Your information is arguably the most valuable resource that you own.  No amount of money could replace the information if its lost, and possibly the lost of this information could result in serious financial loss.

Onsite strongly believes in proactive disaster recovery planning and implementation. We look closely at your current infrastructure, assess your risk, devise a plan and implement the strategy. Key aspects in this process include:

Vulnerability

 Our approach begins with analyzing your potential exposure. Do power surges frequently interrupt power supply? Is the proper virus protection in place? Is virus protection scanning each file and documents?  There needs to be security in place that protects your company’s valuable data from those wanting to steal it.  Firewalls are one way of allowing you to feel secure by offering one way communication to the internet for your employees while protecting you from the outside world.  You can even setup your companies firewall to allow access for your employees through the firewall by passing strict security protocols from the internet side in through your firewall to be able to work from home or a satellite office.

Back up Data

Is your data being backed up? Virtually all organizations utilize some form of backup. What is over looked however is how reliable this back up actually is.  There are different kinds of backups you can choose to protect your information.  These include tape backups, zip drives, and others.  There are also redundant systems that include mirroring, and RAID 0-5.  The most effective way is to use a combination of both.  By using a RAID system which combines multiple hard drives and simultaneously writes to all drives in sequence you can protect your data from hard drive failure through redundancy.  

Redundant Systems

 RAID is a redundant style of backup. It is the process of writing data across multiple hard drives in order to provide a redundant storage of your information. It can also increase the speed since it is writing to multiple hard drives at the same time.  This ensures business continuity and resource availability in the event of a systems failure. Redundant systems spread the risk across multiple devices and servers, ensuring resources are available in the event one of these devices fails.

Protect against power problems

 The most common problem with network availability fortunately is the most preventable. A thorough assessment of the current infrastructure will allow us to provide you with power solutions to avoid downtime and loss of data. Often inexpensive UPS systems are all that is required to protect the resources from this exposure.  UPS power supplies add a type of protection to your company by offering an alternate source of stability. Although this might not seem like a lot of time, most power outages last less than 5 minutes and unless your system is protected you could lose your data by having your server go down unexpectedly.  Not only do you have the chance of losing the data that is currently in use but sudden shutdown can cause data corruption on existing data or even drive failure.  By using as little protection as a 5 minute UPS you can protect your important information from more than 90% of today’s power problems.

What if your power outage lasts longer than the battery life you have available in your UPS?  Most of the UPS’s available today can be setup to notify your server of upcoming  shutdown and tell your server to shut itself down safely avoiding loss of data.

 Virus Protection

Computer viruses can wreak havoc on a network, placing your data at risk of corruption and deletion. Your risk can be greatly reduced with virus protection

• How current are your virus definitions?
• How often do you run full system scans? 

Having a virus program is only half of the battle.  The key to your protection is the virus definitions in your system.  The definitions are the list of virus’s that your virus program is capable of detecting on your system.  New virus’s come out all the time and unless your definitions are up to date it will not know how to detect the latest viruses and how to fix them.  By scheduling definition updates you can keep your virus definitions up to date giving you the maximum protection possible against today’s most common viruses.  

Once you have your virus definitions up to date they will not help you unless you enable your system to check your systems for viruses.  With today’s technology in virus protection using such programs as Norton AntiVirus, or a number of others, you can enable them to constantly monitor your system while you are using it to scan each file used actively on your system.  This way any virus’s can be caught and delt with before they can do too much damage.  

You can also run weekly or nightly scans on your system in the middle of the night by scheduling them.  As long as you leave your system turned on you never have to worry about them.

At Onsite, we know that security is an ongoing proactive effort. Our consultants will:

Develop effective strategies, polices and procedures

Analyze, design and implement enterprise security architecture

Develop appropriate security processes and procedures

Effectively manage security programs for clients, including monitoring, planning, project management, security patching.

Implement effective virus protection systems.