Safeguard

Your IT systems are vital to your companys future business, profits and existence. In order to achieve this, these assets should be carefully safeguarded. Traditionally, this would encompass server backups and tested routines on how to restore the required files, applications, database or even complete server. In addition some sort of firewall to prevent external threats as well as anti-virus.

However, as systems have grown and applications become more complex, some companies have not always moved as fast. How do you stand? Have you reviewed your infrastructure to confirm there are no single points of failure, what redundancy have you built into, for example, your storage, the network and the application to mention just a few.

Our consultants have helped many organisations safeguard their valuable data as well as assisting them with recovery processes and business continuity. Ad hoc or project based consultations are available in many key areas such as Active Directory and Exchange including anti-virus, spam and server hardening as well as perimeter security expertise in ISA Server.

Embrionic has developed a Recovery Suite to help you recover from failures in key areas of your Active Directory from site recovery to forest corruption and Exchange message through to complete cluster loss. Your business can utilise the customer ready recovery suite now.

Being able to bring online an exact copy of your key production systems in the event of a disaster flood, computer suite destruction, etc is appealing to many businesses. Embrionic can demonstrate this or even give you access to our customers to hear from them and how it has been adopted. We understand the importance of this type of requirement and continue to invest time and money to further enhance the offering.



Secure

Your business solutions require access from many different locations remote sites, extranets, etc with this comes the added problem of securing your environment. This includes everything from written security policies and procedures to server hardening to firewalls and much, much more. Threats come from many areas including:

  • Perimeter access how do you prevent unwanted access by hackers?

  • Server security the physical access as well as server lock down in terms of access rights

  • Unsolicited commercial email, SPAM this causes lost user time as they sift through their messages and delete them as well as bandwidth wastage, disk storage and increased backup / restore times

  • Viruses - transmitted through email messages, the desktop or server

Recommended practices in these areas together with unbiased technical appraisals of security products and practices are available.


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Back Up

When you deploy your new systems or applications have you tested in the lab all the failure points and documented how to overcome such issues. You need to ensure you continue to update these processes and regularly perform test restore drills.

Think, if key staff were available, for whatever, could someone else stand in for them at critical times? Would they be able to follow the processes or are they not documented? When was the last time you undertook a test drill?


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Continuity

We are now all seeing greater demands put on IT departments from the business leading to 24*7 system uptimes. Addressing business continuity for users is becoming top priority for many IT staff - this is driving IT departments to their limits as they try to develop / deploy / maintain a demanding ever increasing mobile workforce. How are you coping and how do you maintain your system uptime even during a major disaster? Have you considered the following:

  • Time needed to recover from a disaster or how long the business can be without a system, often referred to as Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

  • Age of the data you want the ability to restore in the event of a disaster the Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Any data created or modified inside the RPO will be either lost or must be recreated during a recovery

  • Actual time it takes recover the data, known Recovery Time Actual, this is usually identified during test drills. This is required to be identified as if this exceeds the RTO then alternative recovery methods will need to be investigated or the RTO increased


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