Consulting, IT Leadership
And Management
Consulting, IT Leadership And Management
We’ve developed a managed IT service portfolio that allows us to effectively transform or evolve our customers’ capabilities, and a global systems delivery platform that can be applied to the seamless planning, building, and operation of any technology solution.
Cybersecurity Assessment Services – Navigating the modern vulnerable IT landscape doesn’t come easy. Organizations must constantly drive efforts to ensure their core systems are well-protected and offer seamless access to users 24×7. High availability of environments is critical to business operations and that’s why it is essential for businesses to undergo continuous Cybersecurity assessments. It is critical that they can identify existing security challenges, understand root case of issues, and take steps to safeguard their IT infrastructure.
What You Need To Know
About Cyber Threats
Remember, Remember: The Hack of November!
For much of North America, the fall means the gloves come out and so do the guns: It’s Hunting Season.
There’s a trend in Cybersecurity operations to work to close the gap between discovering a breach after the damage has been inflicted, and delving deeper into the infrastructure to evaluate the “What/Where/When/How” to advance the security team’s preemptive efforts in deterring or at least containing the malicious activity. And with one report suggesting ransomware being up almost 90 per cent over last year, it’s getting a bit confusing as to which side of the “hunting season” organizations are finding themselves.
November is also a time for reflection on the potential for cyber hacking predators to step up their hunting efforts as well. But beyond the traditional “Guy Fawkes Day,” antics that always enshrines November 5th, the FBI is once again suggesting that the chance for a rise in nefarious activities surrounding the date may be a precursor to the rising tide in activities around ransomware and zero-day attacks.
Who’s Hunting Whom?
To stay ahead of the tracks, CloudSyncIT suggests IT teams dig more thoroughly into the data to identify possible attack trends. Like a flock of ducks to decoys, cyber threat actors tend to follow patterns in how they approach their targets. The trick is learning how your system behaves, and what constitutes an “anomaly” within it, and that requires more than what the audit trails and firewall settings are reporting.
Just like checking the weather conditions before heading out into the wilderness to catch that unsuspecting prey, cyber threat hunters must completely understand the IT system environment, and what is happening in and to it.
That means collecting copious amounts of data from multiple sources within your system (endpoints and beyond). Because ransomware seems to be in season, security engineers, architects and threat hunters tend to agree that it’s important to collect and compare data against threat feeds to confirm the existence of known threats.
But collecting data is only a part of what it takes to be effective in defending against a breach. The ability to process the information for trending and further analysis, pivot off what is collected, can help companies—especially in the mid-market sector—set their sights on more refined defense mechanisms ahead of an incident. This shift in focus is the very reason why and how Cybersecurity teams are able to connect seemingly unrelated threats and understand the full scope of an attack before the spread of a crippling event.
Be Prepared
Any young man who has ventured out with the Boy Scouts knows that two-word phrase can cover a lot of ground. The same is true when preparing appropriate possibilities against the potential increase of ransomware attacks that seem to be on the rise in popularity.
And while November tends to kick off the “SAD Season,” a time that usually sees elevations in boredom, anxieties associated with the onset of “Cabin Fever,” and other oft-reported motivators behind bad online behaviour, recent history suggests hacktivities don’t seem to get any greater than those that occur at other times of the year.
Fact is, hackers just don’t care about your feelings! The FBI reports that while Anonymous and other groups have often tipped their hands to foreboding moments in the past, like in November 2011’s “Operation Fox Hunt” and “OpFacebook,” although both of those threats came to no avail. Still, it’s good to make sure you keep your powder dry and your barrel clean!
Reliable IT Services for Businesses
IT Strategy and Planning Services
A flexible technology foundation should only come from well managed strategic IT consulting services.
Why is it Important to Have an IT Strategy Plan?
Driving growth and agility in a digital transformation era doesn’t come easy. CloudSyncIT’s IT strategy and planning services are what you need to adapt to a hyper-competitive marketplace, stay on top of tech trends, and drive revenue.
At CloudSyncIT, we look at strategic IT not just as a service, but as a foundation on which your growing business can be built. We help develop and execute a clear and strategic IT roadmap with priorities that are closely linked to your business goals; we begin by understanding where you are, where you want to go and undertake steps to get you there.
