Network Assessment
What Is A Network Assessment?
A network assessment is a detailed report and analysis of your company’s existing IT infrastructure, management, security, processes, and performance. The purpose of the assessment is to identify opportunities for improvement and get a comprehensive view and current state of your existing network. This helps you make more informed and strategic business decisions.
A network assessment is an in-depth analysis of your current IT infrastructure that provides you with a comprehensive understanding of your existing environment and recommends improvements such as network consolidation, simplification, or automation.
When you engage a third-party partner “AssessedBy SiRON” to lead a network assessment, our objectivity is a benefit. With a fresh perspective, we can deliver unbiased recommendations to achieve improved capacity planning and performance. We can also help create a network infrastructure strategy aligned with your business goals.
Six Key Benefits Of A Rigorous AssessedBy SiRON
From greater agility to enhanced security, the benefits of a high-performance computing environment are easy to visualize. What can be harder to see is the value of taking a good, hard look at network health and laying out a clear road map for improvement. Following are the benefits of a serious AssessedBy SiRON:
1 . See What’s Going On With Your IT Infrastructure.
An in-depth analysis of your current IT infrastructure—from topology maps to local traffic pattern analysis—can help ensure you’re making informed decisions about network maintenance and upgrades. Armed with accurate evaluations of current infrastructure assets, such as maintenance status, capabilities, and weaknesses, your team can improve the survivability of optimal systems, and phase out those that aren’t passing muster.
2 . Create A Strategic Road Map For Your IT Systems And People.
After gaining visibility into the current state, your team can zero in on opportunities for network consolidation, simplification, automation, and possible cost reduction. You’ll be able to move forward with a clear road map to a modern, software-defined, and virtualized infrastructure. This frees up your team to focus on more strategic activities. Your IT employees will have the opportunity to transition from admins to engineers, working on value-added tasks without headaches from DR, backups, and administrative tasks.
3 . Improve Security.
It is difficult to defend against cyberattacks without full visibility into your network, including an understanding of how people, processes, and other technologies interact with it. A strong network assessment uncovers those behaviors and interactions, empowering a proactive and preventative security strategy that protects against global threats as well as end-user vulnerabilities.
4 . Uncover Serious Cost-Savings Potential.
In a traditional, legacy computing environment, capacity is provisioned based on estimated peak resource requirements. This results in periods where expensive resources are sitting idle, and other periods where capacity is not enough. A network assessment opens the door to designing a new network architecture that includes cloud computing. In the cloud, you can access as much or as little capacity as you need and dynamically scale to meet actual demand, only paying for what you use.
5 . Identify Protocol Enhancements Like Network Segmentation.
Assessments can expose vulnerabilities in your current operations—and, in turn, uncover opportunities for improvement. For instance, when users access data on a flat network, a data breach can spread quickly across the enterprise. Network Assessment reduces the attack surface and can simplify your organization’s compliance reporting.
6 . Get C-Suite Support For Improvements.
With today’s enterprise leaders more invested in technology strategy than ever, a rigorous assessment can go a long way in making the case for the C-suite to sign off on meaningful upgrades. Strengthen your proposal for needed improvements by showing analytical data about how technical features will directly improve operations, support business goals, and alleviate specific pain points.
Moving From Assessments To Opportunity
For enterprises seeking a hardened security posture, greater agility, and improved business results, a network assessment may be the big step forward that you need. Getting a handle on your current-state infrastructure and topology is only the beginning. Conducting a network assessment will give you the information you need to prioritize and pitch new investments in your enterprise. Your approach to new technology and projects will become data-driven and strategic, based on leveraging your current investments to their total potential.
AssessedBy SiRON offers a wide range of software tools each designed for a specific IT discipline to produce a unique set of IT assessment reports. We have tools that evaluate Network and Security.
