Network Monitoring

A complex set of servers and network equipment is required to ensure that business data flows seamlessly between employees, offices and customers. The success of an organization is tightly connected with the flow of data, and operational status of systems and services.

Our Monitoring Service to include:

• Monitor and alert for uptimes/downtimes or slow servers.
• Monitor bandwidth and network device usage.
• Monitor and alert for extreme system usage (CPU loads, free memory, free disk space, etc.).
• Monitor and alert for website availability and response times

For Infrastructure class servers we offer the ability to monitor

• Internet Protocols: Various sensor types for services used on the Internet (PING, PORT, FTP, DNS, RDP)
• Mail Servers: Sensors for mail servers (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and Round Trip)
• SQL Servers: Monitoring of SQL Servers (MySQL, MS-SQL and Oracle)
• File Servers: Monitoring of File Servers, NASs, etc.

Alerts can be sent to your email, MSN Instant Messaging accounts, or SMS/Pager-Cellphone. Escalation notifications can be sent to a wider audience after a specific timeframe without being fixed.

Detailed Daily, Weekly, or Monthly reports can be created and sent to you showing the health/status over time, allowing you to detect and possibly fix potential problems BEFORE they actually materialize.

Security Related Company Policy

A corporate information systems security policy exists to protect the company from threat. This security policy should be part of the organizations strategic management. Those working in the business environment must have clear and definitive instructions that assist them in securing information in this complex new technological environment. Just as it is unthinkable that millions of automobile drivers would be on the road without laws about the right of way, it is also unthinkable that millions of business people would operate systems without information security policies.

IS security policies exist to:

• Secure systems against loss of availability, integrity or confidentiality
• Prevent and detecting misuse, both against the relevant Acts and the company's internal policies
• Investigate and deal with any misuse based on the procedures laid out in the policy
• Limit and recover from damage

In business, a security policy is a document that states in writing how a company plans to protect the company's physical and information technology assets. A security policy is often considered to be a "living document", meaning that the document is never finished, but is continuously updated as technology and employee requirements change. A company's security policy may include an acceptable use policy, a description of how the company plans to educate its employees about protecting the company's assets, an explanation of how security measurements will be carried out and enforced, and a procedure for evaluating the effectiveness of the security policy to ensure that necessary corrections will be made.

Security Polices are a necessary evil in today's enterprise networks. Without a Security Policy, you also leave yourself open and vulnerable to a lot of political attacks. For instance, you have a web surfer in the company who feels it necessary to visit Porn related sites during working hours. If lets say someone who views this activity finds it offensive, you may have a court case on your hands if your paperwork is not in order. Some case law indicates that policy documents can act as a clear statement of management's intent, and thereby reduces management's potential liabilty. Policy statements can also serve as evidence of management's intention to safeguard proprietary information. This is an essential but neglected step in the legal assertion of trade secret protection. Information security policies can additionally serve as evidence of internal quality control processes.

Policies are management instructions indicating a predetermined course of action, or a way to handle a problem or situation. Policies are high-level statements that provide guidance to workers who must make present and future decisions. Policies are generalized requirements that must be written down and communicated to certain groups of people inside, and in some cases outside, the organization.