Network Infrastructure & Security
Your network is the highway for your business. If that highway gets busy, damaged, or compromised your business can't function.
Whether you have a small business LAN, or a nationwide enterprise WAN, you can trust IT Weapons to keep your network running smoothly and secure from external threats, hardware failures, and service disruptions. Our consulting team offers industry leading expertise for the design, implementation, monitoring, and management of any size business network.
IT Weapons' networking solutions are based on 4 basic principles:
- Scalability (growth)
- Availability (redundancy)
- Load-balancing
- Security
Network Design
IT Weapons' network professionals design, implement, and maintain highly scalable LAN and WAN systems; maximizing uptime, optimizing performance, and improving security. We employ the Three Tier Hierarchical model for network design; ensuring customers get the most dynamic and resilient systems possible.
Our expert network professionals design, configure, and provide support for the following devices:
- Switches
- Routers
- Wireless access points
- Firewalls
- Load balancers
- Web/SPAM filters
We are a CRTC regulated and certified telecommunications reseller of Bell, Telus, and TeraGo Networks. With our own infrastructure we can act as a high availability route point between telecommunication providers. We provide the necessary links to ensure that our customers get the best possible prices for network bandwidth regardless of their geographical location.
Our consultants develop land-based and wireless WAN connectivity solutions and we provide comprehensive WAN managed services for the following topologies:
- Private and internet based DSL
- E10, E100, and E1000 Fibre
- MPLS
- Wireless
- T1
- Voice PRI
- Internet VPN
Advanced Routing & Traffic Management
Our network consultants ensure your system's efficiency with the following features:
- Auto failover for near-zero downtime
- Quality of Service and traffic prioritization
- Dynamic load balancing
- Self-defending network features such as broadcast limitation and loop prevention
We also offer Advanced Network Optimization solutions, including:
- SSL offloading
- Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
- Application layer firewalls
- Caching
- Compression
Web/SPAM Filtering
Increase productivity with sophisticated SPAM protection, web filtering, and proxy solutions from IT Weapons. We provide various tools for detailed content filtering, with technology from the worldwide leaders in email and web security. We also offer these solutions on on demand as-a-service.
Network Management & Monitoring
The IT Weapons team offers complete network health management that keeps track of your network activity, bandwidth utilization, and availability, ensuring fast performance and state-of-the-art perimeter security. We provide comprehensive WAN management, threshold alerting, and uptime reporting.
Network Security
When it comes to security, IT Weapons consultants are industry leaders with CISSP and GIAC certifications. Our network solutions follow the most stringent ITIL, NSA, and cutting-edge best practices for optimal protection and network resilience. We provide the following security consulting services:
Security Assessment Services
- We evaluate the current state of security within your infrastructure by scanning for known vulnerabilities and we make recommendations on how to minimize the risks
- We examine existing security policies and procedures and evaluate your corporate security footprint
- We provide network perimeter assessments and maintenance. Regular review of firewall configurations is an important way to help reduce risks associated with misconfiguration. IT Weapons has the expertise to evaluate current firewall rules and recommend strategies for better securing your perimeter
- Our security professionals can perform cutting-edge penetration testing on web applications and network devices
- We provide detailed recommendations for maturing your organization's security model
- We will develop detailed compliancy reporting and server and network hardening documentation
Access Control
The IT Weapons security consultants will ensure the integrity of your business critical systems with state-of-the-art two-factor authentication protocols for remote access to your business network. They can assist your key personnel in creating and enforcing the following procedure and policy elements:
- Intrusion prevention and intrusion detection
- Server permissions
- Authentication policies
- Authorization procedures
- Audit tracking
- Secure administration
- Centralized authentication
- Content filtering
Contact IT Weapons today and learn more about how our network and security consultants can keep your business safe.