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Is your IT infrastructure efficient, reliable, and secure?

Network infrastructure inefficiencies and vulnerabilities are often caused by not regularly reviewing and updating your technology stack. Malicious actors will constantly be on the lookout for growing businesses who are reliant on infrastructure that has been built over time by different people, using different software, hardware and techniques. As a result of not ‘securing from the ground up’, organisations often find themselves trying to manage unwieldy, inefficient, and insecure infrastructure.

We often see teams battling to manage fixing infrastructure inefficiencies and vulnerabilities

Is that something you’re experiencing too? If so, we can help. Our Infrastructure Best Practice Assessment starts by gathering a complete understanding of your vision and functional requirements, with the end goal of creating a secure, reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure that works for you.

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Our infrastructure best practice assessment

How we work with you to help achieve your goals

If an attacker gets into my network, would I know, and would I be able to effectively respond?

Our Infrastructure Security Best Practice Assessment will answer critical questions like this. We will examine your infrastructures fundamental architecture and configuration to ensure that even if an attacker breaches your defences, the best practices are in place to enable you to detect and rapidly contain an incident.

We will also review the key elements of your wider cyber security; your people, your processes, and your technologies against industry, vendor, and our own recommended best practices, always ensuring a true focus on your threats on your threats and not academic assessment criteria. We will highlight any security or configuration oversights, unaddressed vulnerabilities, and day-to-day operational improvements that could be made.

We move quickly without sales people

In cybersecurity we know speed matters. Unlike most other providers, your main point of contact will be the technical expert leading your engagement. This means no delays while a sales person checks technical details or the delivery calendar for when your project can begin.

We outline where there are gaps in your security posture, and help you fix them

Your report and roadmap will explain where you are today and detail the changes needed to achieve IT security best practice. Unlike some other providers we will not provide a lengthy and complex report with no clear place to start. Instead, we offer all clients a thorough debrief session where we can discuss in partnership the issues we have identified and how to effectively combat them in your environment. For more complex mitigations our industry-leading consultants will work closely with your team to either mentor them through the mitigation process or provide swift remediation steps. Our engagement is not focused on simply delivering a unactionable report; it’s focused on taking you on a journey to quickly put you on a firm operational and security footing.

 

Service Benefits

  • Ensure a secure and stable IT environment - The strength of your infrastructure is far greater than the sum of its individual components. We don't just look at individual devices, we look at how they are working together, helping to identify any current or potential future operational challenges before the can disrupt your business.
  • A way to develop your teams skills - Constructively reviewing project work completed by an in-house team is a proven tool to improve performance, capability, and morale. Your in-house teams have probably done a brilliant job, but a fresh pair of eyes from industry leading experts in this technology will often spot an oversight, bring in fresh ideas, or suggest a real-world efficiency win, turning a good result into a great one.
  • Maximise the return on your investment - IT is expensive, but that means efficiency savings can also be significant. We analyse your existing devices, software, and licensing to ensure your configurations and architecture are fully optimised and there is no wastage regarding unused or over engineered licences or data usage.
  • Ensure best practices are being maintained - Cyber security will never stand still. We can return with regular assessments to ensure the best practices we worked closely together to achieve are progressing, not regressing. This proactive approach provides ongoing assurance to both your leadership team and clients that you are staying ahead of emerging threats and operational challenges, ensuring your security posture and infrastructure will remain robust.
  • Access technical expertise when you need it - At Morgan Cyber, your main contact will be the technical expert leading our relationship, not an account manager. We believe this is the best way to provide great client service and accelerate your project. Unlike some other providers, we do not charge you for the administrative time spent on a project.

How It Works

Just as a skilled tailor crafts each garment to perfectly suit their clients requirements and preferences, our approach to Infrastructure Security Best Practice Assessments is similarly bespoke. We understand that you will have unique needs and objectives, and will never force you into a mould that doesn’t align. Instead, we meticulously tailor each engagement to cater specifically to your situation and budget.

  • Stage 1 - Understand - Our team will meet with yours on a free scoping call to give us the best possible understanding of your existing infrastructure and why you have reached out to us. We really want to know why this project is important to you, areas where your team excels (and where we can help), and what your timescales and budgets are.
  • Stage 2 - Planning - We take information and intelligence gathered in stage 1 and work with your wider team to tailor a plan that addresses key priorities, other projects, workloads, and their experiences of working with your existing infrastructure from a security, reliability, and usability perspective. We will be looking to enhance performance in all three areas.
  • Stage 3 - Best Practice Assessment delivery - We won’t assess your infrastructure against generic, off the shelf theoretical criteria. Instead, our team of experienced infrastructure security engineers we will execute the agreed engagement against industry specific threats your business faces and ensure our guidance addresses real-world risks, while avoiding unnecessary complexity that could hinder your operations.
  • Stage 4 - Reporting, reviewing & improving - Our Infrastructure Best Practice report will be extremely detailed and thoroughly explain the gaps we discovered, and the severity of the risks they pose. Once you have read the report, the technical expert leading your engagement will host a review call to discuss the findings collaboratively with your internal stakeholders. The objective of this call is to put in place a clear improvement path to close those gaps, prioritising the remediation of vulnerabilities posing the biggest threats.
  • Stage 5 Improving & mentoring - Our engagements come with optional mentoring time following the engagement that can be used to help address the issues on your roadmap. We can also support with larger mitigation projects where required.