Vintera Systems

Assuming you have just installed a security appliance, that the vendor claimed this small box can do many things including Intrusion prevention and detection, Firewall, Anti Virus, etc. But at the end of the day remain a question, how secure it actually is?

There are 2 ways to get the answer: one is to wait until the hacker come in, or do penetration test to your system. You do not want the first way for sure. Penetration test, probably with simple tool you can do it yourselves, but if it is that easy, wouldn’t that any cases of security breach today?

The question is not only whether you pass the test, but how comprehensive the penetration test is.

We can help perform penetration test both host-based and network based, using combination almost dozen of tools. Complement with manual assessment, fix and suggestions, we can give comprehensive report at the end of exercise.

For further enquiry, give us a call and tell us you want to know more about Penetration Test Service.

Outsourcing is the transfer of the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to an external service provider.

The economist, Adam Smith, says in his treatise The Wealth of Nations, “If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, it is better to buy it of them.” Outsourcing as we know it today is merely a progression of an idea that has existed since early days of trade.

• Cost savings. The lowering of the overall cost of the service to the business. Access to lower cost economies through off-shoring the wage gap between industrialized and developing nations
• Cost restructuring. Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from variable to fixed cost and also by making variable costs more predictable.
• Improve quality. Achieve a step change in quality through contracting out the service with a new service level agreement.
• Knowledge. Access to intellectual property and wider experience and knowledge.
• Contract. Services will be provided to a legally binding contract with financial penalties and legal redress. This is not the case with internal services
• Operational expertise. Access to operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.
• Staffing issues. Access to a larger talent pool and a sustainable source of skills.
• Capacity management. An improved method of capacity management of services and technology where the risk in providing the excess capacity is borne by the supplier.
• Catalyst for change. An organization can use an outsourcing agreement as a catalyst for major step change that can not be achieved alone. The outsourcer becomes a change agent in the process.
• Reduce time to market. The acceleration of the development or production of a product through the additional capability brought by the supplier.

We provide few outsourcing options which includes:

• outsource whole IT department
• outsource IT Security Team
• outsource new application development
• outsource maintenance of ongoing application

New trends of outsourcing is called holistic outsourcing,  good reading can be found here.

Early post mentioned that expensive commercial product can be over-killed. Imagine MS Word, world most popular word processing tool. How many of you actually are using advance feature of MS Words? The same thing applies for enterprise commercial product. Typical commercial product has the following characteristics:

• try to accommodate many of requirements in one product
• more complex to setup and implement due to many variables in accommodating diverse requierments
• locked in to vendor architecture an must rely on them to fix bug
• cost you money for licenses

In some cases Open Source product is more appropriate due to simplicity and its focus on 20% of the most important requirements.

In some projects this is what happen:

… and if this is the case, you bet you should go with Open Source solution.