Audit

• Technical investigation and interviews with key people
• Discovery of individual device configurations
• Mapping of network topology
• Service analysis, including the performance of servers and applications
• Examination of security policy and practice
• Creation of physical and logical network diagrams
• User traffic profiles and port traffic profiles
• Software version and licence compliance audit
• Preparation of comprehensive documentation

Design

• Consultancy to determine the business need
• High level design to establish an agreed concept
• Revision and refinement of high level designs, in consultation with the client
• Detailed design, encompassing specifications and configurations
• Testing and proof of concept, minimising the risk

Recommendation

• Specific recommendations for solutions to problems highlighted in the audit
• Strategic recommendations for the network, based on the identified needs of the organisation
• Product recommendations to assist purchasing decisions
• Policy recommendations for security and management
• Recommendations for software and application deployment & management
• Regulatory and licensing compliance recommendations
• Policy recommendations for maintaining the network in the future