Vulnerability Assessment
Identify Risk in Your IT Environment
The Consonus Vulnerability Assessment identifies possible weaknesses within your technical and physical operating environments that may lead to the unavailability of critical infrastructure, providing a high-level review of your IT availability practices and procedures. Assessment focuses on two major principles that build the foundation for a highly available operating environment:
- Availability — Maintaining availability of the production environment at the primary facility
- Recoverability — Restoring availability of the production environment at the recovery facility
A structured process, the analysis examines specific areas (Best Practices, components, and attributes) within the data center environment.
A Building Block Approach
Consonus views continuous availability using a building block approach that requires a solid foundation of technical infrastructure and support. This paradigm is based on best practices designed to protect the primary production environment and validate the recovery capabilities.
| Best Practice Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Information Security Management | Physical and IT security controls and practices |
| Data Protection and Management | Data backup, restoration, and protection capabilities |
| Network Infrastructure | Network infrastructure components |
| Data Center Environment | Data center environmental and physical components |
The end result is a high-level roadmap that guides prioritization and remediation of the identified shortfalls, potential exposures, and noted vulnerabilities.
A Framework for Disaster Recovery
The Vulnerability Assessment delivers relevant results intended to achieve stated objectives; the focus on improvements leads to a detailed, more resilient disaster recovery and business continuity strategy. It is intended to be an actionable assessment tool for IT management, either as due diligence as part of disaster recovery planning or as a key element of a corporate-wide business continuity planning project.
