Overview

Organisational network infrastructures have evolved based on often unplanned and reactive approaches and actions.  In our experience, this results in security considerations to be an afterthought at best, whereas it often means that organisations’ substantial investment in network, communication and security technologies is either under-utilised or indeed undermined and compromised.

Our Secure Network Architecture design and implementation services are structured to assist organisations adopt a proactive stance in relation to their network’s and technology infrastructure’s security and in this way achieve maximum possible control over the risks with which they are faced.

Our approach is based on established methodologies whereby we identify, analyse and prioritise business and technology requirements which are then used to guide the design choices and philosophies that are adopted.  This has been proven to result in a structured method for identifying and assessing alternatives based on cost-benefit and hard facts on the basis of which management is then able to decide.

Key Benefits

•  Better performance, faster connections

•  Reduced connectivity and telecommunication expenses

•  Reduced administration and downtime costs through network resilience

•  Reduced product procurement and management costs through standardisation

•  Secure and controlled connectivity with remote locations

•  Reduced risk of becoming an easy target

•  Provision of controlled remote access to internal systems, to mobile/remote business users and 3rd party support personnel

•  Capability to view email from anywhere via normal Internet

•  Protect the internal environment and reduce the impact of unauthorised access / attacks and other malicious activity

•  Identify and manage residual access risks (avoid, contain, mitigate, transfer)

•  Ensure firewall and other security/network components reflect business needs and management’s assumptions

•  Protect availability of key systems and information and strengthen the resilience of the network

•  Reduce risks to data integrity and confidentiality

•  Control computer activity (legitimate and unauthorised users)

•  Minimise unwanted emails (spam) and viruses and control email content

•  Manage infrastructure more effectively and pinpoint problems swiftly

•  Ensure that critical resources have up-to-date patches and are able to defend against known vulnerabilities in order to reduce the possibility of denial-of-service attacks, site outages and performance problems.

•  Enable rapid deployment of a secure baseline configuration, faster recovery from a security incident, and easier auditing

•  Prevent viruses and Trojans from spreading to multiple systems.

•  Reduce the risks associated with human error or bad intent