Networking
Has your network been audited lately?
The Professional Etherworks Security Audit for the SMB, SOHO and Enterprise program helps companies identify high-risk network activity, including policy violations, misconfigurations, and active worms and viruses. The Etherworks Audit program provides organizations with detailed profiles of high-risk behaviors and recommendations of action to increase their internal network security posture and protect high-value corporate assets.
If your network is not running right, or you are experincing issues relating to your network, you should really have it looked over by a professional who is able to make sound decisions and provide good direction on altering the way your network functions. Poorly configured networks can reduce a companies productivity significantly, even worse poorly managed networks can open up major security flaws, for any size organisation this is not a good thing.
If you have said yes to anything stated above, then you need to read on see what Etherworks can offer you.
Managed data networks: Any company that needs its data network to cover multiple offices probably has some experience with private data networks.
There are various options available such as equipment maintenance, equipment purchase or lease/rental, as well as various levels of proactive and reactive support. Reactive support covers familiar activities such as responding to equipment failure with repairs and loan systems, and restoring system operation after a network outage. Proactive support covers activities such as backup management, scheduled maintenance, software upgrade and patch management, and network capacity planning.
Voice facility management: Customers can choose to purchase their own PABXs or IP telephony systems which can take a two different route to enjoy the
benefits of a hosted & non hosted environments. Etherworks will assume management responsibility for the day-to day operation of the customer’s system, this can be done via remote management or scheduled onsite visits. Until the last couple of years, site visits by field service staff were an every day event for nearly every aspect of the managed service. Affordable high performance broadband has enabled a new business model in voice facility management: your equipment can be hosted in either a private data centre or locally at the customers premises in a secure cabinet. By eliminating some of the travel burden, the service provider (Etherworks) should be able to pass on cost savings to customers, and since the voice systems are under the constant care of the provider’s engineers, systems become more reliable and outages can be fixed more quickly.
Hosted security: Security is another application that’s well-suited to the hosted model. Two security challenges in particular are stretching the capabilities of many companies: the flood of spam overloading email inboxes; and attacks (usually carried in spam emails) trying to exploit vulnerabilities in common
operating systems. Firewalls, spam filters and email protection need to be kept updated on a frequent basis – and here’s where hosted security comes into its own as a network application. The service provider has the staff and the skills to keep all these pieces of the security application up-todate, and by hosting the service on large scale application servers, it can spread the costs of security over a large number of customers, offering a cost-effective security solution for its customers.
Get in contact with Etherworks now and ask us to help you get the best out of your network.
