Sirius Data

Sirius Consultants can assist map out your organisation’s infrastructure & help you discover assets you perhaps never knew you had! In doing so, we can give you a full audit & make suggestions on consolidating assets and reducing your on-going maintenance, licensing & data-centre (power & air con) costs. At the end of the consulting period you will receive full documentation detailing our tactical and strategic recommendations. We could even help you examine & reduce your cross country tax bill in relation to where your WAN charges are instigated & where they end.

Sirius Consultants can assist you develop a plan to manage the one area of IT that continues to exponentially grow - your data storage. Firstly, we will need to understand what you have, what you think is good & bad about your estate & the issues you face. Once, this is understood via the auditing process we can then assist you mapping out your immediate tactical issues & provide you with a plan for your future direction. Also, because we partner with a number of leading vendors we can provide you with a more objective & independent view. As part of any storage assessment we will of course take into account and address (if necessary) your backup, business continuity and DR strategy. We can also look at security & encryption plus make recommendations on policy changes required. At the end of the consulting period you will receive full documentation detailing our tactical and strategic recommendations.

Sirius has done work with a number of Government agencies & as such we have developed relationships, partnerships and friendships with THE BEST security personnel in the market-place. Sirius can help you understand whether you have vulnerabilities & address your security issues.

Should a breach have taken place then we can provide a deep forensic insight using a number of tools & capabilities including FastBloc, Lockdown and Firefly, as well as various SCSI based write-blockers, Encase, FTK, PRTK, Paraben tools, Smart Linux, The Sleuth Kit, X-ways, R-Studio, Helix and Backtrack. Also a number of file analysis tools such as Winhex, Ultra-edit, QVP, various registry viewers.

Sirius can help support HMG to achieve Accreditation of Systems in accordance with the Security Policy Framework, JSP440 and other relevant security documentation and guidelines.

To review and write, customers Accreditation Document Sets (ADS & RMADS) / Security Policy Documents (SPD) and verify accordingly with security reviews.

Sirius can provide technical expertise in electronic security, standalone embedded & distributed systems. Including formal Security Evaluation (ITSEC/CC), Project Technical Design Authority, DIAN8, COMPUSEC, COMSEC, Security Policies (RMADS & ADSs - DIAN7), JSP440, SPF, compliance testing & CESG policy to support security accreditation (Enhanced & High-Grade) for Government, & Military/Defence.

Investigate network anomalies in line with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) guidelines, through a substantial toolbox of products and services.

Full documentation and policy recommendations can also be provided through engaging with Sirius.

We can take the pain away from managing your software license agreements & maintenance contracts. More often than not time tends to fly by and the renewal dates seem to appear faster & faster, leaving no time to review & analyse whether the contract is clean or correct. Often we see clients just renew contracts because of time pressures without spending time reviewing their contracts. We are really confident we will save you a great deal of time & money here & give you peace of mind that everything is all in order. As a by-product of this analysis we can look at offering ROI advice back to you e.g. buying a new faster, smaller footprint machine which will be cheaper than renewing maintenance on old machines or, consolidate a number machines giving you faster & better performance, but still works out more cost effective over a period of time than keeping older machines running on maintenance.