Technology

Technology can be transformational in helping to deliver significant business improvements and yet it brings with it some of the greatest and fastest changing threats. With technology taking an ever growing proportion of corporate spending it now represents the major concentration of risk and reward for many businesses. Kingston Smith Consulting’s technology solutions are based on two principles, the need for high levels of technical skill to address technical threats, and awareness that many of the greatest losses come from ‘routine’ risks which are not addressed effectively. Our services include:

• Design and help developing business continuity solutions that are tailored to client needs and will work when you need them. This includes advising on strategy, impact analyses, risk assessments, detailed planning, data storage and back-up architecture, working with your third party continuity provider, testing and training.
• Identifying the major spending inefficiencies and cost leakage in your technology cost base. Where technology spending is reviewed by our highly qualified specialists they consistently identify cost savings without impacting (and often improving) service performance.
• Designing and building workable approaches to information security. We can review your current environment, including vulnerability and attack/penetration testing and provide sustainable solutions for your security infrastructure and incident response procedures.
• Reviewing your data architecture and helping you define how data is stored and managed. We also support the design and implementation of storage architecture and data warehouse solutions.
• Identification of the gaps between your technology operations and best practices, and provision of solutions to bridge those gaps. Our consultants are fully accredited with international frameworks such as ISO 27001, BS25999, ITIL, CMMI and PCI and have experience of making them work in real business environments.