More than being a common contracting and staffing company, Protos has defined a system for providing Administrators with methodologies, training and a knowledge-network, all to provide greater value to the client. More information on long-term contracting for Inhouse Outsourcing is available.

Architecture

Design and implementation of consolidated infrastructure components. We specialize in providing low-cost open-source alternatives to high-cost enterprise applications.

Policy Management

Data Security policies are the foundation of any Information Technology department, but quite often they are neglected if they exists at all. Without an approved and printed policy, it is nearly imposible to function in Information Technology. Data Security policies define the procedures and processes for virtually every aspect of your business. Security policies should cover all aspects of Data Security and Integrity. This includes network intrusions, incident management, backups and disaster recovery. We can assist in reviewing or creating a strong and viable data security policy to fit your organization.

Training

Training is available for a variety of systems, including systems we install. We can provide knowledge transfer to existing employee resources.

Auditing

We can provide audits of all aspects of Information Technology. This includes cooperative and/or covert network and system security audits, policy audits, physical security audits and process audits.

We prefer to perform a two-phase audit, with both a covert system audit as well as an interactive dialog and assessment with the technical resources who are responsible for the systems. This provides greater value than the more common audit, report and leave, which is commonly just grandstanding and provides little value to the technical resources who need to maintain the systems in the long run.

Focused Knowledge

• Single-Point cross-platform User Management (meta-directory servers)
• Security systems (Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Detection, Architecture)
• Enterprise hardware and applications (Sun, HP, EMC, Veritas, iPlanet)
• Web-site architecture and infrastructure
• Enterprise database architecture
• Consolidated server design (reduced cost and infrastructure)
• Open-source applications (Linux, Apache, Tomcat)
• Enterprise-wide systems monitoring and reporting