Optimizing your IT infrastructure and business processes creates immediate competitive advantages. But what happens to those advantages -- all that increased productivity -- when a computer virus shuts you down for days? Or when a cyber attack results in millions of dollars of lost data and your partner's proprietary information popping up on a competitor's Web site. Then there's the indirect cost of higher insurance premiums.

A clear, comprehensive enterprise security architecture that protects your intellectual property, IT infrastructure, facilities and people from intrusion and attack must be a strategic component of your business plan. By dramatically lowering risk, it reduces insurance requirements. It allows you to see where and how to protect against future threats. It protects your business plan, productivity gains and people. These aren't just returns on security investments. They're competitive advantages. And they're all available to you today with Critical Infrastructure and Asset Protection Services from NGIT Information Partnering strategic IT outsourcing services.

Together we identify your security requirements and how they impact your day-to-day communications needs. We develop a security architecture that defines your most effective enterprise security solution and ensures that the systems, applications and components that comprise this solution support your short- and long-term business requirements.

Your business operations require on-line access to key systems and applications -- 24/7/365. This access must be scrupulously protected from all security breaches. A comprehensive security blanket, including intrusion detection and virus scans, finds and blocks attacks on your existing system, applications and network architecture. An anti-virus protection program is implemented enterprise-wide and updated at regular intervals. And a robust access control system that included biometric controls or a full Public Key Infrastructure solution can identify access levels to IT resources "to a person".

A security breach or natural disaster can keep your business from operating at optimal levels. Disaster contingency models are created and tested against your operational requirements. Comprehensive on- and off-site data back up and storage solutions, including storage area networks and network attached storage, are formulated and put in place to assure uninterrupted performance in the event of any contingency.

Threats to your facilities and all other critical physical assets are systematically assessed. Requirements are identified. Solutions can include a variety of automated response systems that address threats in real time without human intervention. Physical access control at all key points can be established and a wide variety of electronic options, such as thermal imagers, digital cameras, sensors, radios, alarms and monitors can be incorporated into your solution. If required, your facility can be protected from chemical or biological attacks with advanced detection of a wide range of toxic agents.

Protecting your critical information and assets is at the center of an integrated strategy that safeguards your ability to compete and succeed. It protects your physical assets and ensures the seamless and uninterrupted flow of information throughout your enterprise and beyond. And it brings the added value of increased productivity, reduced costs and minimized risk. All of these benefits are available to you today with Critical Information and Asset Protection Services from NGIT Information Partnering.