Security & Business Continuity

Are you at risk?
Every organization is at risk for losing or damaging its assets. An asset could be anything from a piece of fine art on your wall to the intellectual property sitting on your servers. If you do not have proper security policies and auditing procedures in place, then you are at risk of losing your assets to theft, hackers, viruses or catastrophic events such as a flood or fire.

We provide comprehensive security services that will protect your valuable assets. If you do not have any policies in place, we will lead you through an intensive security assessment, design and implementation process. If you already have an existing security plan, we will put it through a rigorous test to ensure that it adequately protects your assets.

Preventative Maintenance
Let's start with the basics. Every organization should have in place, at the minimum, a way to protect its networks from intrusion. Not only is your information at risk, but if your network is vulnerable to attack, you could become a host site to a nasty virus or worm and be liable for the damage your network causes other organizations. If you already have a firewall and virus protection in place, we will ensure that it is configured properly. We will identify and build a back-up solution for your data in the event of a system failure.

  • Firewall Installation and Configuration
  • Virus Protection
  • Backup Solutions

Network Vulnerability Assessment
A network vulnerability assessment begins with an inventory of your core assets, such as servers, computers, printers, intellectual property, marketing databases, etc. We will set out to answer the following questions:

  • Which assets are fundamental to running your business?
  • How do you protect them from loss or damage?
  • How would you recover those assets in the event of a complete loss?

Penetration Testing
Once we have identified your core assets and your current methods of protecting them, we set out to validate the safety of those core assets. We will determine where your vulnerabilities exist and how they could be exploited. Penetration testing will illustrate how the controls on your network can be bypassed -- the evidence we gather and present is often shocking to our audience.

Policy Creation, Implementation and Auditing
A security policy is a formal statement that outlines systems in place to protect your core assets. For example, the acceptable use of equipment, access to systems from within and outside of the company and backup procedures. These policies are communicated to your entire company and become self sustaining, ensuring that your assets remain protected from vulnerabilities.

Once the policies are in place, it is crucial to test them on a regular basis to ensure that they provide the protection that you need. We will work with you to establish a plan for implementing and auditing your security policies.

Business Continuity
A solid business continuity plan is vital for the survival of your company in the event of a power outage, fire, flood or other disaster. Even so, many organizations do not have a plan, or they scrape by with a plan that is out of date or otherwise inadequate. We will lead you through a process to determine an implementation and auditing plan that will keep your business running in the face of a disaster.

Encryption/Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
If your company must send extremely sensitive data via email and it is necessary to protect this data from anyone who is not the intended audience, then we can implement an encryption solution for you. We encourage you to talk with us about how you can eliminate the fear of "eavesdropping" by implementing a combination of the following features:

  • Secure web sites (SSL)
  • Digital signatures
  • Encrypted email
  • Managed PKI Solutions