Gain a deeper understanding of your environment and better leverage it with our IT assessments. Your provider should be able to come up with a recommended plan of assessments specific to your environment. Not all types of assessments are necessary for every industry. Your MSP should have the depth of experience required to perform different types of assessments focused on the overall health of the IT ecosystem, network, virtualization, and security. Your provider should also be well-schooled in the latest compliance regulations to enable clients to meet new requirements as they emerge.
The first step in developing a strategy to safeguard the systems of a business is to analyze the current situation; to do this, we must reach a joint understanding of the “as is” scenario. Management expectations, technologies in use, and other requirements will vary depending on the industry.
We review your business initiatives and goals and help determine the best technology strategy to meet your objectives.
We determine your “as is” IT environment and begin the process of identifying those changes that must be made to create a best practices environment.
Vector IT Consulting’s experts bring a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding the specific regulations tied to regulated vertical industries such as financial services and healthcare. With a foundation of these requirements and other vertical industry best practices, we spend time with your management team reviewing specific concerns you may have, above and beyond the basic industry guidelines.
Our IT Network Assessment provides a complete view of the entire IT environment including all devices that are connected to the network (servers, switches, firewalls, routers, printers, end user devices, etc.). The analysis generates profiles of each device on the network including the hardware components, O/S and patch levels, applications and associated licenses, current antivirus solutions, signature update status, and warranty/support status. In addition, the base analysis identifies open ports that should be closed.
Due to changing needs, your business may have outgrown its wireless infrastructure. In today’s working environment, your employees are carrying multiple devices and may be spending considerable time away from their desks. You need a robust wireless infrastructure to provide strong WiFi throughout your building or campus for staff and customers. A wireless assessment from Vector IT Consulting provides deep insights into the most optimal means to improve your wireless network, customized for your specific environment.
For companies that have deployed large numbers of virtual servers, or who want to prepare for virtualization projects, this assessment provides the required foundation for planning purposes. For current virtual machines (VMs), the assessment identifies all current configurations as well as VM “sprawl,” which can be created by the constant addition of new VMs without elimination of unused VMs. This assessment provides an accurate view of the workload support required for new or expanded virtual environments.
All companies are concerned about the state of their cybersecurity resilience. And we know that while it is necessary, it is certainly not sufficient to have advanced firewall and endpoint protection in place. We must identify malware as it moves around within your internal network. And, we must identify end user behavior that significantly increases target surface area (vulnerability). The Cybersecurity Assessment places a sniffer in your network for a week to capture traffic moving within your internal network. This data is then analyzed in our Cybersecurity Lab to identify both malicious code moving within your network as well as user actions that serve to increase your risk of attack.
Once issues from the Base Assessment and Cybersecurity Assessment have been addressed, penetration testing can validate assumptions that all data is secure and the network cannot be hacked. Whereas the Base Assessment and Cybersecurity Assessment are analyzing your network and providing resulting to-do lists of areas to address, penetration testing is the act of purposely trying to break into the network or access data. A successful round of internal and external penetration testing will tell you that your network is truly secure. The results of a test penetration will expose any external vulnerabilities and their associated impact, including internet, IP addresses, firewalls, email servers, and web servers.
Customized for the healthcare industry, as an extension of the Base Assessment, Vector IT Consulting can provide an assessment of your HIPAA compliance against HIPAA security rules. Combining the data collected in the Base Assessment, plus on-site physical checks of certain practices and policies, we can provide a HIPAA compliance review report.
The Vector IT Consulting HIPAA audit includes :