Contact an IT Strategy and Planning Expert
Our methodology is centered on achieving the greatest benefit and value by aligning your strategic objectives, capabilities and information systems requirements with a best fit technology capability. Through comprehensive interviews across all layers of your organization, we help identify current and future gaps, based on what’s coming next. We also help examine and evaluate existing business applications and IT infrastructure as well as budget and utilization to help you prioritize which gaps to address first.
Staying Ahead of IT Trends
With a clear understanding of the future-state business, our IT experts roll up their sleeves to architect an IT capability with the appropriate infrastructure, systems, and security to achieve your business objectives – in a timeline that is appropriate. We help you get insight into the strategic steps you need to take drive more value from IT, stay ahead of trends, and achieve a competitive advantage while improving customer experience.
Extensive and Diverse Industry Knowledge
Our thorough understanding of emerging technologies and their potential to impact the organization enables us to provide guidance and direction on technological innovations that are right for your business and help you build a tech-driven mindset that will go a long way in ensuring the success of your IT organization.
Business Processes and IT Services Cost Optimization Assessment
Take advantage of opportunities that exist within your company with CloudSyncIT’s Optimization Services. CloudSyncIT offers a variety of consulting services focused on optimizing business and technology costs. Most businesses are focused on their sales and capitalizing on opportunities for selling their good or services. While sales are crucial to any business, another key focus area that is often marginalized is the optimization of your business. Are your business processes streamlined and maximizing the capabilities of your employees? Do you have manual or paper-centric practices? Are your technology costs allocated to their most efficient resources?
How CloudSyncIT Assesses Business Process
CloudSyncIT teams have extensive experience transforming our client’s businesses, giving them key insights into a variety of industries. We blend that experience with our personal growth story to offer our clients a partnership that will optimize their business processes and IT.
IT cost optimization takes advantage of opportunities that are already present in your company. You know the opportunity is there, the challenge is finding it. When you are so integrated in your company, it can be difficult to see inefficiencies, but our team is trained to find these opportunities.
How CloudSyncIT Assesses IT Cost Optimization
Our information technology consultants leverage their experience and tools to analyze your spending, research your existing licensing contracts, and review your technology usage. We look at your data capture scenarios and search for opportunities to streamline the process, improve workflow, and automate your consumption. Our approach is comprehensive, and we drive toward the difficult CloudSyncITion: Why?
Why are you paying for a cloud-based infrastructure to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days per year when your business operates 10 hours per day, 5 days per week, 260 days per year? What’s the difference? 8,760 hours versus 2,500 hours. That’s a potential 71.5% reduction in your cloud spend. We are trained to see these potential differences. We challenge your business to think differently about your technology.
Cost optimization is a key opportunity that leads to funding innovation within your organization. We can create 5-25% financial improvements. Digital disruption provides immense value, and our approach drives tangible results that are replicable.
CloudSync’s IT Strategy and Planning Services
With our roadmap of initiatives that are tied directly to business outcomes and complete with a detailed plan and a rock-solid timeline and budget, we can bring your organization up to speed; we can guide you with the best possible answers to the most complex technical challenges, and provide end-to-end tech assistance that best fits your unique organization. This includes:
- Existing IT Environment Assessment
- Gap Analysis
- IT Infrastructure Design
- Technology Roadmap and Recommendations
- IT Cost Optimization
- IT Security Assessment
Transparency, Reporting, and Results
We know what it takes to achieve business goals, and what it takes to succeed with IT. With our IT strategy and planning services, you can optimize your technology capability and deliver the data your employees need to make decisions, to cater to customer needs and conduct nearly every facet of your business.
Ensured Digital Transformation
Our passion to lead, innovate, and change our clients’ technology environment enables us to empower their business to compete on a higher level and open up new avenues for revenue. Whatever your pain point is, our strategic IT consulting services can help you address it to remain relevant and one step ahead of your competitors.
IT Consulting Services
In a tech-driven world, it’s not easy to drive forward when you’re stuck dealing with a backlog of technology projects, reacting to the day-to-day, or trying to maintain an accumulation of outdated applications and systems. At CloudSyncIT, we believe in integrating informational technology (IT) into your overall business strategy, helping you to take full advantage of the opportunities it creates, such as moving into a different market, capturing market share or growing revenue.
