Network Assessment
Networks can grow or change exponentially due to mergers and acquisitions, services expansion, geographic expansion, new technology introduction or divestitures. Many times these modifications are made to meet the business demand and do not provide adequate time to fully develop a life cycle strategy for optimized solution deployment. Over time this can lead to non-standard, multi-vendor environments that are poorly designed, difficult to manage and maintain, and result in unnecessary costs. Worse, this complex state can lead to suboptimal delivery of application services. ZMtech Consulting provides network assessment services to analyze the network against best practices. Typical outputs include recommendations for enhancing scalability, manageability, availability and performance.
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Recognize your organization’s current digital footprint.
Document your electronic footprint on Internet, both the visible spectrum as well as the IRC/ICQ message channels, and other groups
Assess vulnerabilities of employees, partners, and other stakeholders
Analyze and evaluate what you learned from assessing the vulnerabilities of employees, partners, and other stakeholders, and then identify potential problems.
Assess the vulnerabilities of networks, applications, other IT resources.
Document and analyze your entire IT infrastructure to find the weaknesses and potential issues.
Conduct comprehensive scanning of ports, vectors, protocols
Conduct a comprehensive scan of all ports on your network to identify the IT counterpart of open windows and unlocked doors. The most common malicious network scans search for vulnerabilities in a standard range of 300 ports on a network where the most common vulnerabilities are found. (However, you may have over 60,000 ports on your network that can be suspect.)
Review wireless nets, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, rogue devices
Wireless nets, rogue devices, and removable media all present vulnerabilities. If a hacker leaves a USB flash drive containing malicious code in your lobby, someone will likely pick it up and innocently pop it into a system on the network to see what’s on it. That’s all it takes to compromise your network. Check out these blog posts on Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and Bluetooth vulnerabilities, and you’ll see what we mean.
Probe your internal network weaknesses.
Assess interaction with internal networks. Unfortunately, internal people do malicious things too.
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A New Model for a New Dynamic
Before:
Identify what’s on the extended network to implement policies and controls to defend it
During
Detect and block malware continuously
After
Reduce the impact of an attack by identifying point of entry, determining the scope, containing the threat, eliminating the risk of reinfection, and remediating