SERVICES
Technology Assurance is an holistic view on technology which considers and balances attitudes towards risk with business strategy.
Our services.
We help companies in a number of ways:
Corporate Technology Assurance.
The disciplines of Information Technology applied to assets and how the people in your organisation interact with them.
Traditionally, investment cycles have driven deployment of technology and associated security. As a result, organisations can often find themselves captive to inefficient working practices and technologies that are always one step behind those that seek to subvert them. Applications and infrastructure are now available online which places strain an organisation’s Information Security strategy. Whether through extending security boundaries onto the public internet, capacity issues at centralised internet breakout, or hybrid integration with third party authentication mechanisms. Services, applications and supply chains all need controls and security measures to guarantee trading security. Technic8’s holistic approach assures that every element of your own unique technology is considered, with a helping hand to ensure you have the right technology, secured.
Commercial Technology Assurance.
The discipline of ensuring that any Information Security is cascaded throughout your organisation, guiding staff, suppliers and customers to interact with systems appropriately.
Data Loss Prevention, Digital Rights Management, Information Protection and paywalls are effective ways of commercially securing your digital assets and IPR. These methods need to be implemented with consideration to your company’s overall attitude to risk, funding and capacity to benefit from them. We will use our knowledge of digital trade and risk to help understand the environment around your services and products, so the right protection is in place.
Ensuring that your business continues to trade in the event of a problem is an essential component of Technology Assurance. We will dust off that Business Continuity Plan and bring it into the online age.
Reputation Technology Assurance.
The discipline of brand management and protecting your intellectual property.
For most companies, protecting your brand in the context of information security is all about proving you are who you say you are; on whitelists, blacklist and other reputational scoring services. Technic8 are very experienced in the management of external, internet presence at all scales. If you purchased your web hosting package with a website built-in, there is every chance that your mail exchange records – those that hold the configuration which most affects your spam reputation – are configured there, rather than with your email provider. This kind of gap is easily plugged, but it takes experience to set it in context of your entire brand and then get it fixed. That’s what we do.
Legal and Regulatory Technology Assurance.
The discipline of ensuring that your legal entity is protected throughout your information technology supply-chain.
Different industry verticals mean varied and sometimes challenging regulatory frameworks. For your business to compete, accreditation is a fast route to gain the social proof your company needs. For example, in order to take part in many UK Government contracts, information security accreditation is mandatory. Cyber Essentials and ISO27001 are two favoured routes, yet one costs considerably more to implement and maintain. Which one is right for you? More importantly, which one fits with your business strategy?
At Technic8, we will work with you to assess what is the right thing to do.
