Consultancy

Of all the services Cyber Sec offer, perhaps the most important and far-reaching is IT consulting. Consulting requires listening and observing, and then applying our knowledge and experience to a specific business problem or strategy.

Audits, reviews and reports

Before initiating a plan, management often needs to understand the current state of the system, and this begins with an audit. The system under review can be as extensive as the entire IT infrastructure or as limited as third-party supplier SLAs or data backup procedures.

Typical audits might include the following:

• Infrastructure (servers, routers, gateways, firewalls, networks)
• Mobile platforms (hardware, collaboration tools, email)
• Third party supplier and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Information Security (firewalls, perimeter analysis, security policy)
• Software applications and databases (migration analysis)
• Backup and disaster recovery policy and procedures

Cyber Sec audits can discover gaps in performance or security at many levels, and lead to concrete measures that can be taken to close the gaps. An audit also provides a performance baseline against which future improvements can be measured.

Strategic Planning

Much of this new technology is disruptive and requires new ways of thinking. If it hasn’t done so already, it can bring new efficiencies into your business processes; it can bring your employees together in a collaborative social network; it can streamline communication and collaboration with your partners, clients, and suppliers; it can help bring products to market faster and extend your market reach, and it can better protect your data.

The Cyber Sec team can bring you up-to-date on the latest developments in technology and guide you in making informed decisions based on our deep knowledge and hands-on experience with the best solutions.

Cyber Sec can help you structure your IT investment strategy to align with your strategic business objectives.

Infrastructure design and implementation

A strategic plan may include replacing ageing servers, setting up a new data centre or implementing a virtualisation plan.

Cyber Sec specialists can assist you in both the design of your infrastructure and in the selection and procurement of the best hardware and software for your specific application. Cyber Sec can also arrange a competitive equipment lease, helping you conserve capital.

Backup and disaster recovery

Price Waterhouse Coopers estimate that 43% of companies that experience a major data loss simply do not recover. But even if the business doesn’t fail outright, it may experience business disruption, stiff fines for non-compliance, negative publicity and the loss of customer confidence. This is a heavy price to pay for failing to have an effective backup and disaster recovery system in place.

A key management objective of any business must be the ability to quickly recover from such a crisis. Fortunately, recent technologies such as virtualisation and backup automation make it much easier to set up a disaster recovery system that is both reliable and cost-effective.

For businesses that are still using manual disaster recovery systems, Cyber Sec can help your IT team transition to a more reliable and scalable system that will require less hardware, fewer personnel and less training. An automated system within a virtualised server environment can fully recover in a fraction of the time it would take a manual system.

After reviewing your infrastructure, Cyber Sec consultants will recommend a data recovery solution that will make the most of the hardware and software you have in place and will help your team choose the replication, failover and failback options that will best suit your business.

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Cyber Sec have the experienced staff and the tools to help you manage this ever-expanding dependence on technology at a variety of service levels.