Why Use Benchmarks ?
Audits & all sorts of measuring practices alone can not improve an organization. Improvements come from finding where you are and where the rest of the world is by an objective comparitive analysis. Benchmarks enumerate settings, views and actions that make your system better fullfill its intendded purpose. They are unique, not because they are based on hidden secrets but because they consolidate the consensus view of hundreds of dedicated visual and technical professionals worldwide.
Internal measurement and auditing services can at best give you a good idea of how you are doing compared to yourself a year ago but it will not give you a hint on how you are doing relative to your competitors. It will also allow you to plan specific corrective action. Benchmarks allow organizations to compare their self to market leaders and accepted best practices.
Independent !
Our benchmarks are designed totaly independent of any vendor influences or technology biases. They are aimed at providing what can be considered a 'meter-stick' for applications to be measured by irelavant of the technology or vendor they utilize.
System Audit & Usability Services
Simply put organizations cannot improve what they dont measure and analyse. Without measurements there would be no way to know whether certain policies implemented previously have had a positive impact. By measuring Usability, Availability, Security, Survivability and Scalability we help you obtain realistic customer point of view metrics. Metrics which can then provide an ongoing insight into areas in need of urgent improvement as well as areas revealing previously unrealized competitive advantages.
We then help you understand where you are in comparison to sector benchmarks so that a consistent and realistic improvement road map can be drawn out. This road map allows us to take specific targeted action improving performance bottlenecks and security risks for overall customer satisfaction, solid overal system security and increased internal efficiencies.
Simply put we help remove the veil in front of your eyes to see how you are performing from the view point of your users, relate the numbers to best practices and then help you improve on them. Our services can provide you with valuable competitive inteligence and help you better select your service provider partners by evaluating their real performance levels.
We provide extensive independent Compliance Auditing Services specialized in the following areas;
Usability Analysis & Auditing
Availability Analysis & Auditing
Security Analysis & Auditing
Survivability Analysis & Auditing
Scalability Analysis & Auditing
How Are Our Benchmarks Developed ?
Benchmarks are developed through a unique global process of consensus. Typically the benchmark development process starts with the review of published work or recommendations and move on through to the actual designing of the data collection metodology and statisticall review.
Benchmarks are also continously kept up to date as new technologies and vulnerabilities discovered through different channels. To give specific example of Security Auditing we consolidate multiple sources such as CERT, SANS, BugTraq, Internet Storm Center and Capacity in addition to software vendors.