During my time as a consultant I have worked to develop various digital health checks to assist companies with taking a tempurature test of their IT systems and strategy. The view of health checks is sometimes that they are just a tool to drum up more business – which to an extent is true, but the health checks I developed have been critical in assisting companies to identify risks, avoid costly mistakes and pinpoint the source of complaints.

I have developed comprehensive health checks for BMC Discovery, Kubernetes, NFS and PostgreSQL. I have also developed exception reporting on data pipelines for data quality assessment. The health checks I have developed have saved customers in the following areas:

• Identified security vulnerabilities around plaintext usernames and passwords storage
• Identified issues around NFS performance
• Identified opportunities for license reclaimation
• Identified usage patterns for insecure practices (i.e. logging in as root user)
• Identified various misconfigurations in non-alignment with best practices