Assessment Descriptions

Remote Vulnerability Assessment (RVA)

Get an objective assessment of your network from an outsider's point of view. Vulnerability scans performed at your convenience, anytime day or night, can reveal how outsiders, whether hackers or customers, see your network. The result includes management and technical reports that share an abundance of information to better plan and manage your networks' exposure. In the end, this exposure will help you minimize potential risks and increase productivity—both elements that directly affect your bottom line.

RVA Identifies:

• How potential offenders view your network for all Internet-accessible data services as well as software vulnerabilities from the Public IP space
• Security posture and exposure issues
• Compliancy requirements

RVA Benefits:

• Minimize security risks to organization
• Provides valuable information about level of exposure to threats
• Delivers management & technical reports describing security posture & how to remedy issues identified

Business Impact Assessment (BIA)

Five minutes? Two hours? Six days? How long can your company survive in an outage before it affects the bottom line? We'll identify critical business areas including a financial impact analysis, should your business fall victim to an outage or extended disruption. You'll gain constructive information of the financial and intangible losses that can occur. In the end, you'll know what resources and recovery processes are available to protect your company from the potential loss of vital data.

BIA Identifies:

• Most critical business processes
• Maximum sustainable outage
• Financial, productivity, and personal impacts of an extended business disruption
• Short term and long term business losses
• Priority of business process recovery
• Most vital records to protect
• Diverse tactics and recommendations to balance recovery costs with different risk thresholds

BIA Benefits:

• In depth analysis of most critical functions in your business environment
• Understanding of tangible and intangible impacts
• Identify most vital resources to support business process
• Define recovery time window upon which to design your recovery strategies
• Make sound investment decisions

Data Protection Assessment (DPA)

Don't wait until it's too late to back up your data. This assessment can determine whether your current infrastructure is adequately protecting your data or whether you are taking a gamble with improper back-up systems. CIMCO takes a systematic approach by assessing your company's storage availability, resources, information access and management capabilities. You'll get a personalized analysis of your current system, a detailed proposal of specific enhancements you can make, plus a cost-effective implementation strategy based on your business needs.

DPA Identifies:

• Your most critical data assets
• Current backup-recovery success rates
• Current backup-recovery capabilities
• Deployed backup and archiving strategy
• Service Level Agreements
• Disaster recovery dependencies
• Current backup-recovery management processes

DPA Benefits:

• Identifies current backup-recovery deficiencies
• Best practice data protection methodology recommendations
• Linkage of data protection to overall BC/DR strategy
• Define recovery time window upon which to design your recovery strategies
• Make sound investment decisions
• Document environment and process flow

Storage Assessment

As the volume of data increases for your business, do you have storage environments that can handle the overflow? With a Storage Assessment, you can see your company's current storage infrastructure and how it will be affected as your business grows. Storage allocations. Data categorization. Priorities. The Storage Assessment will help you understand your current solution, identify areas needing modification to improve efficiencies and recommend a strategy that meets the current and future needs of your business. The strategy will take into account your existing infrastructure while providing solutions to enhance or upgrade your current environment—cost effectively.

Storage Assessment Identifies:

• Inefficiencies and waste in current storage distribution and allocation
• All storage assets associated with critical business process applications
• Data classification including criticality, performance, and usefulness
• Current management and monitoring processes
• Overall storage performance

Storage Assessment Benefits:

• Identify how to improve overall storage allocation and performance
• Best practice data classification to enable better understanding and integration into BC/DR policies
• Vendor neutral recommendations on how to deploy best practice consolidated storage platform
• Document current storage environment