Why Choose CloudSyncIT for IT Consulting Services?
We can help you develop and execute a clear and strategic IT roadmap with priorities that are closely linked to business goals. We will work one-on-one with your team to understand your goals, business processes, and current information systems capabilities. As part of our IT consulting process:
We Listen to Your Needs in Order to Plan an IT Strategy
You tell us where you want to improve, the goals you want to reach and the results you’re looking to achieve and we deliver quality IT services for your enterprise.
We Align Our Tactics with Your Objectives
We develop a technology roadmap that is aligned with your objectives. As your IT partner, we consult with your enterprise to align our technology services with your business needs.
We Build Solutions Tailored to Your Enterprise
You can propel your business forward: we deliver enterprise IT services through leadership, technology and solutions across business applications, data insights, cloud advancement and Cybersecurity.
We Operate and Deliver Measurable Results
We continually raise the bar on IT consulting service by always measuring, reporting and improving along the way. With our technology consulting service, your business can focus its operational efforts on its critical business goals.
Whether you need assistance with a project, support for ongoing maintenance, direction for IT investment, or guidance for installation of an enterprise system – we can help you move away from traditional approaches to IT planning and provide the services you need to drive the infrastructure of your technology in the right direction.
CloudSync’s IT Consulting Services Include:
- IT Strategy and Planning
- IT Service Management Assessment
- Business Processes and Cost Optimization
- Risk Management
- Program and Project Management
- IT Leadership Services
Data Protection and Availability
The unavailability of mission critical infrastructure and data directly translates to lost revenue for most organizations. In fact, most of the time, organizations are ill-equipped to initiate a business continuity process that they have implemented. . Today’s digital world is all about availability of key services to keep a workforce highly productive and ability to service customers 24×7.
Why Choose CloudSyncIT’s IT Availability and Data Protection Assessment Services
CloudSyncIT helps your business prepare for disaster by executing robust IT risk and data protection assessments, so you can identify gaps, build the right processes, and manage risks that might cause unavailability.
With an objective aimed at limiting risk and restoring your normal operational conditions after an unexpected interruption, CloudSyncIT can protect your data and design and build continuity strategies to prepare your operations and reduce the risk of a catastrophic event.
We help you develop and maintain the necessary redundancies and create secure processes that are essential to protecting and recovering your systems—all in alignment with your own individual risk tolerance.
At the center of CloudSync’s IT Risk Management, Availability, and Data Protection Assessment Plan is identifying the metrics of an organization’s Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for hardware, data, and applications. In addition, we help assess your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans to evaluate your organization’s operational capabilities after an adverse event – whether through hostile activity or natural occurrence.
CloudSyncIT’s Data Protection and Availability Assessment Services Includes:
Perform a Baseline Assessment
CloudSyncIT evaluates the current state of your enterprise data protection and availability strategy and creates actionable recommendations and roadmaps where applicable.
Contact a Data Protection and Availability Assessment Services Expert
Identify Critical Applications/Operations List
CludSyncIT consults key stakeholders to identify and rank by priority, each of the critical applications, processes, and people that form the backbone of your organization.
Establish Maximum Tolerable Outage Allowances
Based on your organization’s level of dependencies on key systems and operations, CloudSyncIT helps in identifying the maximum time period allowed for each system to remain inoperable after an event.
Establish RPO Tiers
Rather than rely on one back-up and restore schedule, CloudSyncIT will work with you to establish a multi-tiered approach, based on prioritization, level of impact, and need for availability.
Execute a Business Impact Analysis
As a critical component of IT risk management services, CloudSyncIT senior consultants will work with business leaders to perform a business impact analysis to document the business impact of a service disruption to the mission of your organization.
Conduct Strategic Leadership Workshops
CloudSyncIT provides training programs and workshops, both online and on-site, to take stakeholders through the essential processes of designing and managing an effective IT risk management assessment and data protection assessment plan.
The repercussions of a breach can be extremely far-reaching. Don’t let organizational risks bring your business down. Allow us to deploy a comprehensive IT risk assessment plan.
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If you need comprehensive strategies to adopt, implement, and manage technologies critical for your business, engaging with CloudSyncIT is the first step towards success.
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