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The overall goal of a Business Continuity Assessment is
to minimize the interruption of critical business services
provided by the company's network systems, due to the costly
nature of these interruptions. Alpha NetSolutions
performs this service in a multi-phased approach to cover
all aspects of the network, in a controlled, logical
progression.
Network Assessment - The
first phase will be a Network Assessment, which includes the
documentation of the entire network, and recommendations on
changes required for general network stability &
reliability.
Security Assessment - The
second phase will be a review of the current state of
security. While the primary concern of most companies is
securing the network from external attack, it is essential
that internal security be reviewed and tightened as well
(since 80% of all attacks involve the compromise of someone
within the organization). This phase includes remediation of
highly critical issues that can be addressed in a simple and
straightforward way. Deliverables will include a detailed
Security Assessment Report, including recommendations.
Business Continuity Assessment
– During this phase, we will determine the criticality of
all components of the network, and interdependencies to
uncover critical paths of continuity. Resources will be
assigned to one of a number categories of criticality, and
we will recommend changes to your environment to provide the
determined availability of each resource on the network.
We review criticality from two perspectives: loss of access
to the system, and loss of data. We also consider 4
different disaster levels: simple hardware failure (minor
component loss, such as a network card or power supply),
system hardware failure (where the individual server is down
and will need more extensive recovery, such as a hard drive
failure), loss of your data center (without loss of other
facilities), and site loss.
After the recommended changes have been implemented, we
can move into the DIsaster Recovery Plan itself.
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