As Cisco Silver partners, DSS have achieved specialisation in the area of Security. This specialisation from Cisco recognises the knowledge and expertise that DSS have in selling, designing, installing, and supporting a comprehensive network security solution. Network security technologies enable new business applications by reducing risk and providing a foundation for expanding your business with intranet, extranet, and electronic commerce applications, as well as helping to protect sensitive data and corporate resources from intrusion. The specialisation focuses on the entire Cisco suite of security products.
In ascertaining whether your company's security processes and technologies are protecting your valuable business assets, DSS recommend conducting a comprehensive network security audit. Through discovery, data collection and analysis, our team of Cisco certified security experts have the advantage of best of breed tools and key partners to provide the best approach in minimising the risk of vulnerabilities, lost data and system downtime across the network infrastructure.
Through this comprehensive network security audit we will address the following:
- What are your key systems and applications and how are they rated?
- What defenses are in place to guard against unauthorized access to your systems and how strong are these?
- What are the best practices and how do you compare against companies of similar size?
These and other areas of your data security and infrastructure environment are addressed in a detailed report that is submitted and key recommendations are presented.
Specifically, the following steps are undertaken in carrying out a security assessment;
Benefits of a Security Audit:
- Target your organisations IT budget and maximize ROI
- Reduce operating costs by:
- Leveraging existing technology more efficiently
- Improve processes and minimise downtime
- Centralised Management – enables IT staff to switch from a reactive stance to a proactive stance
- Limit Legal liability by controlling the flow of Information to and from your organisation
- Demonstrate compliance with established Standards
- Demonstrate a duty of care over the organisations Information assets