Networks keep your business integrated and allow managers a great deal of control over the many different interconnected systems. As we have expanded our reliance on networks, IT professionals have had to keep up with the growing demands of maintaining their client’s vital systems.
But what happens when certain IT components start to fail, your network grows to a point where it’s hard to physically manage, or the threat of a ransomware attack could cripple your network? Well, if you can’t measure something, it’s pretty hard to make it any better. Enter the network assessment. Read on as we cover the innovative network assessment capabilities we now have available for our clients.
New Technology, More Capabilities, Less Downtime
As leaders in IT support in Jacksonville, we continue to stay on the cutting edge of new technology and strategies in the field. We are proud to now have expanded capability in running advanced network assessments for our clients.
Whether you want to know how many Windows 7 machines you currently have running, all the different risk areas in your business, or the best way to configure a new network, we now have additional capability to diagnose, detail, and prioritize faster than ever before.
What is a Network Assessment?
A comprehensive IT network assessment provides a reporting of a company’s existing IT systems, infrastructure, security protocol, processes, and overall performance. The network assessment helps IT professionals identify the current state of the system and opportunities for improvement and then be able to articulate that to managers and decision makers.
Network assessments used to be time consuming and somewhat obtrusive to clients, requiring techs to be onsite for many hours to gather all the necessary data. With our state-of-the-art network assessment tools, we can have a complete assessment of your system typically in under an hour.
Network assessments are fantastic at locating the deficiencies in your system and recommending ways to shore up your network’s defenses – something Lake City, FL may have avoided when they recently paid nearly half a million dollars to have their networks released from a ransomware attacker.
Easy to Understand Reports for Decision Makers
We understand that a network assessment does no good if it doesn’t produce a report that’s usable to the decision makers in an organization. Often, decision makers don’t have an IT background so a bunch of esoteric terms isn’t useful either. That’s why our network assessment always wraps up by producing easy-to-understand reports made especially for managers to easily see the current state and areas of improvement for a given system or process.
We can produce a number of different reports depending on the needs of the assessment. Four of the most useful reports we can produce from our advanced network assessment include:
- Client Risk Reporting: with an internal/external threat assessment you know the exact weak points in your business and can take proactive measures to mitigate against them. The risk report can also spot other common threats like unsupported operating systems, computers without anti-spyware installed, and even user passwords that have never changed.
- Network Management Plan: The Management Plan ranks individual issues based upon their potential risk to the network while providing guidance on which issues to address by priority.
- Asset Detail Reports: get a truly all-inclusive view of all of the computers, printers, and network devices in your network. With asset detail reports, you’ll see a breakdown of each and every system. Within these, you’ll get a mini risk assessment, system profile, memory usage, operating system configuration, applications list, licenses, and more. No more going to multiple systems to get all the information you need.
- IT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis: our assessment modernizes the business-standard SWOT analysis just for IT. You’ll quickly be able to see internal activities your network is doing really well and also areas of deficiency. At the same time, you’ll see external ways you can improve in the future, as well as any external threats to your system that should be mitigated against. After the IT SWOT analysis has been performed, a full list of recommendations is developed, based on achievable goals.
Unobtrusive Onsite Assessments in Less than One Hour
In the past, network assessments might take many hours or even days to complete. Technicians needed to usually be onsite and tying up a machine during the majority of the process. As well, old assessments would usually leave a “trail” in a system that required work afterwards to fully clean up. No more. Our new network assessment takes a fraction of the time, requires a minimum amount of time for a technician to be onsite, and leaves nothing on your system to have to clean up afterwards.
Within minutes, IT managers and decision makers can hold in their hands key recommendations that help get the best return on the investment in the network’s health. Crucial information like:
- Risk Score: get a fact-based metric for exactly how your business rates for a variety of risks.
- Prioritization: know which activities to undertake now and which can wait. The recommendations are prioritized in a way which best helps to lower your organization’s risk score.
- Network Health: get a benchmark from which to measure progress over time. Prioritization of the remedial issues helps improve network health.
Schedule Your Network Assessment Now
We have experienced and proven IT professionals available now to maximize your network’s capabilities. We’ll help uncover hard-to-detect network issues, measure your network’s risks, recommend and prioritize fixes, and track our overall progress.
Contact us now for a free consultation and to schedule your comprehensive network assessment.