Network Security Audit

KJP Technologies can provide your business with network security audits and complete network assessments to ensure your infrastructure is running effeciently, is secure, and can be scaled to meet future demands. By reviewing your network requirements, and addressing the issues you have, we can improve the security, functionality and running costs to your organisation - delivering measurable benefits.

The Benefits of a Network Audit

A well planned LAN infrastructure, optimized for best performance, is likely to offer financial benefits as well as productivity gains. Historically it has often been difficult for organisations to maintain or improve the performance of their network whilst being stressed by commercial forces that can constrain best practice. Despite the technical abilities of network staff, time, budget and manpower have not always been readily available to ensure that the best technical solutions have always been chosen to meet a commercial need (eg adding users or services) or that ongoing support or network redesign has kept up with the new demand. This situation is not untypical in many LAN infrastructures where over time the network has grown piecemeal in response to the day to day demands of the users and the services that have to be delivered.

At KJP Technologies, we understand these network infrastructure issues businesses face and can offer an audit service that looks at both the physical infrastructure and the business requirement in terms of the services that need to be delivered and the reliability that underpins this service delivery. For businesses that are totally reliant on the network to provide deliverables such as customer facing services, manufacturing enabling services and communications, each minute of down time can be measured in cold, hard cash lost. EPC Services estimates that a re-designed network can save money with respect to administration costs, down time and service outages that may amount to as much as 10-15% of the original running costs plus whatever may be saved by the significantly improved down time.

KJP Technologies will audit the network devices comprising the physical network and LAN / WAN connectivity. We will also look at the revision levels of your network IOS and how they are managed. The most critical part of the audit, however, is to understand what the network is required to do. The audit looks at the applications supported by the network and their bandwidth requirements. It considers any down time history and apparent causes. The audit also takes a longer term view of anticipated requirements to get an understanding of future capacity parameters and scope of usage.

The audit deliverables are set out in a customer report that recommends what needs to be changed, the reasons why and the business benefits that follow. Recommendations would include any changes to connectivity and management; equipment/software changes; resilience and redundancy options; and support options.

How will my business benefit?

An audit tailored to your business
Identification of any traffic bottlenecks and their affects on performance
Actual bandwidth usage and the capacity of the network to cope with its expected workload
Identification of areas of risk with respect to single points of failure
Identification of scalability limitations
Identifying support issues with respect to configuration management, maintenance and ease of housekeeping
Recommendations for improvements and the associated cost savings

KJP Technologies will hold a pre-audit meeting to understand any concerns and issues the your may have with respect to the network and to discuss the anticipated scope of the audit. From this meeting KJP Technologies will prepare a proposal for the your business confirming our understanding of any issues you currently face and your future requirements. This document would set out the scope of the audit and associated deliverables and charges.