Strategic Consulting & Auditing

Business is under pressure to economise and streamline—and at the same time bring innovation to the market. Knowing how to improve your business processes and knowing which technologies are the best for your company is critical.

Technology investments can’t succeed if they aren’t aligned with business goals. And to realise their full potential, technology investments require professional management and execution. Strategic Consultation and auditing from Newpath IT is designed to find better ways to operate your business and ensure the successful implementation of new technologies and business processes, whilst protecting the business from threat of security breach or disaster, thus ensuring business continuity.

Strategic consulting and auditing services include:

Strategic Technology Planning: bridges the gap between your existing technology and your business vision. We’ll help you create a framework for making critical technology and business process decisions and help you build a roadmap to get from here to there.

Telecommunications Auditing: Provides telecommunications consultancy services in the areas of data, Internet and voice. The specific services that are provided include such services as:

• Integrated Data, Internet and Voice solutions
• Data, Internet and Voice systems audits
• Bill Analysis and recommendations
• Wide Area Network Design and implementations
• Internet-based solutions such as VPNs, and Data Centre hosted solutions
• Telecommunications road maps
• Telecommunications Strategic Planning
• Network convergence consulting (i.e. Voice Over IP)

Firewall Installation and Configuration: You have a network full of valuable, confidential business information. Without a firewall, intruders may enter your network at will, data can be compromised, and all without your knowledge. Protect your network with a firewall designed to keep your business safe without strangling your communications. Newpath IT information security consultants will design, install and maintain the best firewall solution for your business and give you all the information you need to monitor its performance over time, with the supply of both technical and management reports.

Virus Protection: Viruses can create costly, time-consuming havoc for those businesses that are caught unaware. The loss of critical data and precious time to a virus outbreak is a concerning prospect; yet worrying about your systems does nothing to protect them. With Newpath IT, you can rest easy. Our consultants can inoculate your entire IT environment with the latest virus protection software and policies, and ensure that your virus protection is continually up-to-date. We can also train your staff on avoiding viruses and keep you informed about the latest news and best practices to protect your business.

Backup Solutions: Your business depends on data. Random or infrequent on-site tape backups are not enough to protect you from costly data losses. Newpath IT consultants can install and configure a state-of-the-art data backup systems tailored to meet your specific needs.

Our approach to backup solutions takes the worry out of data protection and reovery, allowing you to focus on your business. You can also choose to have Newpath IT support consultants monitor your backup systems every day, or several times per week depending on your business needs.

Emergency, Easy Disaster Recovery Systems: Whether the damage is due to structural defect, common disk failure, accident, deliberate action or virus attack, Newpath IT are able to recover lost, deleted, damaged, hidden, encrypted or password protected data. We can recover information from virtually any type of media or operating system. We also have server disaster recovery software to help your network get back up to speed quickly. Our methods, tools and tested techniques ensure easy disaster recovery, and quick and complete results.

Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery Assistance: In protecting your business, it’s best to expect the unexpected. Newpath IT can help you devise an IT disaster recovery plan so that, if the worst happens, you can bounce back in the shortest time possible. Preparing for things like electrical outages or surges, flood, fire, theft or vandalism means you must protect your data, and potentially save your business from closing its doors, permanently. Our information security consultants have advice on locating temporary space, hardware replacement, software safeguards, and communications strategies to help you put your total office environment back together, and get your business back on track.

Security Services: Rapid advances in technology have brought new opportunities for commercial and government organisations of all sizes to extend their reach and enhance their services. Yet with all the advantages of the information age, organisations are also experiencing new vulnerabilities. As physical borders and paper-based processes are increasingly replaced by electronic ones, an organisation's most valuable asset–information on its customers and constituents is often left exposed. With too much to risk, leading organisations are shifting from viewing information security as a defensive strategy to an integral part of their overall IT and business posture.

With Newpath IT, businesses can articulate and implement a proactive, enterprise-wide security strategy that aligns with their overall business objectives, processes and applications to manage and reduce risk, ensure productivity, enhance information integrity and sharing, and comply with internal policies and complex industry regulations.

Security Services offered include: 

• Enterprise Security Management: includes the governance, strategies, frameworks, plans and assessments necessary to create and manage an effective enterprise-wide security program.
• Security engineering: encompasses the architecture, design, development and deployment of solutions and services that secure your information assets and infrastructure.
• Security audits: provides in-depth analysis of your current environment, and recommendations for action items to ensure appropriate levels of security are being achieved.
• Managed Security Services: provides reliable protection from viruses, hacker intrusions, spam and other unwanted Internet traffic to guard your business from downtime and other productivity losses.