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Industry:
Legal
Services:
Tech Consulting/Project
Duration:
2 weeks
Tech:
Server, OS
Business Problems
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, ensuring the utmost security of sensitive data is paramount for any IT company. Our database security project employs cutting-edge encryption protocols and robust access controls to safeguard critical information against unauthorized access or breaches.
Project Plan
We did commissioning & decommissioning by following below plan -
Commissioning
- Did Inventory of the computing & hardware resources present on current environment.
- Identified the roles and application running on the server.
- Installed the supporting windows OS with the current patch level.
- Made sure that the OS is compliant as per the corporate policies and performing OS hardening.
- Implementation of access policies, endpoint protection agent & installing extra level of defense for any malware and ransomware attacks.
- Deploying policies for user management and network policies.
- Defining a cycle of patch management of server
- Added this server to the regular audit cycle & housekeeping activities.
Decommissioning
- Migrated all the server roles and users to the new server.
- Uninstalled the corporate policies and endpoint protection agent from the server.
- Checking & validation of other dependent services & re-assignment of IP addresses.
- Ensured with the hardware vendor that the server is removed from the server rack of the Data center.
- Ensuring with the vendor for the scrapping of server hard disk if it is not usable.
- We recommended our client to follow the IT best practices to upgrade the hardware in every 3 years.
Benefits
The IT company's database security project ensures robust protection for sensitive information. This fortification shields against unauthorized access, cyber threats, and potential data breaches. As a result, the client experiences heightened confidence in their digital operations.
- Compliance – OS was updated & hardware had latest firmware upgrades.
- They got OEM support to perform any kind of replacement of server hardware.
