ICT consulting: know what you have before deciding what to change

We audit, design and review the security of your company's infrastructure. And we explain it in a report you can actually understand.

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Expensive decisions are made blind more often than you would think

The storage array gets replaced because the sales rep warns that support is ending. A bigger firewall is bought because the current one is struggling. The move to the cloud happens because it is what everyone is doing. Sometimes it is the right call. Other times a significant amount of money is spent solving a problem that was not the problem.

That is what a consultancy is for: looking at what is there, measuring it, and putting on the table what holds up, what does not, what risk each item carries and how much it costs to fix. Then the decision is made. But it is made with knowledge.

We work in environments where downtime is not just an inconvenience: professional firms, industrial property agencies and SMEs whose business relies on their information. We are certified partners of Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Oracle, NetApp, VMware, Huawei and NAKIVO, and that is exactly what lets us compare: we know the alternatives from the inside and we do not depend on placing a particular brand to justify the report.

Four moments when it is worth it

You need to invest and nobody knows where to start. You have a budget for this year and three open fronts. The first thing is to know which of the three could bring your business to a halt.

Something is failing and nobody knows why. The network slows down mid-morning, an application crashes on Mondays, backups take twice as long as a year ago. Symptoms everyone has learnt to live with.

Someone outside is asking for it. A large client, an audit, an insurer or a regulation asks you to show how things are set up and what protections you have.

The person running your systems changes. The person who knew everything leaves, or a new provider comes in. Before signing anything, it is worth having in writing what is there.

Systems audit

It is almost always where we start. We take a physical and logical inventory, draw the real map of the installation —which hardly ever matches the documented one—, and check what is out of support, what has known unpatched vulnerabilities, and how the equipment that supports day-to-day work is doing in terms of configuration, performance and capacity. The result is a document with the status of each item and a list prioritised by risk.

Physical and logical inventory
Installation mapping
Obsolescence and known bugs
Configuration, performance and capacity

Architecture design

Once you know what you have, you can design what you should have. We define the network architecture, the virtualisation platform and the data centre, the security and remote access scheme, and unified communications. The design includes the drawing, the sizing and the reasoning behind every decision, so that it can be discussed and so that, three years from now, someone understands why it was done that way.

Advanced networking
Virtualisation and data centre
Security and mobility
Unified communications

Selection and certification

Between design and purchase there is a step that is often skipped: checking that what you are about to buy really does what the brochure says. We translate the need into specific requirements, compare equipment and solutions from several manufacturers against those requirements, and put them through stress tests before they go into production. It is the step that avoids discovering the problem on go-live day.

Requirements definition
Comparison of equipment and solutions
Stress testing and validation

ICT security

We review the organisation's real exposure: vulnerability analysis of both published and internal systems, ethical hacking to see how far an attacker can get, and a risk analysis that ranks the findings by what they could really cost you. We also cover regulatory compliance and, if something has already happened, forensic analysis to find out what got in, how, and what it took.

Vulnerability analysis
Ethical hacking
Risk analysis
Regulations and compliance
Forensic analysis

ICT management and continuity

For organisations that do not have —or need— an IT director on staff. We support management with the strategic plan and the master plan, with how to organise the area, with rationalising recurring spend, and with the business continuity plan: what happens if tomorrow nobody can get into the office, how long it takes to recover and who does what in the meantime.

Strategic plan and master plan
Organisational plan
Cost rationalisation
Business continuity plans

Where do we start?

The usual first step is a conversation to understand what worries you, followed by a scoped audit that gives you a reliable picture of the situation. Everything else follows from there, and you keep the document even if you do not continue with us.

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