Your business is unique and we understand that.  Before we can accurately understand your security, we need to start by developing an understanding of your business.  By understanding what your company does, how it is structured and how you use technology, we can ensure that our security findings and our recommendations are reasonable, appropriate and can be effectively implemented.

To begin our core risk assessment, we start by scheduling a series of interviews to discuss the overall business, the technology environment, security technologies in place, security operations and security policies.  This gives us the baseline against which testing can be performed.

To fully understand the current state of your security, NWN includes a wide range of testing services including:

-    Internal and external vulnerability scanning

-    Penetration testing and social engineering

-    Server, workstation and network device configuration review

-    Network, Active Directory and LDAP design review

-    VoIP and IP communications testing

-    Wireless testing

-    Web application testing

-    Physical security testing

-    Security policy and operations review

-    Regulatory compliance review

Together or individually, these tests, scans and reviews allow NWN to understand your security strengths and your weaknesses in terms that are specific to  your business.

Based on our understanding of your business and the results of our testing, NWN will prepare a set of recommendations for improvements designed to accomplish your security goals and objectives in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible.  Our recommendations typically answer three questions:

-    How can you make better use of existing technologies?

-    What process or procedures changes will promote security goals?

-    If a dollar needs to be spent on new technology, where will you get the biggest bang for  your buck?