Corporate Technologies’ professional services organization provides a full range of security solutions that meet your business and IT needs—whether data security, operating system security, application security, or network security—through our four-phase methodology.

Architect
Before Corporate Technologies recommends any security solution, we develop an optimum security road map that meets our client’s specific needs. We fully analyze our client’s business requirements, taking into account both business and IT needs, to ensure that the security solution recommended supports all of them.

For example, if you operate in an extended enterprise, we make sure only clients and partners you trust have secure access to appropriate data. If you want employees to work off-site, we can implement access via a highly secure Virtual Private Network. If you have departments, such as HR, with unique security requirements, we can create security “zones” that allow broader access to information than that available to other employees. We can even help you comply with external security regulations, such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Corporate Technologies also takes your existing IT infrastructure into account.
When implementing a network security solution, we analyze the protocols in use by the application—to enable proper transfer of information. If we are adding security to your desktops, our extensive knowledge of Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems allows us to readily implement lock-downs.

And because our professional services team takes a holistic view of your entire enterprise, you get a state-of-the-art security infrastructure capable of handling the complexities of integration, monitoring, and management.

Integrate
The architectural design of our best-practice security solutions is just the beginning of Corporate Technologies’ professional services. Before integrating a new solution into your production environment, we can bring all the components of your security solution together in our unique Interoperability Lab, where we ensure we are meeting all the goals established in the architectural phase. Only then do we integrate the new security solution into your existing infrastructure. To ensure smooth implementation, the engineers responsible for testing the solution in our Lab integrate it in the field.

And because we are sensitive to both your business and IT requirements, our integration always takes each into account. For a multinational architectural engineering firm, for example, we implemented a next-generation security solution supporting a major business goal—extensive customer interaction to allow employees to share IP securely with customers to interact in the design-build process.

Optimize
Corporate Technologies also ensures that your security is optimized on several levels. If, like most firms, network security is important to you, we can help you successfully implement and optimize your IT security policy—by balancing open and closed access, while avoiding disruption of existing operational infrastructure and protocols. Our expert professional services engineers make sure no asset is compromised and they also disallow all prohibited activities. They are highly skilled at knowing the rule set for each of the heterogeneous devices, and the effect that security has on your key assets.

We optimize your security solutions to ensure they can be sustained—either by your IT group or our professional services. Because any security solution we design incorporates best practices, we readily accommodate all your important upgrades, whether patches to operating systems or new anti-virus measures.

Through our partners, we can also audit and penetration-test an environment to assure that it fulfills the design goal of meeting your security policy. In keeping with our best practices standards, our engineers do not perform these audits, because we firmly believe that the company that built the security infrastructure should not be the one to test it.

Support
Corporate Technologies’ professional services team provides comprehensive support throughout the client engagement, from architecting a security solution through optimization.

We are highly knowledgeable about how security products work in a wide variety of production environments, and can provide clients with advanced project management skills. We routinely project-manage multimillion-dollar engagements to ensure that our solutions meet agreed-to time, budget, and business requirements.

At the end of an engagement, we collaborate with our client’s IT staff to ensure full knowledge transfer, supported by excellent and comprehensive documentation. Post-engagement, we remain fully available on a consulting basis, whether to answer routine questions or advise on security upgrades and updates.