Secure Archiving Assessment

Many firms have evaluated the likelihood of a serious compromise — or have even experienced a security breach and the associated financial losses — and determined that a secure archiving program is a requirement for successful business. Identifying your current backup, recovery, and archiving limitations and future requirements is the first step in planning and designing a Secure Archiving Infrastructure to address your business needs. Consonus can help you understand how your information change rates affect your data growth and will help you quantify the impact on your IT Infrastructure performance and costs.

With the Consonus Secure Archiving Assessment, you will gain specific capacity, operational, personnel, and procedural insights into your current environment along with Consonus recommendations on IT Infrastructure and Secure Archiving best practices which address and enable compliance with regulations including GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, and PCI/DSS.

The Consonus Secure Archiving Assessment enables you to tap into Consonus' 20 years' experience in optimizing Data Center and Virtualization environments, including our obsession with the financial and business analyses that rationalize IT operational and capital investments.

The Consonus Secure Archiving Assessment addresses:

Data allocation
Data aging, data retention, and residency requirements
Archiving requirements
Archiving object dependencies
Data access requirements
Guidelines for archiving policy
Storage recommendation
Achievable database reduction
Data archiving best practices

Benefits of the Consonus Secure Archiving Assessment

The Consonus Secure Archiving Assessment enables you to plan your next data archiving project steps and budget for them. Providing insight into your data structures and the untapped capacity and performance capabilities of your IT infrastructure, the Assessment explains how to improve your system performance, optimize your database storage requirements, address legal requirements through archiving and continuous data protection, and – most importantly – minimize your expenditures.

Secure Archiving Assessment

Objectives and Approach	Benefit
Develop project plan	Manage project, efficiently and effectively
Review Current Asset and Resource Utilization	Detect Inefficiencies
Scope impact on end users Identify dependencies on other applications	Delineate implementation plan
Define residence and retention times	Correlate archiving requirements to SLAs

Consonus then works with you to clearly define next steps and recommendations, which may include any or all of the following Consonus Managed Security Solutions:

Managed Assessment Security Services (MASS) - Annual security assessment programs composed of a baseline and ongoing weekly or quarterly security assessment updates and reports to identify vulnerabilities to customer networks.

Managed Event Collection and Correlation (MECC) – Security event aggregation and correlation from systems and networks across the enterprise.

Managed Intrusion Prevention Services (MIPS) - 24x7 service that identifies and stops network, server, and desktop intrusion threats in real time.

Managed Unified Threat Management (MUTM) - Managed Security Appliance that provides an enterprise-class firewall, IPSEC VPN and IPS. Includes all the core features of MIPS.

Managed Data Loss Prevention (MDLP) - Monitoring of business networks to detect leakage of regulatory and customer data or intellectual property.

Consonus' Managed Security Solutions enable customers to enhance their firewall protection with a comprehensive real-time warning system that proactively identifies and isolates real security attacks. These solutions help prevent costly downtime and loss of revenue with identification of potential security risks before they occur: