "this misconfiguration commonly causes X failure mode in Y year."
Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper, Aruba, Meraki, SonicWall, WatchGuard — we audit what you have, regardless of vendor. Multi-vendor environments are common in mid-market businesses, and the audit shouldn’t require learning your stack from scratch.
Audit findings categorized against HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, NIST CSF, or other frameworks relevant to your business. The same finding ("MAC-based admission to clinical network") gets framed as both a network risk and a HIPAA Security Rule control gap. One audit, multiple compliance angles.
What the Audit Includes
The audit covers the network surface that matters: configuration, segmentation, security posture, performance, and operational discipline. Output is a written report, not a slide deck.
Firewall rule base, switching configs, wireless settings, VPN configurations, NAT rules, IPS/IDS posture. We pull current configs (with your permission and credentials) and review them line by line. Findings include drift from documented standards, dead rules, overpermissive policies, deprecated practices.
Network topology diagrammed (or re-diagrammed if existing diagrams are stale). VLAN structure, broadcast domain design, redundancy paths, single points of failure. The architecture diagram you should have had all along but never did.
Authentication mechanisms, identity provider integration, MFA enforcement, privileged-access controls, remote-access posture, certificate management, key rotation. The security architecture review most internal teams don’t have time to do thoroughly.
Interface utilization patterns, latency baselines, link saturation analysis, capacity headroom across the fleet. Identifies sites about to outgrow their current circuits and devices approaching utilization-based replacement.
Findings mapped to your relevant compliance frameworks: HIPAA Security Rule (technical safeguards), PCI-DSS (network requirements), SOC 2 (logical access, monitoring), NIST CSF, others. The report includes evidence-readiness assessment alongside technical findings.
Final deliverable: written report (typically 25–60 pages depending on environment), updated network diagrams, configuration export with annotations, prioritized remediation roadmap, executive summary. Distributable to your team, your CFO, your auditor, your future MSP.
Audit Triggers We Hear
Most audits are triggered by a specific business event — not just curiosity. These are the most common triggers we see.
National scope. Audit work is primarily remote — we pull configs, traffic data, and topology information remotely with your authorization. On-site presence isn’t typically required.
Our Approach
No mystery. No black box. Every step is documented, explained, and approved before execution.
A complete risk assessment of your current network. Configurations reviewed. Segmentation validated. Gaps documented. You get a clear picture — not a sales pitch.
Address critical risks first, then build toward a standardized architecture. Every change documented, tested, and deployed without disruption.
Ongoing monitoring, change management, and architectural review. The network does not just work today — it evolves with your operations.
Your Engineer
Not a team of rotating technicians. Not a ticket queue. One named senior engineer who knows your environment, your compliance requirements, and your business context — from assessment through ongoing operations.
The person who designs your network is the person who maintains it. No handoffs. No abstraction. No loss of context when something breaks at 2 a.m.
Background: Founder, ex-Meta. Past engagements include Cisco, Wells Fargo, Fannie Mae, and other Fortune 500 networks — the same caliber of engineering, now applied to mid-market organizations.
Ambio Edge Networks works with industry-leading networking and security vendors to deliver the infrastructure your operations depend on.
Best-Fit Audit Profiles
The audit is most valuable in environments where someone other than the team running the network needs to see the network’s real state.
Pre-acquisition: due diligence on the target’s network state to inform deal valuation. Post-acquisition: documented baseline of inherited environment so the integration team knows what they actually have. Both common in M&A activity.
SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI-DSS audit cycles starting in 60–90 days, internal teams need to know where gaps are before the auditor arrives. Pre-audit network review identifies findings while there’s still time to remediate, rather than learning about them in the auditor’s report.
Switching MSPs — outgoing MSP’s documentation is incomplete or unreliable, incoming MSP needs accurate baseline. Independent audit by a third party provides the truth that neither MSP can produce credibly.
Cyber insurance underwriters increasingly want network architecture evidence and security posture documentation as part of underwriting. Independent audit produces the artifacts underwriters expect, often resulting in better rates or coverage terms.
After a security incident or major outage, leadership wants confidence that the rest of the environment doesn’t have similar problems. Post-incident audit provides systematic review of the broader network state alongside the specific incident analysis.
Considering a major refresh (firewall replacement, SD-WAN migration, ZTNA implementation) but unsure of the current baseline. Audit produces the documentation needed to scope the modernization project accurately.
FAQ
SOC 2 (and HIPAA, PCI-DSS) audits are performed by certified auditors and result in a formal opinion or attestation. Our network audit is technical assessment work that produces engineering-quality documentation of your network’s state. The two complement each other: we do the technical groundwork that makes the formal compliance audit straightforward. We don’t produce SOC 2 reports; SOC 2 firms generally don’t produce engineering-quality network documentation.
Read-only access to network devices (configs and operational state), monitoring tools (if you have them), and topology documentation. We don’t need write access; we don’t make changes during the audit. For air-gapped or sensitive environments, we’ve worked with screen-share-only sessions and supervised access with an internal engineer present. We’ll work within your security constraints.
Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks from kickoff to written report. Single-site audits often complete in 1–2 weeks. Multi-site or complex environments (15+ sites, multiple vendors, heavy compliance scope) run 3–6 weeks. Most of the timeline is config review and report-writing, not data collection.
Yes. Audit results are bound by NDA from kickoff. We don’t share findings, anonymized or otherwise, with anyone outside your organization. The report is yours; we keep our copy in encrypted storage and destroy it on request after engagement closure.
Fixed-fee, scoped at engagement kickoff. Single-site audit: typically $3,500–$7,500. Multi-site audits: $7,500–$25,000 depending on site count and complexity. Larger environments quoted individually. The fee includes the report, network diagrams, and a debrief call to walk through findings with your team.
Common outcome: findings include both quick wins (fix in days) and larger projects (multi-week to multi-month remediation). The report prioritizes by risk and effort so your team can decide what to act on internally vs. what to outsource. Some clients keep the audit and remediate themselves; others engage us for follow-on project work. Both are fine outcomes.
Start the Network Audit
The audit kickoff defines scope, access, and reporting format up front. Findings get delivered as a written report with prioritized recommendations and updated network diagrams. Yours regardless of whether you engage us for follow-on remediation work.
Response from a senior engineer within 1 business day.
A direct conversation — no sales team, no runaround.
An honest assessment of whether we are the right fit.
Clear next steps if we are — no pressure if we are not.
