Finding the Right Technology or Security Consultant

Where Do You Start?

Ask your colleagues, suppliers and peers whom they use. Ask your local Chamber of Commerce or local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) for their input.

What Are You Looking For?

Evidence of experience is essential. You're looking for someone who can help you now but can also be a long-term partner. Look for evidence of the ability to grow and develop as a company and support businesses bigger than yours.

Experience

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) engineer on staff. You should feel very good about our level of security expertise.

Services

We provide the following security services:

1. Antivirus

2. Hardening servers (ensuring all settings for a system are at their most secure)

3. Hardening client/desktop computers

4. Perimeter security

5. Intrusion detection




We provide security audits for the Windows platforms.

We provide 24 x 7 contractual on-site response for security support.

We can provide any level of support. Service level agreements are available that set out how quickly we will respond to problems and also the level of after-sales support.

We provide training. Our team members all have experience in academia and training.

Approach

We apply consistent patterns and practices in our operations. Click here to see a framework of our process.

We commit to a specific schedule and budget for a each project. We user a mix of our own staff or subcontractors.

Our fee structure: Depending on the project, it is possible to agree on a flat fee, an hourly or daily rate or an ongoing retainer. We are willing to break down their cost structure and allocate costs to different stages or activities. You want accurate, exact and precise information before any work is commissioned.

How do we approach documentation? We will supply you with a proposal for the work, including a budget, a timetable and a reasonable specification.

If our proposal is satisfactory, you will have a written contract specifying what is going to be done and by whom. We will include dates, deadlines, equipment, costs and so on. We always make sure that the details of the work are written down and agreed to in some form for all work over $1500.00.