C3 Security Consulting: When You Need The Experts

We provide services to small and medium sized businesses for securing information systems.

Do you need IT security? If you are on this page you probably already know why you need security. However, if you need examples we highly recommend A Chronology of Data Breaches for an eye-opening list.

• Loss of important information, such a sales data or manufacturing processes, can hurt the profitability of your company.
• Losing the same information to a competitor can be even more costly.
• Losing confidential client information can have legal consequences for your company.
• Losing confidential client information you are personally responsible is likely to be a career terminating event.
• Security breaches which become public cause loss of creditability with your customers.

These scenarios can have many causes; theft, viruses, espionage, employees, just to name a few, and they are on the rise. Whatever the cause, there are several steps you can take to prevent losses occurring and minimize the consequences if they do.

Why do you need C3 Security Consulting? We are focused on a very specific niche. After spending more than a decade helping to secure Fortune 50 companies, working with the top management consulting firms, we realized there is a chronic shortfall between home users and large multi-nationals.

We are dedicated to helping low technology companies who neither need, nor can afford, the latest cryptographic hardware, or a huge project team, extract the most out of the systems they already have.

What can we do for you? With our experience and training, we will provide services devoted to securing your current environment utilizing your existing resources.

• Secure your internal networks.
• Configure firewalls to protect you from the Internet.
• Secure your external connections with remote or traveling users.
• Protect your computers in the office, and
• Protect the laptops on the road.
• Establish automated, integrated updates and monitoring.
• Secure your e-mail systems.
• Reduce the exposure of servers facing the web.
• Vulnerability scanning.
• Windows and Linux integration.
• User awareness training.

For more detail select your area of interest from the menu.

We will take you through the process, from the first questions to final configuration, implementation, and training necessary for a completely integrated solution. It is our role to bridge the gap between your business and the security industry. By distilling the latest technology and methodologies we can provide maintainable, supportable, straightforward processes that will not require dedicated staff to operate. We understand that IT is simply a means to an end, and can be a costly, though necessary overhead. Our goal is to bring peace of mind to you as a business owner, and not another ongoing headache

Our staff has extensive experience in providing complete answers to security issues. We will give you guidance on existing systems or future plans. If you have the available resources you have the option of performing the work yourselves, or we will manage and execute an implementation plan with minimum disruption to your business.

However, a point to note, do not be put off by the complexity and scope of this site and the range of services provided. Think of it more as an "a la carte" menu. You know your business best, so freely pick just those elements you want. Simply because the service you need is in a list for a specific category, you can still elect to receive it in isolation of the others. Introductory Offer!

On the following pages you will find information on security issues. We aim to make this site a valuable resource that you will return to for regular updates. You will find related links and information on every page, helpful tips and guides, together with more detailed descriptions of security and service related issues.