Security Management

The prevalence of Microsoft operating systems makes them a favourite target for malicious attack from external sources. Additionally, since most attacks on corporate systems occur from within the business, it is imperative that organisational desktop and server environments are protected.

Enterprise systems need to be designed with security in mind.  These systems then need to be continuously monitored, patched and tested to ensure that they remain secure.  Dimension Data has hundreds of man-years of experience designing, deploying and secure enterprise computing environments, especially Microsoft operating environments. We deliver a complete security lifecycle offering to our client base.

Our approach to security is holistic and comprises an approach that includes:

• Ensuring that systems are secure by design.  We believe that security is a core design principle, not an element that can be added on after the design has been completed.
• Protecting systems by ensuring that the right people, processes and technologies are in place to help ensure that data is accessible only to trusted users, and that systems are configured properly and updated as needed to assist in keeping unauthorised users out;
• Detecting attempted intrusions, violations of security, operational problems, unexpected behaviour, or pre-failure indications;
• Defending systems by taking automatic corrective action when a security violation occurs or is suspected;
• Recovering computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed depends on having the right systems and processes in place to restore a machine and its data to a last known good state while minimising its downtime; and
• Managing and coordinating patch management to ensure that clients continuously receive the right level of updates to enable you to maintain operational efficiency and effectiveness, overcome security vulnerabilities, and maintain the stability of your production environment.

Our systematic approach to deploying and maintaining a Microsoft environment, coupled with a comprehensive set of Security offerings will provide you with the peace-of-mind that your Microsoft environment is secure.