Network Security Design

Network security for small and medium size businesses is becoming increasingly complex, as new Internet threats appear daily or even hourly.

Small and medium size businesses networks face constant threats from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, zero-day attacks, and more. Achieving effective network security requires a solution that's designed to fit your needs today and can adapt to tomorrow's security threats.

After all, your network security is like the proverbial chain. It's only as strong as its weakest link.

Gathering information

We will begin by working with you to review your company's needs, plans, vulnerabilities, and mission-critical assets and applications such as your firewall, router, switches, or your VPN solution. Will test your network current speed versus your real needs; verify the potential of supporting future growth, and technologies such PoE (Power over Ethernet) QoS (Quality of Services) that are essential in today's networks.

Planning and designing

Once the review is complete, we will propose a network and security game plan customized for your company. This could vary from case to case.

If there is no network infrastructure in place, the plan will contain the proposed network Visio layout, logical and physical, an adequate IP addressing scheme, recommendations for the hardware equipment you need to purchase, and the implementation time line.

In our design, we always take into consideration your network futures growths to be achievable without any major changes to the core network design, all while respecting your budget.

On existing network infrastructure, hardware and/or software upgrades might be recommended. A time line and a gradual deployment plan of the new equipment will be presented as well as the Visio chart for the new layout. In some cases, equipment reprograming might be all you need for strengthening your network security and increase its performance.

Execution & Documenting

Once you have signed on the proposed action plan, we proceed to its execution. Customer satisfaction is what drives us on every project, nonetheless Safety and Quality are our core believes and they will always come first.

When implementation is done, we document your network, print your equipment configurations, explain the logic behind the design, as well as establishing base lines for your equipment.

Backup

Lastly we will draw a backup plan that you should rely on, in case of network outages, equipment failure or Internet attacks. Depending on you needs and budged this could be from simple measures such as procuring a UPS to avoid downtime caused by power outages, to complex scenarios with equipment redundancy.

Business Continuity

Minimizing the network downtime could be paramount for some companies while others could go just fine with days without a functional network, all depending on the nature of your business.

At Web Technologies we understand the concept of Business Continuity and we know that most of the work done on a production network should only take place at times when network outages have minimum or no impact on your business.