Infotech CEO Moritz du Toit.
InfoTech, a multidisciplinary technology company, has expanded its portfolio by launching a new security stack backed by cyber security experts to provide security testing, audits, recommendations, and solutions.
InfoTech CEO Mauritz du Toit said the new service is in line with the company's continued development of services.destructive expansion' strategy. “Security assessments provide comprehensive intrusion, vulnerability, and risk testing. Our security teams monitor the dark web to proactively detect threats and identify cyber threats within an organization's workforce. Security has gone so far as to assess gaps in his skills and awareness,” he says.
InfoTech's cyber security specialists can also make recommendations on areas that need improvement and work on those improvements.
“Assessments can be performed on an ad-hoc basis, on a per-environment basis, without the need for long-term contracts,” he says. “We have automated many of our audit and penetration testing processes to reduce the cost of audits and make audits accessible to more customers.”
Du Toit says the new service has been welcomed by the market, with customers now preferring to work with a single service provider.
“We see a growing demand from public and private companies to work with one company that provides all IT services,” he says. He notes that the security stack complements his InfoTech's infrastructure-as-a-service, backup and disaster recovery solutions and services.
Here's how InfoTech's security assessments complement other security services.
- Identifying vulnerabilities and threats:
Security assessments help identify potential vulnerabilities and threats within your IT infrastructure, such as systems used for backup, DR, and IaaS. Understanding security weaknesses allows you to better design and implement protective measures.
- Data protection and confidentiality:
Security assessments focus on ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This is extremely important for services such as backup and IaaS where sensitive data may be stored or transmitted. Ensure your data is protected both during normal operations and during disasters.
- Access control and identity management:
The assessment evaluates access control and identity management systems. For services like IaaS, it is paramount to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to critical infrastructure. This also concerns the security of your backup and disaster recovery data.
- Communication channel security:
Assess the security of communication channels used to back up and transmit data. This is especially important in the context of DR, where data must be replicated and restored securely.
- Incident response plan:
Security assessments often include reviewing and enhancing incident response plans. For DR, having a robust incident response plan ensures quick and effective recovery from any disruptive event.
- Compliance and regulatory requirements:
Security assessments help ensure that your IT infrastructure, including backup, DR, and IaaS components, complies with relevant industry regulations and standards. This is important for businesses that need to adhere to specific compliance requirements.
- Security awareness and training:
Assess the level of security awareness and training within your organization. Users and their IT personnel need to be educated on security best practices, especially when dealing with critical services such as backups and IaaS.
- Encryption and data protection measures:
Evaluate the use of encryption for data in transit and at rest. This is essential to protect backups and sensitive information stored on IaaS platforms.
- Secure infrastructure configuration:
Ensure that the configuration of your infrastructure components is secure. Misconfiguration may result in exploitable vulnerabilities. This is important for both IaaS and DR systems.
- Security control integration:
Seamlessly integrate security controls into your backup, DR, and IaaS processes. This includes mechanisms for monitoring, recording, and alerting on security incidents.
- Third party and vendor security:
Evaluate the security practices of third-party vendors involved in providing backup, DR, or IaaS services. This includes evaluating the security measures that the cloud service provider implements for his IaaS.
- Physical security considerations:
Consider the physical security of your data center and the facilities that house your backup and DR infrastructure. Physical security is an important aspect of overall data protection.
InfoTech offers a portfolio of 15 assessments to help customers identify areas for improvement. These include:
- Security risk assessment: Assess your IT infrastructure, systems, and practices to identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities.
- Compliance assessment: Assess compliance with industry-specific regulations and compliance standards.
- Assessing cloud readiness: Assess your readiness to move to the cloud and evaluate your current infrastructure, applications, and data to determine the feasibility and benefits of adopting cloud solutions.
- Infrastructure health check: Review your IT infrastructure to ensure it's optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Evaluating network performance: Analyze your network infrastructure to identify bottlenecks, latency issues, and areas for optimization.
- Data governance and management assessment: Evaluate how you manage and govern your data, and assess data quality, accessibility, and security.
- Backup and disaster recovery assessment: Evaluate your backup and disaster recovery plans and identify gaps and vulnerabilities.
- Assessing your digital transformation readiness: Assess your readiness for digital transformation efforts by looking at your technology infrastructure, processes, and workforce capabilities.
- IT Service Management (ITSM) Assessment: Review IT service management practices such as incident management, change management, and service desk operations.
- Software license and compliance assessment: Evaluate your software licensing practices to ensure compliance with license agreements.
- User experience (UX) rating: Evaluate the user experience of your digital product or service.
- Evaluation of cost optimization: Review your IT spending to identify potential cost savings opportunities.
- Assessing your IT training needs: Assess the skill level of your IT team and identify areas that could benefit from additional training or upskilling.
- Vendor risk management assessment: Assess how your organization manages risks associated with third-party vendors.
- Sustainability and environmental impact assessment: Assess your organization's environmental impact and sustainability practices.
